Yahoo Mail hard to log in?
Bruce Davis
ayden at mixolydian.org
Mon Jun 21 09:34:01 EDT 2004
I noticed that I had difficulty logging into one of my yahoo mail
accounts from home (comcast). I got a network timeout when logging in.
However, when I connected to my company's VPN, I could get to this
account just fine.
This looks like Comcast has some routing issues going to some of yahoo's
mail servers.
I didn't try running a tracert to the server in question, but I will
when I get home.
Hope this helps.
Bruce Davis
Medford MA
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> Hi. Anybody know of Yahoo mail accounts being hard to log into for the
> last couple of days? I haven't seen anything about it (except for the
> Akamai hiccup, if that effected Yahoo I don't know) but I'm unable to
> view her browser based email. I can log into her account (I just
> changed her password) but still can't see her mail. It says "no data to
> display". Where there should be a whole bunch of mail (mostly spam).
> Just curious if the problem is only hers or it's effecting more people.
> ~ Could it be that her local problem and her mail problems are related or
> am I just being paranoid?
>
> What got me to this question was I over at her house about to use my
> hushmail account and noticed her cable modem light blinking furiously.
> I was viewing a static web page and thought maybe Bill or some other
> intrusive person was checking on their software (on her computer) and
> took a look at task manager. Nothing except for the browser was
> running. I check in her network places and see lots of data going in
> and out. She just purchased a new subscription to Norton antivirus. I
> checked for updates, ran it, nothing. I then tried 4 webbased virus
> scanners. RAV found nothing, CA found nothing, Trend found a worm, and
> Panda found two viruses. (I also tried a worm removal tool, her
> problems seemed to fit the profile of W32.Korgo.L, from Norton with no
> success.) Wow five antivirus products with different results. We saved
> her data to cd-rw (tons of music, I now have an excuse to buy a dvd-rw,
> just too much junk for the cd's). I told her that I think her computer
> now belongs to somebody else, and since she does all her banking online
> that she should change all her passwords to her accounts, keep an eye
> open for suspicious activity and USE LINUX. I am very happy to say that
> after work this evening we'll be installing Linux and I'll also install
> Samhain and watch it for her. After almost a year of me trying to get
> her to switch some cracker jerk has made the argument to her better than
> I ever could.
> - --
> - -Eric
> http://235u.home.comcast.net/
> "Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't."
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