drd333 Posted October 18, 2004 Share Posted October 18, 2004 First off I'm a Mac user running System 10.2.6 Something strange is happening. When trying to log on to the internet this morning for some reason I kept getting Authorization Failed - changed the password in the PPP, nothing, tried a few other passwords, nothing, then finally tried the password that I know is correct (but was all of the sudden being refused) and it worked. But now strange things seem to be happening and my radar is perked - I can not seem to get open any of my web sites - I can not access the site I have hosted here on TCH nor can I get access to web sites that are hosted with another company.... I seem to be able to access everything else. What happens is that I get a timeout when trying to connect to my web sites. I just have a strange feeling that something funky is happening with my passwords... Any ideas??? Any suggestions??? What is the best spyware remover for a Mac??? I don't want to log into any password protected sites until I know what's happening here.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Andy Posted October 18, 2004 Share Posted October 18, 2004 Hi, You may just be having problems due to the routing issues that there are in various parts of teh US at the moment. I large number of people are having problems getting to some sites. So it may not be a spyware issue.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drd333 Posted October 18, 2004 Author Share Posted October 18, 2004 Thanks Andy! After typing all that I checked my sites, for the millionth time today, and of course they were fine.... I still would like to find something to remove any Spyware that has possibly found it's way onto my computer... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madmanmcp Posted October 18, 2004 Share Posted October 18, 2004 From What I hear there is a major backbone outage at Level 3 and is affecting the eastern US. Get ready for lots of these problems Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madmanmcp Posted October 18, 2004 Share Posted October 18, 2004 I would recommend Adaware and SpyBot, which are free. h_tp://www.download.com/3000-2144-10045910.html h_tp://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeJ Posted October 18, 2004 Share Posted October 18, 2004 drd333 is on a Mac. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madmanmcp Posted October 18, 2004 Share Posted October 18, 2004 oops, thanks Mike, I blew right by that fact. Guess I better pay attention to my monitoring and leave the notes here alone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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