Might flush windows dns cache incase its somehow gotten corrupt. open a CMD window from the Run line off the start button menu, then type in; ipconfig /flushdns Then if still happens, you might want to use windows search feature, put a check mark in the box for advanced. Search for the hosts file with no extension; HOSTS standard path is C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts right click and open with or send_to notepad. Its a special text file. Do not open it with anything other than notepad because when you save changes wordpad and some other text views add funny carriage returns and formatting which will screw things up. When you type in www.google.com in your browser, that needs to be converted to an ip number and windows will look in the HOSTS file first...then it looks in recent dns cache' which you just cleared,,, before actually asking your isp for googles street address. Anyhow,, in the HOSTS some less than honest exploits will redirect your google search to them from there,,,, so see if it has google listed in HOSTS with an ip number, if so just disable that line by adding a pound sign plus one blank space in front of it like this... # 209.62.176.52 www.google.net

I checked the Yahoo logo and it is very cute. Surprised that Google didn't have one today.

My aunt and sister recently had this happen, on different computers at different times via different web sites being viewed. Aunt said she was "on Google" and couldn't "get out of it" so she closed the laptop and called me ... but she's not very technical so no way to know what she was actually viewing. I ran Avast and Malwarebytes scans, her laptop was clean. No way she could understand how to open Task Manager and kill the browser if necessary so I told her if anything like that happens again that she "can't get out of" she should press and hold the power button until the laptop shuts off. Sister ran her own scans and I didn't hear anything further so presumably it also came up clean.

I use my laptop exclusively, I don't have a smart phone. And I stay logged in. And I don't often have all the issues others seem to have, but there are issues. Threads that I respond to, that I should have an email notification on, sometimes I do and sometimes I don't. I might see a couple of email notifications and then fine 8 notifications on the site. Yesterday, I tried to use the links on the left side of the page where I have selected certain forums that I visit on a regular basis, and they failed to bring me to that forum. I tried multiple times. I did find another way finally to get to that forum. And I'm looking at the web address window right now on this thread, and it is houzz dot com, not garden web dot com. And I arrived here by clicking the link in the notification window for the responses that have been made since I posted. But in trying to put some meat to some of the issues here at Houzz, I did do a google search for 'Houzz difficulties'. I did find links to some of the threads that have user complaints in them. I found a link to a report of Houzz being hacked back in 2019. Then there was a report I read in April about layoffs at Houzz. I also read an employee's account of being laid off without notice right before Christmas at some point. So more than once they have laid off people. April - 180 employees laid off From someone who worked here.... Glass Door Review From the perspective of one of the designers.... Houzz From my perspective, as a Gardenweb user, I find the activity on the Gardenweb forums is very quiet in comparison to what it used to be. I don't enjoy the way the website operates. I put up with it, is about the best I can say. And too many people find difficulty using the site. Sooner or later, people get tired of the frustration and find another place to frequent. Any company like Houzz, that is purported to be a 4Billion dollar company, and their entire business is an interactive website, should run easily and well across all platforms, in my opinion. And I really think they do not care about the Gardenweb forums. I suspect that they thought there would be a crossover of garden web users to the Houzz site and it's been a disappointment in that regard. So they care even less.