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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🙁

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    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]"?

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

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