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Virus stops me from Unicyclist.com

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  1. for the past 5 weeks I have not been able to get to this
    site while at work. I'm a unicyclist.com junkie. There,
    I said it!

    I look forward to skimming the forum at lunch to get
    the latest.

    Then 5 weeks ago, I started getting a message about "this
    site cannot be reached."

    Turns out it is a virus. I just have to wait until they can
    figure out how to get rid of it.

    Below is the text from an email message I got from
    tech support.

    Here is the information I get from our networking group.

    This is caused by the virus that affecting the whole
    school district.

    Quoted message said:

    The virus that we are having problem right now is
    attacking port 80. It might be caused by
    Nachi/CodeRed/Nimda... virus. This virus will


    do

    Quoted message said:

    a massive "HTTP port 80 get" and busy out the Content
    Engines. The users are normally getting the out of
    resource message when content engine is busy. As we cannot
    block port 80, we are trying to block


    the

    Quoted message said:

    computers that were infected by the virus and have SAIC to
    go to the

    Quoted message said:

    school site to clean the virus. As you know, the
    viruses spread


    faster

    Quoted message said:

    than we can block them. These viruses normally infect the
    computer that does not have the latest Microsoft patches.
    If all computers in

    Quoted message said:

    the school district have the latest Microsoft patches, we
    should not

    Quoted message said:

    have this problem. Cisco Engineer is trying to find out a
    solution.

    *************************
    Albert Antonious Senior IT Customer Support ITD - LAUSD

    It's good to know they weren't blocking the site as they do
    with others. Now I just have to wait. Arrrrghh🙁

    --
    teachndad - The Munieer

    Rod Wylie

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  2. There's always the newsgroup (assuming you have access
    from work).

    If not that, the email list. Is it still
    "[email hidden]"?

    --
    johnfoss - Walkin' on the edge

    John Foss, the Uni-Cyclone
    "jfoss" at "unicycling.com"
    www.unicycling.com

    "Hey, could I have some of that spinach? I need to get this pork rind
    taste out of my mouth." -- Ryan Atkins to Kris Holm, on the way back
    from Moab after sampling some of my pork rinds. They grossed out the
    whole van!
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  3. teachndad said:

    for the past 5 weeks I have not been able to get to this
    site while at work. I'm a unicyclist.com junkie. There, I
    said it!

    Usenet has rec.sport.unicycling: same forum, sort of.

  4. johnfoss said:

    There's always the newsgroup (assuming you have access
    from work).

    Yes and no. The newsgroup is always there but not always
    connected to the web-based forum. I have stopped
    complaining about it.

    Klaas Bil - Newsgroup Addict
    --
    Clearly a system of 1/14 and 1/16 is not decimal - Mikefule
    on the English weight system

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