I wonder how many of those 4.7 million customers were given free phones to initiate thier subscription? Maybe this falls under "bait and switch" legislation. Hmmmmm....
"Pedophiles and predators exist outside of the Internet, indeed many exist outside of the school itself so perhaps we should ban the sidewalk, the park, the cell phone, the coffee shop or anywhere that such people are to be found."
Of course the possibilities are endless!!!
A VAR in which I hire on occasion has proof that this has already gone too far. I hire this 40 something fairly obeese gentleman (from just over the border of a neighboring state) occassionally as a net security consultant. His first order of business is to circle my 'campus' and test wi-fi strength and vulnerabilities, and because he doesn't move quickly or without tremendous effort, he stays out in his minivan, jumping in and out of our gateway with his laptop to acquire and apply the latest server patches and firmware upgrades. He usually parks about 1/4 a city block away so as to not take up valuable retail shoppers parking spaces.
He found himself surrounded by four of our city's finest patrol cars one day because someone called in a suspicious man in a van with out-of-state license plates is hanging out near the playground. The playground is over a 3/4 of a city block away and around two turns forming an "s". There's not even a line of sight...
Too many bored housewives and (probably) nanny's watching Law and Order-SVU 24 hour marathons.
What's this world coming to when you can't hire someone to hack into …
"...sendmail[66440]: NOQUEUE: [12.*.*.*] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA"
About 3 days ago I had a reverse DNS problem on my sharehosted Appache that effected email system, and what I believe is how it authenticates users/clients.
Someone else used my IP in editing thier dns registration, most likely the MX records, most likely mistakenly. That statement is only a guess at this time, but read on.
In a reverse dns lookup my Ip was found pointing to someone elses domain name.
I've contacted the people involved. My MX records are clean. Nothing changed with my registrant. My external Host found that the PTR records had to be changed (and they probably had to edit thier own dns server). I believe I'm having an Authentication issue on top of my winproxy (filter/firewall/AV/AS) system also seems afffected... but maybe not.
My appache smpt access files can be edited (vadmin), sendmail seems to be running fine as I can use a third party web based (mail2web) client to receive, and the tests they do also work. It seems they aren't on top of this issue or have not experienced it before, but here's the gig:
1/4 of the systems that go around the proxy (straight through the gateway) access the Apache SMTP service and work fine.
The rest of the systems that go around the proxy just time out with the above error message listed in the maillog file on the appache.
Thank you TallCool1. It worked! And here's the process order...
* Run LSPfix. * Delete all Dial-up adapters and network protcols. * Delete all Winsock and Winsock2 registry folders. * Under Add/Remove programs uncheck all of the listings under Communications. * Reboot and then add back ALL the Communications items (although netmeeting and chat weren't necessary) It didn't work for me the first time as I have no need for a dial-up adapter, but it is the only way to get windows to add back winsock2. * Reinstall network protcol settings.
Thanks again... another day saved! :D (literally a couple of days of work)
Hello all. It's my first post here and the main reason I joined after using this resource to help fix a couple of other different issues. Thanks for your help in the past.
I'll try to be as complete as possible with the description of my problem. This machine is running win98se + IE6.02 with all current security patches and updates... except... read further. It also runs a 'trimmed down' version of sql7 as a visa authorization tool for a small subscription service which is the main reason I don't want to just completely reinstall everything as the personal data entry would be a serious pain in the butt.
After finding a number of spywares installed including "bridge", "webhancer", "wupdate", "keyhost", "version", "incfin~1" and "sahagent", and removing them with adware, spywarecleaner, spybot s+d, and deleting entries and .exe's/dll's using regcleaner and hijack in conjunction with a "blacklist" of programs, I no longer have internet access. I'm guessing it's because I accidentally deleted a necessary file. The Hijack scan log looks clean and no processes show running or in the way.
Some clues: * For a while, outlook was working while IE wouldn't. I believe it was after one reboot that it, as well, stopped. This could mean a file which directs these programs got removed (possibly a .dll) as outlook had already "got its instructions".
* This problem also affects a terminal emulator called Softerm Plus which I use to connect to a UNIX server. …
