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Skriven 2011-12-08 13:33:24 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
  Kommentar till text 23333 av Roger Nelson (1:3828/7.0)
Ärende: See what I mean...
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08 Dec 11 07:46, Roger Nelson wrote to Roy Witt:

 RW>>>> RN> Do you mean Microsoft Security Essentials?
 RW>>>> Yeup...
 RN>>> It has been working great here.
 RW>>> Along with a Router, there doesn't seem to be much else required.
 RW>>> My laptop stays connected to the internet 24/7 with only one
 RW>>> breakin from the outside. That was due to a misconfiguration of the
 RW>>> router and not the fault of MSE...
 RN>> Been there, but it wasn't my fault.
 RW>> That one was one of mine. Experimenting with open ports and forgot
 RW>> to disable them when I was finished.

 RN> When I had a DSL modem, the phone gurus told me that I had to open
 RN> all ports and could not open them by port number, which they strongly
 RN> advised I leave at the default settings.  About that time, they were
 RN> trying to sell me a combo router/modem.  The craziest thing of all is
 RN> that when I connected my router to the line and then the DSL modem to
 RN> it, they fought one another for control.  When I complained about
 RN> that, I was told there was no built-in router in the modem (yeah,
 RN> right!) and therefore, what happened could not have happened!  (-:  I
 RN> have U-verse now and with the RG (Regional Gateway), I am allowed to
 RN> open individual ports in its router/VDSL modem and can configure it
 RN> to accept certain incoming programs, plus I have a static address.

I have the same Uverse router. I do prefer to use a dynamic address,
rather than pay the extra expense for the static address.

 RN>> Someone at the AT&T server screwed up my settings.  I found the
 RN>> mistake soon enough and wonder how it was changed and why.

 RW>> AT&T can change your configuration at will. I had something similar
 RW>> happen, but I asked them to fix it and they needed me to turn
 RW>> something off to do it. I forget what it was now.

 RN> Then it's time I hid my screen settings of my router config on a
 RN> flash drive and disconnect it from the USB port.  But, my memory
 RN> isn't completely gone yet and I will be able to tell when they
 RN> interfere.  (-:

Like I said, you have to turn something off for them to do it. Otherwise,
I don't think they can change much without your cooperation.

 RN>> You wouldn't believe all of the account warning messages I've been
 RN>> receiving since October.  Some are so obviously and ricidulously
 RN>> silly that I keep forwarding them to the AT&T gurus, along with the
 RN>> full headers and all I get is more of that spam and and ACK of my
 RN>> complaints.

 RW>> Bit bucket time...Yahoo does that with my email accounts and I got
 RW>> so tired of telling them to stop, I have their software put their
 RW>> emails in the crapper by initially calling it Spam.

 RN> Now why didn't I think of that?

Dunno...

 RN> The warning messages don't ask for much; just the following:

 RN> User Name:
 RN> Password:
 RN> Date Of Birth:
 RN> Occupation:
 RN> Country Or Territory:

 RN> It is to laugh.

Are you sure that this isn't coming from a scam artist? It looks to me
like someone is fishing for your account info. i.e. AT&T doesn't ask for
your username and password, unless you initiate the call to them.

 RN> I would put in fake responses to all of those prompts, but I don't
 RN> like lies.

I'd tag it as spam and forget about it.


                R\%/itt


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