(Note: please read through, since it HAS A LOT TO DO with Lavasoft!)
I recently installed Opera 8.01, and by default, every time upon startup it picks up where you left last time you exited. It looks like a great feature... except when I tried opening a pop-up that got blocked, Opera just shut down and did so every time I tried to restart it. I uninstalled and re-installed Opera, and then I tried using their searchbar - one of the options is to search on eBay. Guess what... same thing happened. (Luckily, I tampered with the preferences so I won't fall into the same pit again.) I asked around, full of frustration, until someone told me to check my firewall. Norton AntiVirus did not indicate any connection, and then I disabled the Ad-Watch monitoring. "...and they lived happily ever after" - well, maybe not that, but same predictable plot: problem solved. Since I don't want to lose the great value I gain with Ad-Watch, someone please tell me what to do (except for deleting the specific address from the blocked URL list, since new ones are to come for sure). Thanks in advance!

This post has been edited by NotAnotherAliGFan: Jun 28 2005, 03:59 PM