posted on September 6, 2000 04:52:29 AM new
Mark -
I've had ZoneAlarm notices turned off for a whil, but AW's servers are STILL setting it off with their attempts to make a connection through a non-standard port. I checked the logs - it was you, a sprinkling of wannabee hackers from Outer Slobbovia and Western Elbonia, and a few botched handpfs as mu ISP did load balancing.
The firewall has blocked Internet access to your computer (TCP Port 2239) from 64.14.24.128 (HTTP). (that's you)
Occurred: 9 times between 9/5/00 21:51:22 and 9/5/00 22:15:28
posted on September 6, 2000 05:09:32 AM new
Well, you have company. Yesterday each and every attempt I made to click on anything gave me a Zone Alarm warning.
After the first 10 I looked up the Exodus IP 64.14.24.129 and this is what I found:
rwhois -h rwhois.exodus.net 64.14.24.129
%rwhois V-1.5:003fff:00 rwhois.exodus.net (by Network Solutions, Inc. V-1.5.3)
network:Auth-Area:64.14.0.0/16
network:Class-Name:network
network:Network-Name:64.14.24.0
network:IP-Network:64.14.24.0/23
networkrganization;I:Auctionwatch/Omnibot
network:Address-1;I:1875 Charleston St.
network:Address-2;I:Mountain View, CA 94043
network:Admin-Contact;I:[email protected]
network:Tech-Contact;I:[email protected]
network:Created:00-JAN-20
network:Updated-By:jill
I scanned my drive, deleted any thing that resembled a cookie, bot, spider, etc. and restarted my computer. Whatever it was I must have gotten rid of it because the alarms stopped.
This must be driving you nuts. Did Mark ever come up with an an explanation??
BTW: I have gotten into the habit of only accepting AW cookies when I get to the site and deleting them before I leave.
Yesterday I did find something, not quite sure what it was that I hadn't deleted, and got rid of it. It seemed to help.
Edit: Sorry about the smiley. Damm UUB converted the code to a smiley.
posted on September 6, 2000 06:11:10 AM new
Please correct me if I'm wrong but didn't the last thread end with Mark going on the offensive and issuing a formal warning to the thread's main poster (yet again bypassing the informal warning - consistency is not always a good thing) and then posting a totally undecipherable explanation.
With the prime poster gone from the thread it died. I don't believe that Mark ever posted that AW had stopped these denial of service type attacks.
Do I have this right?
Bill
typo
[ edited by cdnbooks on Sep 6, 2000 06:11 AM ]
posted on September 6, 2000 11:31:56 AM new
CMGI, part owner of AW, owns a huge humungous network of online advertisers. It is an empire in the building, and makes doubleclick look like a mom n' pop shop.
I suspect that ya all will have a continuing problem, as Dave Weatherall's R&D ain't gonna be incompetent like the Microsoft R&D is.
posted on September 6, 2000 11:51:22 AM new
This may help. A recent issue of Yahoo magazine had a tip for surfing the web anonymously. Go to www.anonymizer.com. Just enter the site you want to visit - such as auctionwatch.com - into Anonymizer's "Web Address" field and hit the go button to surf the web incognito.
posted on September 6, 2000 11:56:41 AM new
When you use the UNPAID free version of the Anonymizer, it takes a real long time for sites to download.
HOWEVER, thank YOU sooooo much for refreshing my poooooR patetic memory, cuz =====> maybe I will be able to access SELL on eBay by using http://www.anonymizer.com
It woulda taken me a while to recall that.
Also, there is a place called http://www.surfola.com and it is sposed to be totally WebTV accessible, and when surfing through Surfola, one is sposed to be able to access more sites, 'cuz the SURFOLA BROWSER is accessing the sites, NOT the miserable microsoft stoooooopid WebTV browser.
I lost interest in AltaVista and Lycos a year ago (I wanted and still want good search engines, not "portals" ), but the mention of eGroups caught my eye, because my spam rate went from 6 spam/19 months to 6 spam/4 days in the last couple months, and only two significant things (that I know of) happened that could relate to the address of mine that is now getting spammed 130 times more heavily: eBay got partnered with DoubleClick, and a list I was part of moved to eGroups (and I had never been on eGroups before).
Of course, it could be neither of the two above are to blame (i.e. a spammer may have skimmed my address from eBay or a very limited number of other places), but I found eGroups's being under CMGI quite startling. I'll have to look at eGroups's privacy policy a little more closely (for whatever that's worth).
Anyway, I'm probably rambling off topic now.
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What's being done in the name of direct marketing nowadays is crazy.
The above are all just my opinions, except where I cite facts as such.
Oh, I am not dc9a320 anywhere except AW. Any others are not me.
Is eBay is changing from a world bazaar into a bizarre world?
posted on September 6, 2000 12:15:14 PM new
egroups was purchased by Yahoo last week, so i'm gonna have ta desubscribe to them, too, just like i'm gettin' ridda my Yahoo email boxes. egroups now are splattered with banner ads, which fills up the mailboxes FAST.
posted on September 8, 2000 06:04:20 AM new
I got a letter from a techie at AW, asking me to observe some kind of app\tern.
FOR AN EVEN MORE OBNOXIOUS SITE ... Try UPS! They launched 45 attempts to access non-standard ports in a VERY few minutes when I was checking if they warned people about the brokerage fees.
posted on September 8, 2000 04:32:51 PM new
I have a question that is related to privacy..
a little off this topic but I hope you won't mind.
Does anyone know how a represenative from a major organization that is
the topic of a lot of posting on auction watch was able to get my
email address based only on my auction watch name, HJW. After posting
a few remarks about my unhappy experience with this organization I
immediately received three rapid fire emails. After this experience,
I started adding my email address to my comments. It must be common
knowledge anyway.
But I wonder how it's possible to get this info so quickly.
rganization;I:Auctionwatch/Omnibot
), but the mention of eGroups caught my eye, because my spam rate went from 6 spam/19 months to 6 spam/4 days in the last couple months, and only two significant things (that I know of) happened that could relate to the address of mine that is now getting spammed 130 times more heavily: eBay got partnered with DoubleClick, and a list I was part of moved to eGroups (and I had never been on eGroups before).