Crewmeal.....Ok, it can't be a long mile drive to your local bank, come on be honest.

Cap...Very true. I have a credit card that I use on the net for purchases. Just the one.

So far
 

Avast boot time scan - clear
MBAM full scan in SAFE mode - clear

Next hijackthis

Does FF differ from IE in the way it makes and receives browser requests/receipts?

There certainly used to be a difference in the way that FF and IE interpret HTML. FF was standards-compliant, IE was sort-of standards-compliant. To be fair to MS, that is less and less the case, as they have been forced to keep closer to the standards with each browser release in order to remain competitive.

SD

Yes, I am aware of those issues. It is the fact that I cannot access my router in FF but can in IE that is puzzling me. Just like those banking sites it is constantly 'downloading data'.

If it is of interest, here are the two requests:

FF
GET /dumprequest HTTP/1.1
Host: djce.org.uk
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Referer: http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct...59026428,d.ZGU
Connection: keep-alive


IE
GET /dumprequest HTTP/1.1
Accept: text/html, application/xhtml+xml, */*
Referer: http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct...59026428,d.ZG4
Accept-Language: en-GB
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko
Host: djce.org.uk
DNT: 1
Connection: Keep-Alive

You might find something useful here:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb...rtain-websites

SD

OK - I think I have cracked it (useful link, SD).

The problem was Zone Alarm. I initially tried removing all the FF items from the programme list, but a few kept 'returning' on re-run. I have now uninstalled the prog and all is back to normal.

I will try a reinstall but if the problem returns go the Win Firewall. Is the opinion of that satisfactory?

Re-install gives the same problem, so Win FW it is. Thanks for all the attention.

Tell that the the USA bank Mrs. ExS uses living in New Zealand.

Having spent an arm and a leg using an 1-800 number to ring from NZ to the USA via NZ Telecom, she tries to get a regular number, which we can call using a Calling Card for about 2c / min ( but not to freephone numbers )

"Can I have an Area Code and number to ring you, please ?"

"Oh, don't bother to do that, just ring 1-800 etc. etc".

"Can't do that from NZ, can I have a regular number please??

"Oh, don't bother to do that, just ring 1-800 etc. etc".

"Are you listening - repeats:...................

"We'll, next time you're passing, just drop in "

"Have you ever heard of New Zealand, and have you the faintest idea where it is ?

" Oh yes, that's where they filmed the Hobbit, next time you're passing just drop in"

At which Mrs ExS throws the phone on the floor and descends into hysterics.

( and no, if one writes to them they refuse to divulge - and one gets the impression that the nerd on the phone has no idea of any regular area code type number assigned to his branch. Wouldn't surprise me, Darwin, where art thou ? )

Happens time and time again. Getting borin'

That's kind of the reverse of my situation. When in the UK we dreeeeeeeam of 800 numbers and I spend ages on "Say No, to 0870" or indeed, 084whatever. I will NOT talk on those lines. It's lead to some very funny conversations when finally the phone rings in a manager's office at HQ. How did you get this number? kind of conversations.