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We have been alerted by a handfull of users of a possible Trojan that is trying to be delivered by one of the syndicated ads displayed on our homepage.
One user got a screenshot of the ad in question and we have submitted it to our ad agencies which run the ads on our site in an attempt to find the offending ad and fix the issue.
The trojan in question (W32/Trojan3.BT) seems to effect Adobe Acrobat 8. Newer versions of Acrobat are not affected by this trojan.
As always all data on our SatelliteGuys servers are 100% virus free and we employ three different services to continuously scan our servers. In addition our servers are ceritifed virus free by Mcafee and Norton.
This issue is due to a third party server and hopefully we have it resolved shortly. I am working on reprgramming the site so that the ads are not shown on the hompage until this issue is resolved.
SatelliteGuys urges all members to run Anti Virus software on their PC's a good one we recommend is AVG which can be downloaded from AVG Free - Download antivirus and antispyware software for Windows XP and Vista, this software is free and is considered one of the better softwares out there today.
Unfortunately we must display the ads in order to survive / pay the bills which is why we serve these ads from the ad agencies. As a thank you to our supporters (who also help us pay our bills and keep the lights on here at SatelliteGuys) don't see these syndicated ads. We thankour pub members and founders for their support.
In addition the site will be down sometime today for about 5 to 10 minutes as we upgrade our software. This software fixes a number of bugs and is a necassary upgrade.
Thank you for being SatelliteGuys (and SatelliteGals too!)
One user got a screenshot of the ad in question and we have submitted it to our ad agencies which run the ads on our site in an attempt to find the offending ad and fix the issue.
The trojan in question (W32/Trojan3.BT) seems to effect Adobe Acrobat 8. Newer versions of Acrobat are not affected by this trojan.
As always all data on our SatelliteGuys servers are 100% virus free and we employ three different services to continuously scan our servers. In addition our servers are ceritifed virus free by Mcafee and Norton.
This issue is due to a third party server and hopefully we have it resolved shortly. I am working on reprgramming the site so that the ads are not shown on the hompage until this issue is resolved.
SatelliteGuys urges all members to run Anti Virus software on their PC's a good one we recommend is AVG which can be downloaded from AVG Free - Download antivirus and antispyware software for Windows XP and Vista, this software is free and is considered one of the better softwares out there today.
Unfortunately we must display the ads in order to survive / pay the bills which is why we serve these ads from the ad agencies. As a thank you to our supporters (who also help us pay our bills and keep the lights on here at SatelliteGuys) don't see these syndicated ads. We thankour pub members and founders for their support.
In addition the site will be down sometime today for about 5 to 10 minutes as we upgrade our software. This software fixes a number of bugs and is a necassary upgrade.
Thank you for being SatelliteGuys (and SatelliteGals too!)
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Three people have reported it overnight.
After logging out and hitting refresh many times I got it to happen to me, so its not a Spyware issue (was testing on a Mac)
Going through our ad networks I found which one it was coming from and have been recoding to remove that ad network entirely from serving ads to SatelliteGuys. (This ad network has been having this issue too much lately and has been very slow to respond to these issues... I guess they are ok with these ads since they are getting paid and are slow to remove them... something I do not like at all!) So far I am about halfway done as its a pain as the ad networks are chained together.
I hate these things as much as you guys do and thank you for bringing them to my attention when they happen.
While I fully understand why people would use adblocker software I would urge folks not to (not that I can stop you of course) as with the economy the way it is ad dollars are not what they use to be and the cost of running the site keeps on going up as we keep getting more and more popular. But again I fully understand if you do. Also remember you can get rid of the syndicate ads by becoming a pub member for under $20 a year which helps to offset the cost of those ads running and helps us to keep the lights on for all.
Again I do work hard to keep the site clean so if you see anything like this please report it so that I can try fixing them as soon as I can. Hopefully by removing this ad agency the problem goes away.
Again my apologies to all who have had this issue.
