[taiwanjohn]

I hope you all are running some type of virus scanner. There are a couple of new worms out there that have been released lately. The worms are email broadcasters, and flood the net with bogus emails.

This could be a big cause of slow response from the site.

I traced Rswarrior.com a couple of times while it was slow the last couple of days, and the response times were extremely long throughout every node. I would say every node was in the 400 millisecond range. SLOW. Actually, Rswarrior was running about normal, 100-200ms. So the net throughout has been slow.

I know you are all smart, and use protection[/emoticons/emotion-5.gif]

TJ

 

[NOTTAHOG]

Thanks 4 the info, I am a dial-up guy and I thought my new modem was slower than the old one!!

 

[islecruiser]

I,m using norton 2003.I dont know much about the technical side of it but was told its supposed to be good.

 

[carknee]

Just keep your virus definitions updated regularly!!! An out of date virus definition is almost as good as nothing!

My company has been getting hit hard since Monday!

I would also recommend that everyone who has their email addresses in their profiles on this site to remove them! There is a virus, which has been hitting my company, that will scan your computer for email addresses in cached web pages and send the virus to it! I would also not recommend putting email addresses in posts. It will promote spam!

 

[islecruiser]

Carknee how do you remove your email address?In the profile it says its required.Can we just erase it out of there?

 

[carknee]

isle,
That isnt what I meant... you are fine.

I was referring to people like RivaEric, PhatPerf, etc... those guys have their email address under every post. This will, with 90% certainty, have their email addresses collected by spammerz! And it raises their chance of being sent an email by the virus I was referring to.

 

[islecruiser]

Ok ,thanks carknee.