housekeeping note – Moon of Alabama

July 21, 2004

housekeeping note

Typepad, the hosting system for the Moon of A, is working on their SPAM protection.

Many blogs do get (Porn-Robots-)Spam in their comments, so Typepads effort is welcome. Unfortunately their implemention is not really good yet and it IS effecting the general performance. They are working on it.

If you post a comment, a screen may come up with some computer geek gibbish you may not want to understand. When you scroll down that page, you will see the comment you do want to post. When you scroll further down, there is some small grey picture with numbers and letters on it. Type those numbers and letters into the entry field next to them, click on “Post” and everything will be fine.

Porn-Spam-Robots can´t do this, You can!
So remember to scroll down that page – your comments ARE welcome.

Posted by b on July 21, 2004 at 20:25 UTC | Permalink

Comments

@Bernhard
I got this annoying “Instant Access” cookie that cannot be deleted.
Suggestions?

Posted by: Cloned Poster | Jul 21 2004 20:55 utc | 1

@ CP – don´t know that cookie, don´t have it, and never saw a cookie that can´t be deleted – sorry – can you forward me some info via email?

Posted by: Bernhard | Jul 21 2004 21:09 utc | 2

Al Zarqawi to Japan: “To the government of Japan: Do what the Philippines has done. By God, nobody will protect you and we are not going to tolerate anybody. Lines of cars laden with explosives are awaiting you; we will not stop, God willing.”…..to Bulgaria: “To the crusader Bulgarian government, which is allying itself with the Americans, and to the Bulgarian people, we demand, for the last time, that you withdraw Bulgarian troops out of Iraq or we swear we will turn Bulgaria into pools of blood if you don’t comply.”………to Poland: “Pull your troops out of Iraq or you will hear the sounds of explosions that will hit your country, at the time we choose.”

Posted by: Shaheed | Jul 21 2004 23:07 utc | 3

“Instant Access” appears to be a pr0n dialer, check your system for adware/spyware/trojans…

Posted by: fiumana bella | Jul 21 2004 23:24 utc | 4

test

Posted by: test | Jul 22 2004 0:22 utc | 5

test2

Posted by: test | Jul 22 2004 0:24 utc | 6

Just step over here sir, don’t want you boarding that flight unless we’re sure that you’ve got your box cutters with you
Video shows Flight 77 hijackers being searched at Dulles Airport after setting off metal detectors

Posted by: Nemo | Jul 22 2004 1:05 utc | 7

The soldiers riding in this hummer could easily have been some of the casualties of the Iraq war

Posted by: Shaheed | Jul 22 2004 3:22 utc | 8

@ Shaheed
They were.

Posted by: Nemo | Jul 22 2004 3:34 utc | 9

@Bernhard & fiumana bella
Yes, it’s a dialer etc but I’ve done the regedit and deleted, deleted in WE but it wont go away. When I do the uninstall programme on it, a new window opens asking me to download more stuff, which I decline.

Posted by: Cloned Poster | Jul 22 2004 5:25 utc | 10

@Bernhard, I thought you’d help with this damn spyware cookie that I have.

Posted by: Cloned Poster | Jul 22 2004 19:03 utc | 11

@Cloned Poster
– need a computing center build?
– need a nationl phone network?
– what to build a interactive DTV infrastructure?
There I can help.
– need to clean up a PC
Sorry, don´t know how and can´t reach the helpdesk.

Posted by: Bernhard | Jul 22 2004 19:11 utc | 12

@ Cloned Poster
Create a once off ‘yahoo’ e-mail address and I’ll send you a program that kills all known nasties dead. No charge.

Posted by: Nemo | Jul 22 2004 19:38 utc | 13

@Bernhard, thanks but thanks again for creating this web community.
@Nemo
daress2003@yahoo.co.uk
go ahead.

Posted by: Cloned Poster | Jul 22 2004 20:24 utc | 14

@ Cloned Poster
That should be with you now, good hunting.

Posted by: Nemo | Jul 22 2004 21:03 utc | 15

@Nemo
Thanks but the pop-ups still continue.

Posted by: Cloned Poster | Jul 22 2004 21:41 utc | 16

Cloned Poster – Thanks but the pop-ups still continue.
Had the same problem a couple of days ago, my son who is a tech, had to disconnect from the net, then do the uninstall program, regedit, delete files, reboot, recheck everything 2 and 3 times to get all the crap off my computer.
Persistance, CP. 🙂

Posted by: sukabi | Jul 22 2004 22:17 utc | 17

@ Cloned Poster
Sorry to here that you have a persistent bug, if you click ‘advanced’ on that new program and can recognize any strange name in your registry you might be able to delete manually if its disguised itself under another name. Have you run Spybot and Ad-Aware? First time I’ve heard of such a resilient invader but then we live and learn. As sukabi says, keep on at it.

Posted by: Nemo | Jul 22 2004 22:21 utc | 18

Cloned you’re probably sussed this by now but if not:
Instant Access Dialer manual removal:
Delete registry values:
Browse to the key:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Run
Delete the value ‘Dialer’
Delete directories:
Instant Access

Posted by: Debs in ’04 | Jul 22 2004 22:50 utc | 19

Or, get a Mac. 😉

Posted by: Kate_Storm | Jul 23 2004 0:11 utc | 20

@Cloned Poster
I’ll email you an article I wrote two weeks ago for my local newspaper. It should help you get rid of the crap.
@Kate Storm
Any browser other than MSIE would already help, especially if the system is kept updated, firewalled, etc. Macs are just as vulnerable, they just lack the user base to be exploited by your average s’kiddie…
Someone else’s opinion here
Mac Sasser?

Posted by: fiumana bella | Jul 23 2004 6:52 utc | 21

@cloned
Use Hijackthis It lists cookies, files and registry entries. Select the ones you want to delete. Use google to determine the nasty ones, removing the wrong things is damaging. Worked for me.

Posted by: Anonymous | Sep 14 2004 18:24 utc | 22

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