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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.
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yesterday
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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.
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Monday
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Doesn't bode well for Avast, nor Symantec, whose certificates were compromised.
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Monday
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mueller wrote: The rest of you clowns are ...not employees. Who's the clown now?
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Monday
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.
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Monday
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.
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Sunday
*.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.
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Sunday
@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.
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Sunday
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@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".
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Sunday
@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.
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Saturday
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Might consider editing those images to blot out your SAN, which is akin to posting your credit card number on the internet.
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Saturday
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'.
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Friday
threedog wrote: The problem was limited to Outlook 2011 and Outlook 2016 for Mac. Webmail could be sent on all three machines. I use Outlook 2011 for POP on several different accounts. For reference, POP seems to be working on J2SDO068 from reply and/or original send, one of them being @Hughes.net (in fact maybe a little too good). I may be wrong, but I think GMail is accessed via IMAP only, at least that's how I have my phone set up for it.
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Friday
mueller wrote: again and no one wants to respond?????????????? I'm not a moderator and I'll respond. Have you tried doing a traceroute to see if maybe it's not HughesNet causing the problem? Nine times out of ten when you have a problem going to a specific domain it's a busted routing table. Sometimes this is from going to sketchy web sites. Sometimes it's from HughesNet's provider, one hop away from the gateway. A traceroute would let you know if it's local or not. If it is local, simply rebooting your modem, computer, and associated routers would solve the problem. Why all three? They all cache the routing tables.
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Friday
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GabeU wrote: Oh, trust me, I know a sub from Walmart is a far cry from any sandwich from a good shop, but I was tired. Really sad that Carnegie closed at the end of last year. Talk about your classic midtown NYC delicatessens. They were the benchmark.
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Thursday
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GabeU wrote: Nah, I'm the slouch today. A "Marketside New York Deli" sub from Walmart. Had to go shopping to refill my fridge Dude... If you've ever had a pastrami on rye from the old Carnegie Deli, the words "New York Deli" and "Walmart" would never be in the same sentence. lol
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Thursday
maratsade wrote: So does this mean the file is downloaded in two pieces?? Guess so. First file might be a manifest/installer of sorts. It comes down about twice as fast as the second part. Or, it could be that I've been using the full files for so long, that doing it from the device it needs to re-acclimate itself. Apple's weird like that.
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Thursday
Looks like I'm the slouch today... Beef Merlot Healthy Choice (steam bowl thing). Wife's at a parent-teacher thing (she's the teacher).
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Thursday
maratsade wrote: Zoodles (zucchini noodles made with a spiralizer) pad thai. Will look something like this: Love pad thai. Was a place in Santa Monica that's awesome. Guessing no peanuts, tho... 😔
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Thursday
@maratsade Hard to tell, since I'm updating apps differently now. That used to be the bulk of my Bonus time, but it's generally been ok during that period. Just got 46.2 on a 25MB test, which is about right. Main issue is the evenings, when we'll know.
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Thursday
@donsjgm Hmmm.... wonder if Solaris runs under Parallels... Even though I hate the idea of Sun being bought by Oracle.
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Thursday
I may have been premature about it downloading twice. The download circle goes around twice, but there's a pattern where the first time around it fairly quick, and I think the second time seems like is the bulk of it. Combined, the size of the download doesn't come close to what's listed, which is probably the delta file between the installed version and the downloaded version.
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Wednesday
maratsade wrote: My beam's evil and might actually go find your beam, mug it, and take most of its speedy broadband. So there. Hopefully 68 stops being a mug tomorrow...
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Wednesday
maratsade wrote: Um...what?? Why does it do that? Is it a glitch, or does the bloody thing want to make sure it downloaded right, so it does it again, for good measure? No idea. It's very bizarre. The little download circle goes around once, then it goes around again. Nobody is happy about this, or this new change. It's bonkers.
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