Please check in. Computer problems occuring everwhere. [Vanity]

1/10/2012 | By Lazamataz

[Lazamataz]

I'm starting to notice everyone -- and I mean EVERYONE -- having serious software issues. A website I manage is malfunctioning without decent reason; my home computer is acting strange; when I reached out to various friends, they are telling me the various systems they work around are all crashing. Even Emory (hospital) has had a major MedRec crash.

I'm starting to wonder if something deeper is going on. China, NorKorea, all our opponents -- any of them are capable of developing a 'quiet virus' that goes unnoticed by major Antivirus vendors. I wonder if we have been assaulted.

Please post if you are, or are not, seeing major computer issues in your neck of the woods.

[Mr. K]

The duck flies at midnight

Operation drown out the rat is a go

The hen is in the nest, i repeat, the hen is in the nest.

[Lees Swrd]

Sounds like one of your Shift keys is stuck.

[Paradox]

As a tech support rep, I have noticed an large increase in the number of computer virus infections (especially that da*ned XP 2012 fake antivirus). Perhaps this might be part of the cause.

[alarm rider]

The football is on the table, I repeat, the football is on the table.

For our French speaking friends:

Le football est sur la table.

That is all.

[sand88]

Call this woman. She will want to know that I am available for marriage.

Glad you have your priorities in proper order!!

seriously, five systems here and all seems fine.

[rlmorel]

Heh, indeed!

(What’s the frequency, Laz?)

[rlmorel]

Does it burn? There’s an app for that!

[Woodman]

I pretty careful, and everything on my network is clean. Honestly if someone had told me 10 years ago that I would have 2 desktops, 2 laptops, 2 netbooks, xbox, Wii, DSi, DSi 3D, Sony BlueRay, 2 Nooks, and 3 iTouch players attached to the net at the same time, I would have thought they were nuts.

[TheOldLady]

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[Lloyd227]

Lot's of silliness being posted here, but I suppose that's the nature of the thing. :-) ********* There DOES appear to be something going on, I manage a dozen websites or so, most of them hosted via a server farm in Plano and I use an application hosted on a cloud service in Kansas City. Over the weekend, saw all of them behaving strangely, symptoms of a DDOS attack, but no obvious attack coming through the firewall. IP packet loss went up extremely high on some domains, while other domains on the same server seemed normal. Some inconsistency in the ability to access certain domains that had different results depending on the geographic location of the computer attempting to get in (which was very weired). My experiences lasted about 10-12 hours and then cleared up as suddenly as it started. All latency and packet loss metrics just suddenly went to normal without explanation.

Never found anything to correct on our side of the firewall and gateway, tech support staff upstream said there was something going on "out in the wild" that was impacting their primary connection with the trunk lines.

Also so, on an internatl intranet at a large private company, certain network applications having similar issues, i.e. packet loss extremely high with no apparent cause, bad enough it rendered about a half dozen applications unusable for half dozen hours or so, then just as my servers did, just went away.

I'm thinking commercial grade high end network hardware with something acting up inside, but what do I know?

[Lazamataz]

Interesting. Packet Loss on a grand scale might be a test.

The internet was intended to survive a nuke war though, so... unless the concept is dedicated packet-absorption with some trickery.... not sure how it could work.

[wxgesr]

Lazmataz,

While there are no “hittable” pictures at teh link, there is a wealth of info to us mere abusers of somputers and their connections.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2012/0106/Stuxnet-cyberweapon-looks-to-be-one-on-a-production-line-researchers-say

[wxgesr]

I just realized I have typed your name incorrectly....left out an “A” please exude forebearance, sir.

Here is a good link to start with the USN cyber stuff....

http://www.facebook.com/IDCsync

[Lazamataz]

Interesting....!!!!

[Mycroft Holmes]

Just a thought. You can buy anything on the interwebs.

[listenhillary]

I think you are nuts. But I mean it in a good way.

I just have a Kindle, Desktop, 3 laptops, hard drive storage and a printer on my network. What is a DSi?

[Woodman]

Nintendo DSi Hand Held Gameplayer

[The Working Man]

Things are working ok here on Lunar Station Beta.

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There’s a Lunar Station Beta!? Damn it, we here in Lunar Station Alpha are always being left out of loop.

[Woodman]

Well, I also have a mass storage device, 2 set top boxes with DVR (FIOS TV is really another Internet device for guide and DVR services)and FIOS Phone Service (I believe this is IP as well) and some older hardware in storage I was thinking about turning into a LINUX file server, but even though I am currently looking for a job, who has the time to be an IT support group at home.

[OldMissileer]

Can’t get into Bank America this morning

Trying to get in at 8 AM when they open at 9 AM may be your problem! :-)