Little red crosses

[Matt]

If you are getting little red crosses where an image should be, read on.

A number of Personal Firewalls, such as Norton Personal Firewall, block ads by looking for images within a web page that match one or more of the "standard" ad sizes used by online advertisers. If a match is found, it will block viewing of the image. If you have such a Personal Firewall installed on your computer and are having a problem viewing some images in this site, please disable ad blocking or include talkphotography.co.uk in the ad ignore list.

To do this do the following:

Open Norton Internet Security, Click on Norton Antispam> add blocking> Configure> Advanced.

Add site, in this case 'talkphotography.co.uk' > OK> Add> Permit> talkphotography.co.uk

Click OK> OK> OK.

The user should now be able to see your site, if not they need to press 'ctrl+f5' for a forced refresh.

[matty]

thanks matt, have made it a sticky!

[Bob]

I have tried this and I am still getting red cross If you can tell me any other way to stop the crosses I would be gratefull
Bob

[matty]

what software etc are you using bob? and have you tried ctrl F5

[Bob]

Hi Matti
I use windows xp and yes tried ctrl F5 norton anti virus
Hope this helps
Bob

[matty]

norton AV, theres your problem! Cant help im afraid, i uninstalled it and went for AVG and Sygate, both free and much better than nortons

[Bob]

Thanks for your help. Looks like I will have to live with the red crosses
Bob:cuckoo:

[matty]

somethings blocking the images somewhere Bob, so check all your firewall settings and set talkphotography as allowed in all of them

[Matt]

Make sure you put the www. before the talkphotography.co.uk.

[Creed]

or if you have the same situation as me people are hosting images on general image sharing websites that are restricted by your company internet policy :)

[Atasuke]

Best way to deal with this is DON'T install norton internet security, it's a dumbed down version of their corporate versions which cost less and are much more reliant as well as efficient. norton series is full of clutter and actually creates problems. norton makes me gag lol

[dakid]

Some security/privacy products also muck around with your HOSTS file, so might be worth checking they're not redirecting some of the filesharing sites to 127.0.0.1 or something.

[mattyh]

norton = as bad as a virus IMO :lol: Try AVG, Avast, Kapersky (sp?), all free, and all good iMO.

[Toothie]

bullguard is very easy to use anti vrius / spyware and firewall softwere


used to have norton when i switched bullgard found over 300 problems that norton had no idea was there!

[Miss'B]

Im getting red crosses and I have AVG but its still not letting me do this :(

[shearersheed]

i read it and im using avg and cant get rid of crosses

[Marcel]

AVG anti-virus should have nothing to do with any little red crosses you see.

[martinturner]

Virus software will not be the cause of the red crosses. It will in most cases be down to 'firewall' software. Or if you are at work, the proxy that manages the internet will most likely be causing some restrictions.

[toonamp]

Your browser could be at fault, try Firefox, Opera or Safari.

IE is pretty useless and if you have AOL never use there own browser.

[towershot]

bullguard is very easy to use anti vrius / spyware and firewall softwere


used to have norton when i switched bullgard found over 300 problems that norton had no idea was there!

How much is the Bullguard Toothie :suspect:

[DaveBG]

I get them on interet explorer.... tried lots of things to get it rectified, with no luck.
Works fine with firefox though.

[CopeImages]

I had this problem on my laptop but not on my desktop.

Found this tip that cured it for me.

BE CAREFULL to follow the instructions closely and don't alter the wrong area. MEssing with your registry CAN cause big problems if you don't know what you're doing.

Quit Internet Explorer, if it is running.
Click Start, and then click Run.
In the Open box, type Regedit, and then press ENTER.
Locate and click the following registry key:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.gif

Double-click the Content Type value in the right pane of the Registry Editor.
In the Edit String dialog box, type image/gif in the Value Data box, and then click OK.
Locate and click the following registry key:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.jpg - If like me your entry here is HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.jpeg you need to type 'jpeg' in the bit below and not 'jpg'

Double-click the Content Type value in the right pane of the Registry Editor.
In the Edit String dialog box, type image/jpg in the Value Data box, and then click OK.

Quit the Registry Editor.
Start Internet Explorer and open any Web page with a JPG or a GIF image.

Your images should now load assuming your internet connection is good (i.e. on wireless networks)