that reminds me. i've been having issues with Yahoo and now youtube in Firefox on my laptop. seems to work fine on every other computer i use that also has Firefox. i'm having to use the IE tab add-on that i dled in order to be able to check my mail at Yahoo and get youtube to load at all. youtube says something about Apache. thoughts?
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tiggy - Aug 12, 2009 6:26:14 am PDT #10903 of 25501
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
evil jimi - Aug 12, 2009 6:30:27 am PDT #10904 of 25501
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
I'd be surprised if it is Gud. I'm running Process Explorer and TCPView by Sysinternals and neither are showing anything untoward. Moreover, I did a complete XP reinstall to try and fix the problem (to no avail, obviously), and I haven't reinstalled many programs since doing it, so I can't imagine where the malware has come from, or where it's hiding.
eta: Oh and Yahoo Mail is another really bad site. It can take many minutes to get to the login page, more minutes to get to the mail page, and many more minutes to logout. Yet it takes seconds to do the same thing on Ubuntu.
tommyrot - Aug 12, 2009 6:33:43 am PDT #10905 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Some malware/viruses now hide in the boot sector of your hard drive, so reinstalling XP won't necessarily get rid of these.
Gudanov - Aug 12, 2009 6:36:42 am PDT #10906 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
If reinstalling XP didn't do the trick, then I really don't know where to look. If Ubuntu doesn't have a problem, then that seems to rule out hardware. I don't know what to think, sorry.
Gudanov - Aug 12, 2009 6:40:09 am PDT #10907 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
My 8 port ethernet switch died last night. Stopped powering up at all. I decided to go ahead and spend a little money to get a D-Link 16 port hub. It's big and metal and comes with brackets for rack mounting. Maybe not the best deal around, but it feels like a real piece of equipment unlike my old tiny plastic 8 port switch that would sometimes start dropping connections.
evil jimi - Aug 12, 2009 6:54:53 am PDT #10908 of 25501
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
Which program is the best to find bootsector baddies? I've just downloaded MalwareBytes' Anti-Malware, HijackThis, and Spybot, plus I have AVG Free 8.5. Do they cover all the bases?
le nubian - Aug 12, 2009 7:44:45 am PDT #10909 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
jimi,
can you install adblock plus (a firefox extension) on firefox and open the sites on firefox and see if that improves anything?
tiggy - Aug 12, 2009 1:36:49 pm PDT #10910 of 25501
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
this is the page i'm getting when i put in youtube.com.
Bad Request
Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand. Size of a request header field exceeds server limit. Apache Server at www.youtube.com Port 80
meara - Aug 12, 2009 1:41:59 pm PDT #10911 of 25501
I use firefox and yahoomail all the time, though on a mac. Sounds creepy!
Typo Boy - Aug 12, 2009 7:21:25 pm PDT #10912 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Jimmi, temporarily turn off javascript. Try and get to the Yahoo login page. (Don't know if you can login without it, but you can get to the login page fine. Try other (non flash-dependent) sites that cause you problems. If they load quickly with Javascript turned off then at least you know it is not any malware advanced enough to hide from malwarebytes. Note: obviously since most sites require javascript these days, this is not a solution, but it is a useful diagnosis.