I am looking for some Farish spares and have tried to load a Website I have used before for such purposes - Peterssspares. However everytime the Website starts to load I immediately get re-directed to another page hosted by Yahoo, although I only use Google search engine.

Don't get it with any other model railway Suppliers sites - only Peters Spares.
Have run several Virus checks and everything appears O.K.

Can someone else on here try accessing their Website and let me know the result.

Works fine here - http://www.petersspares.com

Quote from: Tdm on August 06, 2014, 07:44:35 PM
I am looking for some Farish spares and have tried to load a Website I have used before for such purposes - Peterssspares. However everytime the Website starts to load I immediately get re-directed to another page hosted by Yahoo, although I only use Google search engine.

Don't get it with any other model railway Suppliers sites - only Peters Spares.
Have run several Virus checks and everything appears O.K.

Can someone else on here try accessing their Website and let me know the result.

You may have an issue if you try to access it with the spelling I've bolded in the quote above - they only have two 's' in the middle of their name...

Try accessing the website using the following link: http://www.petersspares.com/

When I tried a few minutes ago, the initial page took a while to load but I got in OK.

With regard to the Yahoo page you get, looks like your browser is set to go to Yahoo search when it can't get to a page, instead of throwing a HTTP 404 'not found' page.

Quote from: talisman56 on August 06, 2014, 07:54:12 PM

Quote from: Tdm on August 06, 2014, 07:44:35 PM
I am looking for some Farish spares and have tried to load a Website I have used before for such purposes - Peterssspares. However everytime the Website starts to load I immediately get re-directed to another page hosted by Yahoo, although I only use Google search engine.

Don't get it with any other model railway Suppliers sites - only Peters Spares.
Have run several Virus checks and everything appears O.K.

Can someone else on here try accessing their Website and let me know the result.

You may have an issue if you try to access it with the spelling I've bolded in the quote above - they only have two 's' in the middle of their name...

Try accessing the website using the following link: http://www.petersspares.com/

When I tried a few minutes ago, the initial page took a while to load but I got in OK.

With regard to the Yahoo page you get, looks like your browser is set to go to Yahoo search when it can't get to a page, instead of throwing a HTTP 404 'not found' page.

The extra "s" was a typo in my post - I'm still getting the re-direct, and I don't use Yahoo as I removed it from my search engines options list. It is Yahoo Espana that is coming up - and the URL of the page I am getting is :-

https://es.search.yahoo.com/yhs/errorhandler?hspart=gt&hsimp=yhse-gt&q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.petersspares.com%2Fimages%2Fnav-bg-png&type=800236

Bit of a mystery as to why I am getting this as my Google search works fine on all my other stored bookmarks for model railways. Just this one access that is causing a problem,
will have to check it much more carefully, could be that I am missing something obvious. 

Just Googled the site and went straight in, Terry.

Just cracked it!. It was a Browser "Add On" called "spigot" that was causing the problem.
It had somehow got itself installed on my laptop on the 1st of August 2014. Just "uninstalled" it and I can access Petersspares O.K. again. It was probably hidden in some software update I did on that day and hadn't noticed it till now. As I said in another recent post - you have to be very careful when updating software.

No problem here. Opened the site in seconds

One of the updates that riles me is the flash player update, if you are not careful and untick a little box that appears during install you end up with McAfee on your computer and/or your homepage and default search changed to Ask if I remember correctly.   

Quote from: Caz on August 07, 2014, 10:03:52 AM
One of the updates that riles me is the flash player update, if you are not careful and untick a little box that appears during install you end up with McAfee on your computer and/or your homepage and default search changed to Ask if I remember correctly.   

McAfee and Norton are 2 pieces of AntiVirus software that I wouldn't touch with a bargepole.

I am often asked to help on our complex when other owners have problems with their PCs, and one of the 1st things I do is to remove McAfee and Norton if they are installed and replace them with something like Avast or Avira (which are free), as it is quite often the AntiVirus software causing the problems.

Unknowledgeable PC Users often also don't do regular defragmenting of their hard drives and clearing out of their History and Junk files, and this can make a difference too to performance.

Quote from: Only Me on August 07, 2014, 10:47:56 AM
, you are mad if you replace Mcafee with Avast... I work in IT for a living and you are doing no one any favours by doing that...
Usually it's malware as I suggested in an earlier post... have you tried running an anti malware scan ?

Sorry to disagree with you - but I worked in I.T. for 30 years before I retired, and don't think I am mad - well not totally. Of course things were totally different then, including  Operating Systems and Programming Llanguages (I grew up with Mainframes - VME - Plan, Nicol, Algol, Fortran, and Cobol).

Personally I have Avira anti-virus on my Laptop plus Malware and other security check software, and use SmartDefrag to tidy my disks and prioritize files weekly, and run Malware checks regularly also.

My wife has Avast on her own PC and seems happy with it.

The only problem with using the Internet in Tenerife are speeds are not very fast as fibre optic is not yet available, and the most I ever get in terms of download speed is 2.5 mb, and sometimes without warning it will drop to 0.1 mb (I do regular speed checks as well).

Still the advantages of living out here far outweigh any disadvantages there might be.
Off for a pint of Carling across the road which will cost me all of €1 a pint.