Thanks Maureen and being.
I have the green onion saying Tor is connected but when I do a check it says nope. I've been thru settings and checked what my limited knowledge can understand but get cross eyed. I use vista (Lol..windows)

Hey thanks everybody for your comments. Unfortunately no link works with IE or Mozilla, I've looked around other sites but have the same outcome. i can't bring up Hidden wiki to try to access deepnet either. Some talk at other forums suggests Silk road is finshed, some say they are still open but not accepting new registrations, others talk about a new site but I can't access that either so I'm just going to have to die wondering. Thanks guys.
Forgot to mention I have TOR that I now refer to as Doh!

Does anybody here know if it is still running and how to get there? Just wonderin.

Fair enough, I don't like to wait but I guess it in some small way it  legitimises my honourable intentions.

Greetings everyone, I'm a shiny newbie 13 mins old trying to understand the bitcoin concept and get to know it by reading posts instead of asking heaps of dumb questions. I'll try not to be too lame in what a post if anything.