Bizarre problem with Internet Update and Yahoo server

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I went to update the prices on my portfolio as I usually do. When I clicked the Internet button, something really weird happened. Instead of retrieving updated prices, my system ran Internet Explorer (5.5) and went directly to a web page on Yahoo! related to one of the funds in my portfolio. The precise url was http://biz.yahoo.com/n/T/TWCUX.html.

What's even weirder is that if I minimized or tried to close IE5, it would just reopen that page, over and over. When I could manage to get back to FM, none of my investments appeared on the screen. If I clicked on the menu bar, instead of getting the menu, IE5 would just open up again. I had to force-quit FM. When I changed quote servers from Yahoo to CheckFree, everything went back to normal. Has anyone else had this experience?

I am using FM version 4.7.237, Windows 98SE, cable modem.

P.S. I see in my Preferences that that url I mentioned is set as my Web News url.

Replies:

• Re: Bizarre problem with Internet Update and Yahoo server Mark 19:04:41 01/30/01 (4)
  • Re: Bizarre problem with Internet Update and Yahoo server Tim 16:28:09 01/31/01 (3)
    • Re: Bizarre problem with Internet Update and Yahoo server Mark 21:45:34 01/31/01 (2)
      • Re: Bizarre problem with Internet Update and Yahoo server nawaf 21:05:14 05/14/01 (0)
      • Re: Bizarre problem with Internet Update and Yahoo server nawaf 21:02:56 05/14/01 (0)