Topic: Paranoia (Read 5844 times)

NJAntman · « **on:** April 13, 2005, 09:34:12 pm »

Been having a tough time making connections on the net recently, lot of Page Cannot Be Displayed and just today a lot of trouble connecting to the home page which for my cable connection is a very rare occurence.

Statrted looking around and noticed that the MS Automatic Update was set for Automatic Ever Day 3AM instead of the usual Notify Before Update. Reset it and tried to get the MS site to see what I had missed. First attempt at getting to "http://www.microsoft.com/" lead to "http://www.microsoft.com.org" some cheesy looking link site. What is up with ".com.org"?

Finally got to the MS site and ran a search for security updates and I had missed six. Set them all to download but one failed,"Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool - April 2005". A failed download?

Getting spooked so started poking around and spotted this in Security Center: Windows Firewall: Advanced: Local Area Connection 3: Advanced Settings: Services: dpnsvr(255.255.255.255.6073) 6073 UDP?

And also Security Center: Windows Firewall: Exceptions: found these settings checked off as blocked
artpschd (belongs to C:\Program Files\Common Files\PocketSoft\RTPatch\AutoRTP\artpschd.exe)?
Comcast_Video_Mail.exe belongs to C:\Program Files\Comcast Video Mail\Comcast_Video_Mail.exe)?
Support.com Scheduler and Command Dispatcher (belongs to C:\Program Files\Support.com\bin\tgcmd.exe)?

Anybody know what these settings are for? Anybody else having connection problems?

toasty0 · « **Reply #1 on:** April 13, 2005, 10:00:53 pm »

Pocket Soft: http://www.pocketsoft.com/windows/overview.html

Jerry

Darth Sidious · « **Reply #2 on:** April 14, 2005, 07:55:43 am »

If you're on Comcast High Speed Internet - check dslreports.com - comcast has been having DNS resolution issues nationwide.

I had to change my dns servers at home from DHCP DNS to a static one (verison i think)

Quote from: NJAntman on April 13, 2005, 09:34:12 pm

Been having a tough time making connections on the net recently, lot of Page Cannot Be Displayed and just today a lot of trouble connecting to the home page which for my cable connection is a very rare occurence.

Statrted looking around and noticed that the MS Automatic Update was set for Automatic Ever Day 3AM instead of the usual Notify Before Update. Reset it and tried to get the MS site to see what I had missed. First attempt at getting to "http://www.microsoft.com/" lead to "http://www.microsoft.com.org" some cheesy looking link site. What is up with ".com.org"?

Finally got to the MS site and ran a search for security updates and I had missed six. Set them all to download but one failed,"Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool - April 2005". A failed download?

Getting spooked so started poking around and spotted this in Security Center: Windows Firewall: Advanced: Local Area Connection 3: Advanced Settings: Services: dpnsvr(255.255.255.255.6073) 6073 UDP?

And also Security Center: Windows Firewall: Exceptions: found these settings checked off as blocked
artpschd (belongs to C:\Program Files\Common Files\PocketSoft\RTPatch\AutoRTP\artpschd.exe)?
Comcast_Video_Mail.exe belongs to C:\Program Files\Comcast Video Mail\Comcast_Video_Mail.exe)?
Support.com Scheduler and Command Dispatcher (belongs to C:\Program Files\Support.com\bin\tgcmd.exe)?

Anybody know what these settings are for? Anybody else having connection problems?

NJAntman · « **Reply #3 on:** April 14, 2005, 04:59:21 pm »

Quote from: toasty0 on April 13, 2005, 10:00:53 pm

Pocket Soft: http://www.pocketsoft.com/windows/overview.html

Jerry

So this could be a patch for anybody? Perhaps a legit program, perhaps not?

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