help

Anybody have a clue why i can't use smilies in my posts unless i shut down my security service ,i know it will be something simple like a setting, just thick as and don't know what i am doing

strange, Hob might be better suited to answer this, when you say security settings do you mean on windows or Norton?

I have virgin media's pc guard security running on the lap top if it helps antivirus pop up blocker and privacy manager if it helps

[Leasky]

dont smile them :-)

[arwilson80]

Are they all affected, or just some of them? I know there are 1 or 2 that are on Photobucket and the firewall we have at work blocks those ones.

[Southern Storm]

Being a member of the IT crowd I can confirm that the PCguard stuff you get with Blueyonder (now virgin) is really quite a poor product. Have seen all sorts slip past it and it block alot of ok stuff.
It is also a pain to remove if I remember correctly too.
So if you deactivate that the smilies work or is it just a security setting within your Internet Browser? (Microsofts Internet Explorer I would imagine you are using).

it is all the smilies and they only work when i deactivate the pc guard

Bump

[Southern Storm]

Uninstall PC guard.
start/control panel/add remove programs

Then go here to install the free anti virus program
www.free.grioft.com

Then go to
www.download.com

and search and download 'zonealarm' install the free firewall. Job done.

[KevG]

I've had no problems with PCGuard, works well if you do all the updates that it does.