FF question

hi yall,
when i start FF (Win9x & XP) sygate pops up saying FF wants to connect to news.bbc.co.uk i always disallow it, shut down FF and restart it, however on restart it usually asks to connect to HWF but it sometimes wants to goto bbc, it only ever goes to bbc twice

Its probably because you have an RSS feed (live bookmark) loaded which is trying to access the latest feed from bbc and HWFs.

how can you tell if an url is an RSS feed

sorted it by not display the default toolbar