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warren c. e. austin
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Location: Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
Registered: February 2003
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Three times in as many days, when clicking the link on the index-page of the site for this message board, I've gotten a request to download this file.
Anyone else getting this? What is it, and should I be downloading and saving it? Thus far I've ignored the request and cancelled the process.
God, how I hate having to activate "Cookies" and "JavaScripting" when surfing. In principle I never do, and won't ever return to a site that requires that I do. I have in this case because I really do like it here, and want to continue with my presence.
Web-developers really must come up with a better alternative to this intrusive behaviour.
Tim, disregard my last paragraph, as it's not targeted at you in particular, but at the process in general.
Warren C. E. Austin
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mt
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Registered: November 2002
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Why don't you consider adding the MB to you Favorites list?
Tim? Could this be a virus?
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tim
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Location: UK, West of London in Ber...
Registered: February 2002
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can you be specific with which link you ar eclicking? our server log records most events, and it will help megaman to track it down more clearly if he has more info. The .exe file is not one we have at all. The site runs with mainly html pages and some cgi and php stuff in th ebackground. No .exe files at all, so that is truly weird
I appreciate your distaste for things that lodge on your computer. I blame Bill Gates.
It IS posisble that the stupidly name module comes form the javascript banner for the gaywire message service. Frankly I am thinking of scrapping that since it never changes nowadays
Can you EMAIL details to megaman@iomfats.org of the precise problem, please. He maintains butnever reads the messagebaord. Its just not his type of thing.
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tim
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it may be any damned thing, but it is NOT a file resident on my server within the website per se, and I have never see it called. I do not invike it, nor do I know what it is. I woudlk expect an error 404 page to be pulled instead
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warren c. e. austin
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Location: Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
Registered: February 2003
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I have sent your "megaman@iomfats.org: the requested e-Mail.
I have subsequently been able to capture the file (or what I assume to be the file - it's once again and executable, but a different series of random characters) and on-ward transferred it to him by separate post.
A visus-scan of the file (it's 113Kb in size) showns no virus, but I have not taken the liberty of running it. It does incidentially seem to originate from your server, as (and I aspologize that I wasn't quick enough thinking here, as I related to megaman, to do a screen-capture of the dialogue-box) with the source path being:
http://www.iomfats.org/message/board/
Thought you should know.
I expect that I will hear in time from your friend.
If I get the message again, I will do a screen-capture, and I again download the file for comparision purposes.
Warren C. E. Austin
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tim
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Please grab all the diagnostics you can. As far as we can tell no such file exists on our server in any shape or form.
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tim
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Location: UK, West of London in Ber...
Registered: February 2002
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Please wait for a site operator to respond.
You are now chatting with 'Earl'
you: thi smay soud a stupid question. Does file named q3qkggm5.exe ring ANY bells with you. a visitor tells me it is on http://www.iomfats.org. I can;t see it, it isn't one of mine (I have no .exe files). Is it somethinmg to do with the server? Visitir says he gets it when he clicks http://www.iomfats.org/message/board (but that ain't possible)
Earl: Welcome to Bluedomino tech support. How can I help you?
you: "hi" by the way
Earl: there are posts on the message board referring to that file, but the file itself doesn't seem to be there
you: was wondering if apache etc had any component by that useful name
Earl: he may have some cookie in his browser that is causing that
you: Any suggestions on how he might check?
Earl: you can tell him to try running this
Earl: http://www.lavasoftusa.com/aaw.html
you: many thanks
Earl: Thank you for visiting. Please contact us at anytime.
you: cya#
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warren c. e. austin
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Location: Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
Registered: February 2003
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I had already run Ad-aware 5.5, but will re-reun their most recent version (plus signature files dated 2002.08.16), which I have just downloaded.
Some background on my surfing habits:
I always surf with both "Cookies" or "JavaScripting" disabled, with my only ever enabling either one, or the other, or both, should it suit my purposes to do so, and for no other reason. This is determined solely on a site by site basis, with them again disabled immediately before I leave the requesting site; I in addition remove all "Cookies" and other pointers that may have been placed on my system resulting from that request before moving on. At no time are there ever "Cookies" or residual effects resident on my system, over and above whatever has been requested on a "one-time" basis, once I begin to surf elsewhere.
Having the ability to control this behaviour is one of the reasons I don't use any Microsoft application for any Browsing, e-Mail, Newsgroup or Web-authoring function, none of which give me the comfort level I require to be able to use the internet and its' various services knowing that my privacy is being maintained. All internet-related Microsoft products have been removed each desktop client accessing the Domain Web-server, which is one of the reasons it took me so long to migrate to Windows'2000 on the clients in the first place, requiring three separate attempts until I was satisfied with it's stability after the separation of the corresponding Microsoft internet-related components.
It is for this reason that I use Netscape 7.x/Mozilla 1.x.x as my preferred Browser (and before that its' predecessor 6.x.x), Apache Unix Server on my Web-server and Host coupled with Lotus Domino Server for mail-tossing and compatability with our Domains use of Lotus Notes for collabrative messaging. Some users have independently chosen to use Eudora, Lotus Mail or PegasusMail, but none use a Microsoft application.
I use Windows'2000 for my family's desk-top clients solely because it's the best of its' breed, and at the moment I see no other truly viable alternative; Linux is getting there, but still awkward for most of my users to deal with. Windows'XP is anthema to any thoughts of ever again having control over user define sessions, and any future considerations about privacy, and whilst I installed it and tested it a number of times since its' release, it won't be finding a home on any of my equipment any time soon.
Anti-Virus facilites are provided at both Server and client level through McAfee, Norton and Sophos, with all up-dates automatically styled and delivered as issued with no user intervention required.
This is why I'm puzzeled.
I only get this at your site, and only after I've enabled both "Cookies" and "JavaScripting", and then only once every 4 or 5 log-ins at your Message Board, or when again sometimes when clicking on the link from the default index-page to get to the Message Board.
So I guess there's no way around this, I'll have to build a test machine (I've probably still got an old 486 board around here somewhere) and then copy this file over and execute it, and we'll see what happens.
Warren C. E. Austin
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warren c. e. austin
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Location: Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
Registered: February 2003
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I have again gotten this strange behaviour and as before have downloaded the file, which is as I write this being sent to your "megaman"; in addition I managed to capture a screen-capture of the request to download, but because of the size of the file (it was only 47Kb this time, I was unable to capture the file-source screen); I hope to do better next time, supposing that file name and file size keeps changing, with my again getting one large enough to keep the source-screen up long enough for me to SnagIt!
I only wish that someone else was experiencing this so that I wouldn't thing I was going nuts, or something.
Warren C. E. Austin
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