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And now you know the secret of SOR-we have a resident Wizard-blessed be he-who looks over the realm and keeps us safe.
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LOL!!!
Tim sounds awesome! 
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Bob (1938324), it was actually Roy who fixed your problem. We have a situation where you are doing something on Stamporama, especially if it is repetitive, where the server will think you are trying to hack the server and will block your IP address. It is actually a good think because there are people trying to hack into the server all the time and this facility catches them and blocks their IP address. I am actually the person who gets blocked the most. Roy and I have a kind of process down now. I get the IP address in question and send it to Roy who checks to see if it is blocked and if so unblocks it.
Hope that helps you understand what happened.
Regards ... Tim.
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Ah, all Wizard-speak. To us commoners the great Wizard Tim (blessed be he) and his wizards apprentices all serve to protect the kingdom. We are fortunate and blessed.
All Hail Tim and Roy, Wizards all.
With respect,
Dan C.
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LOL, Dan, you are crack'in me up!
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A bit more background for anyone who might be interested...
Networks, including the internet, work in ways that are similar to a postal system. To illustrate, let’s step through what happens using the postal system analogy.
The first thing that happens is the data to be sent or received is broken down into small ‘packets’; each packet has a small part of the total data that is being sent or received. This is true no matter what is being sent or received, an email, a webpage, a print job, etc. When the other computer sees the packets coming it then starts gathering all the packets so it can reassemble them back into the original data. One of the unusual things about this process is that there is no way to understand the route that the packets travel across the network. So if you send an email from New York city to Los Angeles, there is no way to predict how all the packets will travel across the internet. Some might travel through Chicago, some might travel through Atlanta. But the receiving computer does not care, it simply waits for all the packets to arrive to reassemble them in the right order. If the receiving computer does not get packets it expects, it will automatically re-request the missing packets from the sending computer.
You can think of the packets like an envelope; each is addressed to the receiving computer with the data inside the envelope. So, for example, when you opened this webpage, the Stamporama computer had to send your computer many packets. But the address on the packets was not ‘stamporama.com’, it was a numeric or ‘IP address’. The numeric or IP address of Stamporama is actually 192.95.23.182; so every packet that gets sent or received from Stamporama has this IP address. Every networked computer or device has its own unique IP address.
So what Tim mentioned above is that if Stamporama sees a very large number of packets from a specific computer, there is a threshold where it automatically blocks further traffic thinking it is malicious. An experienced hacker can ‘sniff’ a network, including the internet, and try to identify and grab the packets and reassemble them. While this is takes a bit of work, it can be done. This is where “https.:” comes into play. You can think of this as like tracked and registered mail. Each packet is encrypted and can only be unencrypted by the intended computer.
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I find that all very interesting, Don. I also find it very interesting that during my "problem(s)" time, I received one of those messages (from India?) that they wanted to fix the "problem(s)".
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Bob,
There is a very high probability that your computer may have some type of malware installed on it. I would highly recommend downloading the home, free version of an application known as MalwareBytes from the site at address http://www.malwarebytes.org/ (which will probably re-direct to http://www.malwarebytes.com/ ) which is a well-known, effective tool for removing malware applications from computers. Note that it should not be necessary to download and use the paid version of the program which tries to block malware in the first place (although if you are seeing recurring issues the paid version is a fairly effective tool for preventing them or at least significantly reducing them) but the free version works as an after the fact clean-up tool which is the most effective tool I have seen. Once downloaded and installed you should update the definitions, do a full scan, and remove anything the program detects as malware. I would recommend doing a full scan about once a month with the tool (or anytime you experience odd behavior during web access in particular).
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For the past week I have been unable to access the 6 Web Sites I use almost daily. I was unable to correct the problem(s). My wife was unable to correct the problem(s) - knows more about computers than I do. Our daughter was unable to correct the problem(s) - knows more about computers than both my wife and I combined. Comcast was unable to correct the problems(s) - with 2 techs at our house for 3 hrs. Staples was unable to correct the problem(s) - where I bought the new HP computer. I contacted Tim Auld. He asked for my IP address. I gave it to him - problem(s) solved!!! I'm relieved - and tremendously impressed.
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And now you know the secret of SOR-we have a resident Wizard-blessed be he-who looks over the realm and keeps us safe.
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LOL!!!
Tim sounds awesome!
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Bob (1938324), it was actually Roy who fixed your problem. We have a situation where you are doing something on Stamporama, especially if it is repetitive, where the server will think you are trying to hack the server and will block your IP address. It is actually a good think because there are people trying to hack into the server all the time and this facility catches them and blocks their IP address. I am actually the person who gets blocked the most. Roy and I have a kind of process down now. I get the IP address in question and send it to Roy who checks to see if it is blocked and if so unblocks it.
Hope that helps you understand what happened.
Regards ... Tim.
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Ah, all Wizard-speak. To us commoners the great Wizard Tim (blessed be he) and his wizards apprentices all serve to protect the kingdom. We are fortunate and blessed.
All Hail Tim and Roy, Wizards all.
With respect,
Dan C.
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LOL, Dan, you are crack'in me up!
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A bit more background for anyone who might be interested...
Networks, including the internet, work in ways that are similar to a postal system. To illustrate, let’s step through what happens using the postal system analogy.
The first thing that happens is the data to be sent or received is broken down into small ‘packets’; each packet has a small part of the total data that is being sent or received. This is true no matter what is being sent or received, an email, a webpage, a print job, etc. When the other computer sees the packets coming it then starts gathering all the packets so it can reassemble them back into the original data. One of the unusual things about this process is that there is no way to understand the route that the packets travel across the network. So if you send an email from New York city to Los Angeles, there is no way to predict how all the packets will travel across the internet. Some might travel through Chicago, some might travel through Atlanta. But the receiving computer does not care, it simply waits for all the packets to arrive to reassemble them in the right order. If the receiving computer does not get packets it expects, it will automatically re-request the missing packets from the sending computer.
You can think of the packets like an envelope; each is addressed to the receiving computer with the data inside the envelope. So, for example, when you opened this webpage, the Stamporama computer had to send your computer many packets. But the address on the packets was not ‘stamporama.com’, it was a numeric or ‘IP address’. The numeric or IP address of Stamporama is actually 192.95.23.182; so every packet that gets sent or received from Stamporama has this IP address. Every networked computer or device has its own unique IP address.
So what Tim mentioned above is that if Stamporama sees a very large number of packets from a specific computer, there is a threshold where it automatically blocks further traffic thinking it is malicious. An experienced hacker can ‘sniff’ a network, including the internet, and try to identify and grab the packets and reassemble them. While this is takes a bit of work, it can be done. This is where “https.:” comes into play. You can think of this as like tracked and registered mail. Each packet is encrypted and can only be unencrypted by the intended computer.
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Bob,
There is a very high probability that your computer may have some type of malware installed on it. I would highly recommend downloading the home, free version of an application known as MalwareBytes from the site at address http://www.malwarebytes.org/ (which will probably re-direct to http://www.malwarebytes.com/ ) which is a well-known, effective tool for removing malware applications from computers. Note that it should not be necessary to download and use the paid version of the program which tries to block malware in the first place (although if you are seeing recurring issues the paid version is a fairly effective tool for preventing them or at least significantly reducing them) but the free version works as an after the fact clean-up tool which is the most effective tool I have seen. Once downloaded and installed you should update the definitions, do a full scan, and remove anything the program detects as malware. I would recommend doing a full scan about once a month with the tool (or anytime you experience odd behavior during web access in particular).
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