[timwilson]

I am having one of the strangest Internet issues I have ever seen. I am running XP Pro SP2 with IE7, Firefox 2, Mozilla, Opera...... yes I am a web developer - one of many hats.

The problem I am seeing is on just one machine I have. I have one site that I cannot see images that are in a specific folder on the server - all other images are fine, and all other websites are fine. This website is fine on every other machine I have tried it on, and was fine on my machine a couple days ago. What makes this even more bazzare is that it is the same way on every browser that I have on the machine, and that if I look at the specific directory directly in the browser I see no file names. I can post a couple screen shots of what I am seeing if that would be helpful to anybody.

Another thing that makes this very bazzare is that if I view source the code where my image is called is flat out missing from the code, however the code right above and below each missing code is fine and it calls another image in the root of the images folder - and it works fine.

If I use ftp I can get to these files just fine.

I have scanned my system with Windows Defender, Spybot, Ad Aware and Norton and they come back with no viruses or spyware. I have also deleted all Temporary Internet files (but this is happening with all browsers so probably not it)

I have turned off my firewall, tried it with a wired and wireless network - one behind a company firewall, one at home, and one at a friends house.

I need ANY thoughts - this is driving me crazy!

Thanks,

Tim

 

[timwilson]

It took me a few days of trying things and giving up and back and forth.

What it ended up being was that I had installed a newer version of our corporate Symantec Client Firewall 8.7.0.58 a week earlier and didn't associate the two until I noticed I was also having some issues with good pop-ups not working correctly with gmail.com and Firefox.

I then looked at Symantec to see if some sort of pop-up blocker was installed with it and what do you think I found? Yup - you are correct..... Ad Blocking is set by default and it blocks Ads as well as Pop-ups. I turned this off and Firefox started working correctly. I had to completely reboot before IE would start working correctly but all is now back to normal.

I started wondering..... why did it block only certain images on this web page that I had designed? hmmmm - all the images that were NOT blocked were in the images directory and all the images that WERE blocked were in the images/ads directory and below - I guess the way Symantec Firewall's Ad blocker blocks ads is based on if the image is in a folder called "ads" - !!<sarcasim>WOW - that is highly technical!!</sarcasim> and easy to fix from a web design basis. The funny thing is that these are not truely even ads - they are images anouncing upcoming events at our church..... we just call them ads.

Oh well - the important part is that the issue is resolved - I just figured I would post what I found incase it could help someone else.

Tim