Ok, how many of the AOLers have dialup? How many have firewalls? I recently added DSL and a firewall. Since then I have not been able to access FreeBMD which I did before on a daily basis. I also have at the same time upgraded to AOL.9.0 Optimized. I can get the Home Search page at FreeBMD, but when I try a search I get an error page. That page refered me to a fix page at Norton and when I added the fix (you have to add freebmd.rootsweb.com manually to your web content) I still could not get thru. However, I noticed that the only pages which sent pop-ups thru were rootsweb before that (they are now blocked by both AOL and by the firewall) and the only thing listed as blocked on the default settings for the firewall was anybody trying to gather info on visited sites. Could that have something to do with it? I cannot get to any of the pages that were just refered to where I always could before. And that is after manually adding rootsweb.com and the helpdesk.rootsweb.com and passwordcentral.rootsweb.com to the webcontent page. What I find interesting is that I can still access ancestry.com and never had to manually add them to the list, but last nite for a while there they were crashing my computer everytime I tried to access them which I was quite determinedly doing as I was trying to answer a question about a particular census page from a couple of cousins. I spent most of the nite rebooting my computer. Then this a.m. the problem went away. Annie in Minnesota

I took the firewall off for the same reason. My computer tech said there was something through Microsoft XP that had a firewall, but you have to activate it. Since I got ride of the firewall and he activated the XP one, I have had absolutely no problem going anywhere on the web. And, I use Netscape and have opted to block all pop-ups. Works great. Lois