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Whose ports?

Ports as in internet connections. Standard web connections appeared to be unaffected, but newsgroup ports died, subchannel ports for multiuser games died.. Still listening to the reports of others, but it may have just been the Los Angeles area - I've gotten reports from across the Western US and Canada, but it appears most of the servers they were trying to access were in the greater Los Angeles area.

Not something that would affect most people, but in 15 years on the net, I've never seen anything like this.

1,247 posted on 08/10/2006 1:52:33 AM PDT by kingu (Yeah, I'll vote in 2006, just as soon as a party comes along who listens.)

Sounds like an ISP or ISPs shutting off access. Some new virus?

Can you explain why my puter and another FReeper's suddenly shut down a few minutes ago and restarted.

1,290 posted on 08/10/2006 1:58:17 AM PDT by mtbopfuyn (I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)