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rj_anderson

Testing?

Apr 17, 2006 16:17

I've just been through about 48 hours of not being able to post or even comment, and Blogger wouldn't let me post either, so I am feeling a wee bit vulnerable just now.

If it was a virus or a trojan as cesario suggested, I ran several scans and never found it. But this morning it got so bad that I couldn't connect to the Internet at all, so I restarted ( Read more... )

whining, computer woes

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greenhornet April 17 2006, 20:19:22 UTC

oh no! it's the killer mushroom trojan horse virus!!!

rj_anderson April 17 2006, 23:58:06 UTC

Run away! Run away! :)

kalquessa April 17 2006, 20:35:34 UTC

Well if it's any consolation that's a pretty icon you've got there. Where's the text from?

Hope your computer issues resolve themselves quickly and with minimal pain!

rj_anderson April 17 2006, 23:57:39 UTC

It's from the lyrics to "Runeii" by Talk Talk.

I love the text icons you've made, by the way. I don't think I've told you that before, but they're really smashing and I usually love the quotes too. :)

kalquessa April 18 2006, 00:00:31 UTC

Thanks, that's quite a compliment coming from you, oh maker of spiffy shiny square things!

infiniteviking April 18 2006, 05:40:13 UTC

Computers are mysterious things. *nods knowingly*

pbristow April 18 2006, 11:22:19 UTC

Sounds like either the modem or the router just locked up. That happens sometimes. Though without info on what the computer did *instead* of letting you post/read/whatever (i.e. error messages or whatever), I could be wrong of course. =:o}

rj_anderson April 18 2006, 13:20:28 UTC

Well, this is the post I originally composed to put on my blog after I found I couldn't access LJ (but then found out I couldn't post to Blogger either, so the point was kind of moot):

For the last 36 hours I have been unable to post anything to LiveJournal, either using the Semagic client or through the "My LJ" page. It won't let me post comments in other people's journals either -- it just hangs for about two minutes and then gives me a "server returned an invalid or unrecognized response" error message.

cesario suggested it might be a virus, since she had a similar problem a while back where she was locked out of her webmail. I've run my usual virus checker, AVG, but it came back empty. I also downloaded and ran a-squared looking for trojans. No dice. I tried using an online virus checker from Trend Micro, but it told me it couldn't install the necessary software on my system to run properly ( ... )

pbristow April 18 2006, 13:52:09 UTC

Hmmm... So for a while you were still able to download stuff from other places, eh?

Dunno. I get weird spells 2 or 3 times a day when everything using the network stops working except (usually) Azureus, and then a while later everything comes back... except about once every 2 or 3 days, when I have to reboot to get everything working again. I suspect there's something fundamentally buggy in the low-to-mid-level bits of the comms stack that come with Windows 2k, myself... =:o\