Originally Posted by Stranger

Actually, this is an interesting scenario. It may well be that AC did not change anything to their site but that somehow, a great many people inadvertently updated some browser component (with this "automatic update" feature, which is ideal to get viruses, spyware and the like). And that the updated browser component is broken, or that somehow, given that AC designs around the idisyncracies of the MS browser instead of the standards, some bug fix in the updated component broke the AC site.