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Grex > Info > #361: Grex System Problems - Spring 2004 |  |
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wlevak
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response 340 of 405:
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May 31 04:35 UTC 2004 |
IT appears to be down again
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wlevak
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response 341 of 405:
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May 31 05:26 UTC 2004 |
It's working normally now. Did someone fix it, or did it do it by itself?
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keesan
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response 342 of 405:
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May 31 16:35 UTC 2004 |
I am getting frozen connections again, when telnetting from grex to elsewhere.
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mcnally
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response 343 of 405:
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Jun 1 07:38 UTC 2004 |
lag, drop, lag, drop, drop, drop.
(my experience tonight trying to post two responses in agora..)
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twenex
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response 344 of 405:
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Jun 1 15:07 UTC 2004 |
An update on progress (or lack thereof) with the replacement dsl modem might
be nice. It's starting to get worse again.
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rcurl
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response 345 of 405:
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Jun 1 17:40 UTC 2004 |
Just got dumped from my telnet connection. Viva dialins....
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gull
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response 346 of 405:
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Jun 1 19:42 UTC 2004 |
Seems to have been down since this morning...at least, the two times I've
tried to SSH in, it's timed out.
How's the new modem coming?
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aruba
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response 347 of 405:
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Jun 1 20:49 UTC 2004 |
Grex is still off the net.
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tpryan
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response 348 of 405:
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Jun 1 21:53 UTC 2004 |
Login Name TTY Idle Login Time Location Work Phone
amishel anton mishel p5 17d May 15 02:31
newuser The Newuser Program p0 30d Apr 24 13:51
sgsg sg p6 32d Apr 30 08:12
tpryan Tim P. Ryan *qe Jun 1 17:50
tuks stalin p2 2d May 29 20:12
viju Johnson p8 14d May 18 02:28
Looks like I'm the piker with the short conversation.
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twenex
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response 349 of 405:
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Jun 1 22:02 UTC 2004 |
It's back!!!
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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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