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 I've spent most of the past couple of days in bed with some sort of sinus bug, so I'm a bear of little brain at the moment.

Get's to 6PM and I'm feeling a bit better, so I wobble through to use the net on my computer. Computer is showing the log-on screen, which means it's rebooted since I passed it mid-afternoon when I noticed the process that takes all night to run had finished and left the results to save later when I had more brain... The log-on screen probably means it installed a Windows update, but Kaspersky AV was telling me yesterday I needed to reboot because it had updated, so I did need to do a reboot at some point.

Firefox comes up as things reboot, and reports that it's updated as well, oh joy! Then the error messages start appearing. I think the Kaspersky stuff was just that I hadn't run through the 'Hello, am new wersion of Kaspersky" presentation and okayed everything yet, but I have no idea WTF is going on with Firefox, because about half the pages I try to look at are reporting certificate errors, and I know they're not valid because I can access the same pages on my Kindle, and in Edge (I hate Edge). On top of which it's the big internationally known sites that are falling over, not the individual user ones. I don't know if it's Firefox, Kaspersky or Windows, or some combination of the three and I really don't have the brain for this!!!

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Normally I use my desktop for eBaying, but that's out of action at the moment (fairly certain it's a dud on-off switch, but you have to dismantle the entire PC to get at the connector, and I've got a horrid feeling it's proprietary), so when I went to bid on a bargain earlier (£400+ worth of wheelchair cushion that eventually went for £62) I used my laptop, which promptly froze as Kaspersky tried to open up a safe browser window in Firefox. And of course the sale expired before I had time to troubleshoot it as I was trying to drop in a literally last minute high bid.

On further poking, Kaspersky seems completly unable to open a safe browser window for eBay. and I'm not certain if it can manage for anything else either. I've got a very plain vanilla Win 10 setup, and I'm pretty certain I've gotten in on the laptop in the past, so it looks like Kaspersky and Mozilla are back to playing silly buggers with each other, where each new version of Firefox screws up Kaspersky's interface until they can play catch up. There is a solution, I've dug into Kaspersky's settings and turned it off for eBay, but what's the point of browser companies urging us to have working security software if your browser then stops the security software from working?

Grrrr!!!!!

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