Thanks for the response.
This system had no previous AV. My cousin is a complete non-techno person. He thought the IoBit cleaners were protecting him.
I partitioned then used a clean USB install of win7. (it's a dinosaur originally built for Vista)
The link is to a wordpress blog for one of my security contacts through twitter.
The window consistently pops up (bottom right) and the nice voice says "threat detected"
I added the URL to the exceptions and sent it in as a false positive, yet still cannot get through.
I turned nearly everything off and still get blocked.
}http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/37987/hacking/kevin-mitnick-hack-fiber-optic.html{
I get the menu items then nothing.
I can add screen shots or a video if it helps.
It may be that the WIN7 is still finding and grabbing updates, but adding this specific URL should have fixed it, IMHO.
I have restarted and no longer get the blank pages.
This is happening in the latest version of Chrome and Firefox. I did not check IE.
I'll add the [more info] pop-up, which doesn't give more.
Thanks again for the time. All he does is check Yahoo mail and play on POGO.
Sk3