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Grex > Helpers > #132: Grex System Problems - Spring 2004 |  |
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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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gregb
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response 375 of 405:
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Jun 10 15:41 UTC 2004 |
It died on me while I was posting a reply. Consequently, I lost the reply.
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wlevak
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response 376 of 405:
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Jun 11 21:03 UTC 2004 |
Down again. "who" list a number of sessions that don't have normal ip's.
Should those be there?
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wlevak
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response 377 of 405:
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Jun 11 21:24 UTC 2004 |
I just did "finger" on all those strange ip's. Except for newuser, they are
users whose sessions have been idle for many days. Perhaps someone with
administrative authority should log them out?
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davel
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response 378 of 405:
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Jun 11 22:03 UTC 2004 |
Yes, it is down. I also notice the long idle times - is the zapper dead?
> 6:01pm up 52 days, 20:20, 7 users, load average: 0.29, 0.21, 0.01
> User tty login@ idle JCPU PCPU what
> tuks ttyp2 29May04 13days 10 7 emacs
> amishel ttyp5 15May04 28days 37 36 emacs
> sgsg ttyp6 30Apr04 42days 1 1 -bash
> viju ttyp8 18May04 25days 1:02 10 pine
> macraur ttyq3 Sat 4pm 6days 9 2 pine
> davel ttyt5 5:59pm 4 1 -bash
> newuser ttyp0 24Apr04 41days /bin/sh
42 *days*?
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krj
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response 379 of 405:
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Jun 12 04:11 UTC 2004 |
And, of course, the net connection is out to lunch again: failed
at around 4:30 pm Friday, after having been flaky all afternoon.
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keesan
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response 380 of 405:
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Jun 14 02:47 UTC 2004 |
I suggest forgetting 175-179 to save time.
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