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Grex > Helpers > #132: Grex System Problems - Spring 2004 |  |
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richard
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response 350 of 405:
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Jun 2 17:35 UTC 2004 |
Last night for a period of time grex's url's were pointed elsewhere.
www.cyberspace.org brought up a search engine. www.grex.org brought up a
different search engine. In the past when grex went off the 'net, you
would get a "page not found" or some other error. If somebody at grex's
isp changed its urls to pointers to point elsewhere, does that indicate
more than just a hardware problem?
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aruba
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response 351 of 405:
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Jun 2 19:03 UTC 2004 |
That sounds very weird, Richard. Are you sure your browser isn't infected
with adware? Sometimes adware will redirect your browserto where it wants
to go. What browser are you using, and what search engine did you get?
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twenex
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response 352 of 405:
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Jun 2 19:08 UTC 2004 |
That sounds like the most plausible explanation to me, too.
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scott
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response 353 of 405:
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Jun 2 20:54 UTC 2004 |
That or a localized DNS problem. A couple weeks ago I absolutely could not
get a connection to a well-established website for a couple days. Couldn't
even send mail; it would bounce.
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richard
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response 354 of 405:
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Jun 3 03:22 UTC 2004 |
well I did have some evilware that snuck in and installed itself on my hard
drive. But thats a side effect of doing a lot of websurfing. A lot of those
pop up ads on ad driven sites come loaded with hidden downloads. But I've
never had that particular issue at other times when grex was off the web.
Its an annoying bad habit of my computer that its supposed to notify me if
anything is being downloaded, but things still get by it and install
themselves anyway from time to time
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aruba
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response 355 of 405:
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Jun 3 04:09 UTC 2004 |
My roommate had the same thing happen to him recently. He had to boot up in
safe mode and delete some files, before they had a chance to run.
spyware.com was helpful.
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bru
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response 356 of 405:
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Jun 3 14:53 UTC 2004 |
My ISP is now checking mail, and they have blocked 4 mails perportedly from
Microsoft about critical security upgrades that they say have virus attached.
Is that normal?
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gelinas
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response 357 of 405:
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Jun 3 15:12 UTC 2004 |
Roughly speaking, yes, it is normal, bru.
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gregb
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response 358 of 405:
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Jun 3 15:16 UTC 2004 |
No it's not. If there are security updates, you'll receive them via IE,
either through Auto Notification or by clicking Update Windows in the
Tools menu.
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mcnally
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response 359 of 405:
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Jun 3 16:19 UTC 2004 |
Conflicting answers above can be explained as a confusion between:
"yes, it's normal to block them", and "no, it's not normal to receive them."
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tpryan
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response 360 of 405:
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Jun 3 16:30 UTC 2004 |
Normal to get them? Well, I was getting them on a regular
basis, until Earthlink learned they used less resources to block
the virus attached.
Using Update Windows is the better method for finding about
security updates.
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pgreen
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response 361 of 405:
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Jun 3 17:58 UTC 2004 |
This response has been erased.
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gelinas
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response 362 of 405:
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Jun 3 18:30 UTC 2004 |
Right; Microsoft does not distribute its security updates by e-mail.
Several viruses DO distribute themselves by e-mail by masquerading as
Microsoft security updates.
So blocking them is normal, and receiving them is normal. Even applying
them is also normal. However, applying them is not desirable.
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pgreen
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response 363 of 405:
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Jun 3 18:55 UTC 2004 |
This response has been erased.
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salad
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response 364 of 405:
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Jun 3 21:09 UTC 2004 |
Indeed, why not ^
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russ
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response 365 of 405:
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Jun 3 22:37 UTC 2004 |
I've been getting denials of access by both ssh (login refused) and telnet
(connection closed before the login prompt) since last night. Yet Grex
is up, and the DSL line is up.
WTF is going on here?
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russ
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response 366 of 405:
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Jun 3 23:33 UTC 2004 |
Grex is closing my ssh connections after barely a minute or two
of time on-line. No messages given.
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gelinas
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response 367 of 405:
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Jun 4 02:16 UTC 2004 |
No idea, russ; ssh works for me.
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tsty
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response 368 of 405:
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Jun 4 07:49 UTC 2004 |
working here ... better than the last few weeks, actually! kewl.
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fuzzman
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response 369 of 405:
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Jun 7 14:21 UTC 2004 |
Re: 354
> But thats a side effect of doing a lot of websurfing.
Not really. I surf all the time, and have no problem. I just don't use
Internet Explorer. I tend to prefer Mozilla 1.6, unless the website
requires a broken HTML and/or CSS parser, such as one would find in IE.
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gull
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response 370 of 405:
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Jun 7 15:15 UTC 2004 |
I like Firefox, which is really just Mozilla without all the non-browser
stuff. I haven't run into a website in a long time that I had to resort
to IE for, except for Windows Update.
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twenex
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response 371 of 405:
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Jun 7 15:29 UTC 2004 |
Agreement.
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gregb
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response 372 of 405:
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Jun 7 16:10 UTC 2004 |
I'll second that agreement.
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wlevak
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response 373 of 405:
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Jun 10 05:19 UTC 2004 |
It's down again.
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gull
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response 374 of 405:
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Jun 10 14:52 UTC 2004 |
So the new modem didn't fix things? Or was it never installed?
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