After logging out and hitting refresh many times I got it to happen to me, so its not a Spyware issue (was testing on a Mac)
Going through our ad networks I found which one it was coming from and have been recoding to remove that ad network entirely from serving ads to SatelliteGuys. (This ad network has been having this issue too much lately and has been very slow to respond to these issues... I guess they are ok with these ads since they are getting paid and are slow to remove them... something I do not like at all!) So far I am about halfway done as its a pain as the ad networks are chained together.
I hate these things as much as you guys do and thank you for bringing them to my attention when they happen.
While I fully understand why people would use adblocker software I would urge folks not to (not that I can stop you of course) as with the economy the way it is ad dollars are not what they use to be and the cost of running the site keeps on going up as we keep getting more and more popular. But again I fully understand if you do. Also remember you can get rid of the syndicate ads by becoming a pub member for under $20 a year which helps to offset the cost of those ads running and helps us to keep the lights on for all.
Again I do work hard to keep the site clean so if you see anything like this please report it so that I can try fixing them as soon as I can. Hopefully by removing this ad agency the problem goes away.
Again my apologies to all who have had this issue.
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Continuing the Kilauea thread in the Pub here. Perhaps the Iceland one too next time there's remarkable activity.
Currently there is precursory lava flowing into the crater, leading to the next episode that'll probably start within the next day.
You can see the pace of inflation / deflation here. It serves as the primary predictor for when the expect the eruptions, which coincide w/ inflation turning into significant deflation and last for several hours on average with significant fountaining.
www.usgs.gov
View: https://youtu.be/Uecu2seh4b4
Wife and I like the AfarTV feeds, for the discussion along w/ them, though they're otherwise just mirrors of the official USGS feeds.
View: https://youtu.be/iws3rh5vLAQ
Currently there is precursory lava flowing into the crater, leading to the next episode that'll probably start within the next day.
You can see the pace of inflation / deflation here. It serves as the primary predictor for when the expect the eruptions, which coincide w/ inflation turning into significant deflation and last for several hours on average with significant fountaining.
Monitoring Data for Kīlauea
For more information on how electronic tiltmeters and GPS receivers help monitor the deformation of Kīlauea volcano, see the HVO Deformation page.
View: https://youtu.be/Uecu2seh4b4
Wife and I like the AfarTV feeds, for the discussion along w/ them, though they're otherwise just mirrors of the official USGS feeds.
View: https://youtu.be/iws3rh5vLAQ
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Since the Reds have there thread we should too!
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Not sure saving $24/year is worth it unless you're a hardcore Philo user. I'll stick with monthly.
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Oh boy, I can't wait!
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I have Dish with Hopper3. I choose to get local channels OTA and had a "guide list" established at my previous home. Having moved a few miles away, I wanted to update the list by appending a couple new stations via a rescan. As many would know, some stations come in with the UHF/VHF antenna aimed in one direction, while others come in better with a different direction.
Unfortunately, when a scan is done (bringing in 25-30 stations for that particular antenna aim), the dialog screen does not present the established guide list; it presents an empty field to the right that the scanned stations may be selected one by one and added to the empty guide. But because of antenna aim, some stations originally saved are missing, and would have to be retrieved with a different antenna aim. But as I explain, if a 2nd scan is done with a different antenna aim, the stations saved from the first scan are lost.
It troubles me that Dish didn't develop software that would allow a user to simply append only 1 or 2 channels to the established list.
Any thought on this? Has anyone experienced this or heard of this from others?
Unfortunately, when a scan is done (bringing in 25-30 stations for that particular antenna aim), the dialog screen does not present the established guide list; it presents an empty field to the right that the scanned stations may be selected one by one and added to the empty guide. But because of antenna aim, some stations originally saved are missing, and would have to be retrieved with a different antenna aim. But as I explain, if a 2nd scan is done with a different antenna aim, the stations saved from the first scan are lost.
It troubles me that Dish didn't develop software that would allow a user to simply append only 1 or 2 channels to the established list.
Any thought on this? Has anyone experienced this or heard of this from others?
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