>>>>I have the following issue with IE 8 sometimes. I go to a page and all that shows is the advertising banner at the top. And nothing else. Obviously (I know since I can see it in FireFox) there is content below the ad banner but IE 8 does not show it. What could be done to correct this? Thank you in advance for any suggestions.
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>>>Do you have antivirus/antimalware that may be scanning content as it's downloaded, and stopping the page load because it's seeing something it doesn't like? Some security suites are quite aggressive e.g. Trend, as Jos pointed out in a recent thread.
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>>Disabling real time protection didn't help. And I noticed that when the page (where the ad banner shows) appears there is an error (at the bottom) quickly flashes. The error says:
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>>Webpage error details
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>>User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; GTB7.3; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)
>>Timestamp: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:07:06 UTC
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>>Message: HTML Parsing Error: Unable to modify the parent container element before the child element is closed (KB927917)
>>Line: 0
>>Char: 0
>>Code: 0
>>URI: http://blogs.elpais.com/paco-nadal/
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>On my system http://blogs.elpais.com/paco-nadal/ loads fine in FF12 and IE9.

I followed your suggestion (in the other message), deleted temp files and now this page is showing. But what I noticed that the content of the ad banner is different. Could the ad banner be the culprit?