On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 10:04:21 +0300, Opinicus
> wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 21:52:21 -0700, sf > wrote:
>
> >> But thanks especially for the alturl.com link. I've been looking for a
> >> replacement for tinyurl.com. For some reason I haven't been able to
> >> connect to them for several weeks.
> >
> >Interesting that you've had one problem with tinyurl, l because I
> >haven't had any!
> And neither, I discovered, was my wife on her machine and that
> finally got me searching for a solution. The problem it turned out was
> Kaspersky's anti-banner feature on my system: it was set to use a
> "common banner list" as the "scan method". I unticked that and now I
> can access tinyurl.com again.
>
> (I'm providing this info in the hope it may be of use to others.)
>
> Now to go look at Woot again.

It was a good deal... $100 less than the sale price listed on Amazon.

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