>>>>>>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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>>>On my system http://blogs.elpais.com/paco-nadal/ loads fine in FF12 and IE9.
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>>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?
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>Maybe the copy you had in your temp files was corrupted or incomplete. If so, it could be to blame.
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>It's also worth noting banner ads are often served by companies that specialize in that, to tens of thousands of sites. Bad guys are constantly trying to insert malformed or malicious ads into these networks; if they succeed they infect thousands of sites. Maybe MSE on your computer found an infected ad and halted its download, so you had a bad or incomplete copy in your temp files.
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>Yet another reason I use FF with NoScript; it gives you fine-grained control over which ( if any ) 3rd-party sites you allow to load content into a given page.

I know I should switch to FF but the current version (10?) does not support Google toolbar which I use a lot.