About MarkJFine

Sunday it was kind of pot luck all day. Monday night was absolutely horrible. Tuesday night it was ok. Wednesday night it was ok. Thursday night it's bad again.   I think I see a trend here... ... View more

...that is unless it wasn't "signed" as 32-bit, but I also thought you could override that. ... View more

It happens to the best of us at times. Hopefully you also saw the thread that said it was 32-bit compatible. Honestly can't understand why it wouldn't be. ... View more

If it's worth anything, I have a little iStat Menus thing on my Mac that shows the current instantaneous download speed. I don't know anything about the speed test on HugheNets's CMC or the one provided by xFinity (as if I'd trust Comcast for anything), but TestMy concurs 100% with the display in my iStat Menu every time. ... View more

@dfbeck wrote: Your concern over what your customers use for an operating system is touching. I guess that's as good a reason as any to dump all the older versions of the status meter. I'm concerned because this is a help site where customers help other customers. I don't work for Hughes.   That said, as I understand it, the application is completely written in platform non-specific javascript, so I'm not totally sure where the 32- vs. 64-bit thing comes from. ... View more

I realize it's your preference, but I have to tell you that xp is so vulnerable that I wouldn't even keep it on the internet for very long. ... View more

And you think each beam has infinite bandwidth? ... View more

unnecessary? I edited my response to address that. Please read it if you hadn't already. ... View more

Whoever told you that most likely said "For the first 20 days..." because your data caps are refreshed hourly, if not daily during that period to ensure the system is working properly.   As for getting rid of data caps, imagine if you will there's infinite bandwidth in a space-based system. It's not like you can just fly someone up on the shuttle and do system expansion on a regular basis. Then imagine if they don't, and people complain that their system is oversold because everyone on that gateway is streaming Netflix at the same time, bringing the acceleration system to it's knees.   ...This is why there are data caps. ... View more

It's a common problem that crops up from time to time when the modem starts caching data and somehow it gets corrupted - like, when there's a firmware update. The simple fix is to delete the cache/config folder located at:    C:\Users\<your user name here>\AppData\Roaming\HughesNet Usage Meter\ Just replace " <your user name here> " with your user name. When you re-run the Usage Meter it will re-generate the information there.   If you search the community you would see this is the most common fix. ... View more

My trap had been filtering about 60-70/day until the past couple of days. Today: only 32, and mostly from Alibaba/Chinanet/China Unicom. The rest mostly from onesy-twosy zombies. That's pretty significant. ... View more

@mueller wrote: Mark, get away from your computer and look for a woman............ Maybe it's time for you to just walk away. You came in here insulting everyone, then reclama'd to just include Hughes employees. Now you're back to insulting everyone, because we're not buying it.   This place is for people with HughesNet issues, not trolls. You have severe social issues and we can't help you here.   Edit: This thread serves no useful purpose and probably needs to be shut down. ... View more

Wut? ... View more

@mueller wrote: If you are an employee of Hughes, then you suck. ...said by someone who clearly never learned how win while at a disadvantage. ... View more

Marked decrease in spam in the last 12 hours. Amazing how that works... All of a sudden all of the open relays get shut down after a mass security panic. You'd think they'd be doing regular checks. ... View more

Doesn't bode well for Avast, nor Symantec, whose certificates were compromised. ... View more

@mueller wrote: The rest of you clowns are ...not employees. Who's the clown now? ... View more

Have seen some reports where the malware reports to something in the 216.126.x.x range. Would not surprise me if it's ServerCrate, which uses 216.126.224.0 - 216.126.239.255 in my spam ID list.   ... View more

Massive kudos to ClamAV. ... View more

Wow... Good to know.   Things like this is the single reason why I've avoided the temptation to use things like password utilities (like 1password) and such. That, and cloud-based things that make apps hand-off friendly.   All nice ideas, but as we know, that road is always paved with good intentions and someone's always out there looking for an exploit. ... View more

*.nelottery.com? Sounds like one I haven't seen yet.   Chances are that someone that does have your email address got their address book lifted. The only way to ensure that doesn't happen is not to use email at all, and that kind of defeats the purpose of having it.   Only thing you can realistically do to stop it, and have some control over it, is the kind of system I'm currently setting up (why I'm doing it actually). This is after tons of research on the subject. ... View more

@GabeU For all I know they do that, but I can tell you that 90% of the spam you get comes from only a handful of server domains. ... View more

@GabeU The trick is not to block the domain of the email address, those are forged anyway. The trick is to block the domain of the IP that the email came from. I'm building a pseudo-mini-DNS to do this that comprises a regex of the full range of IPs for that domain, a username for the abuse address (bfore the "@"), and the domain itself (after the "@")...   Eventually I wanted this system to return the favor by auto-spamming their abuse address with a forward of each one I get. That kind of backfired, since there are truly foul email servers that collect received emails to... you can guess the rest.   That's how I knew Comcast was hacked to do that some time back. I was getting ten+ back for every one I sent. You can see how that escalates exponentially if I'm "returning the favor". ... View more

@GabeU There are several spam types that use valid emails that were scraped from web sites or web sites that have used a script to obtain your addressbook. They do this so they can be used in phishing emails as well as to get you to click some other site or open some attachment that infects you with something really nasty.   Sometimes this is to make you one of the zombie horde, other times it's to install a keystroke stealer for when you login to your bank. Incidentally, your phone is not exempt either, as I see a tremendous amount of zombie spam coming from mobile phone systems.   I have had my own server and associated email addresses for several decades as I used to have a shortwave radio-related shareware business. The server has spamassassin, but it is sometimes very ineffective in what it ultimately does with it. As a result I've had to modify their spamassassin script to perform a multi-level spam protection based on whitelisting known email addresses, then determining whether anything else should go to the junk box or directly to /dev/nul. I still want things going to the junk box in case it's something valid that I later need to add to the whitelist.   Been working on collecting spam samples since April developing this (~4600 samples to date), and can safely say that in the past 7 days, after nearly 400 spams, I've had zero (0) spams leak into my inbox or junk box. 400 is actually a moderate level - I was getting close to 900 during a spamstorm in the last week of July.   After saying all that, I can say that I've never received any spam in my hughes.net account, since I never use it as a username for anything other than my Hughes account(s). If you're going to use it as a honeypot, expect to get stung. ... View more

Might consider editing those images to blot out your SAN, which is akin to posting your credit card number on the internet. ... View more

Only 70?   Chances are you've used your email to sign up for something and they've sold their email list, you've posted it somewhere on an open message board and it was scraped, or it was obtained by some other means.   Sometimes all of the spam sources go into overdrive, and they have been ramping up for about a week now, but nothing like the zombie spam storm at the end of July/beginning of August.   I can tell you that the majority of it is coming from unsecured servers in China, Vietnam, Brazil (Claro), Russia (lucky.net), Germany (MyLoc) and the US (Nexeon Tech, Eonix, Interserver). Blocking anything coming from those IP groups kills about 90% of it. The rest (mostly the drug and sex ones) come from people with infected phones and computers that are spamming unbeknownst to them upon command, hence the term 'zombie spam'. ... View more