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Originally Posted by Nor
Lo fellas,
Had this problem for a month now. Every hour or so I'll lose the ability to view certain websites for about 5-10 minutes. Always the same websites. www.trickery.net , www.spv-guild.com (on i-websolutions boxes) for example. |
It is strange that the connection to the sites drops some of the time, if it was a proxy issue then i would expect you to never be able to access the sites.
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The fella on the bb helpline gave me a proxy to use. Think it was the luton one. Anyway, this bypassed any issues there were and things were fine. Been using it for about 2-3 weeks but the problem still persists if I don't use the proxy. I don't really want to keep bypassing the problem as using a proxy is a wee bit slower, plus it usually messes up cookies and stuff and sites don't remember that I'm logged in.
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Do you know which proxy it is that is causing the problem? try specifying each of the proxy servers in the glasgow area, and see which one allows you to get to the sites, and which don't. Post back with the results.
Specifying a proxy would not prevent cookies from working properly... I am currently at work with a proxy, and have no problems, and also at home i use proxies from time to time and have never had an issue. Regardless of which proxy you are connecting through, the cookies will be saved onto your computer, not the proxy.
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Anyway, today on the phone another tech is inistant pstrip.exe which is entech powerstrip (so I can kill the TFT brightness at night) is the problem. He did a search on symantic and found adware.PStrip so believes its the same thing, despite nothing on symantic saying pstrip.exe is a problem file and it also says powerstrip technologies and not entech.
I've used powerstrip for a couple (perhaps 3) years now and everything has been fine. Its a completely legit program.
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have to agree with you here...
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Originally Posted by symantec database
Results for: pstrip.exe
No results were found for your search.
Try changing some of the words in your query.
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Infact, when I got the tech to visit the website http://www.entechtaiwan.com/util/index.shtm he said it was full of dodgy pop up and he couldn't go any futher. I honestly think he's got spyware or something on his system as the site is completely fine for me, even with my zone alarm off. Something he said sir that is really unadvisable visiting that site without a firewall.
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that site has no popups on when i try it... looks legit to me.
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Anyway, I'm writing this while I'm on hold. I can't speak to his manager as he's 'away for a cigarette'.
I really do dispair.
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Any news after speaking to a manager?