Thanks for the thought but I was actually using a dsl line through Qwest
when I ran the original leaktest. I have also uninstalled and reinstalled my
OS so many times I have lost count. I also have a Dell desktop that is
running windows xp home 32bit that is having the same issues. I have taken
my laptop back to the factory image once and that helped for awhile. But
somehow someway they keep getting back on. I am very very careful when
Zonealarm sends me an alert to research it before allowing anything on and I
am pretty sure about the only thing I have allowed back in is Klink but I
cant be certain. And your right it is very frustrating making the choice of
who can come on and who cant come on. And I have outbound alerts too and
they consistently come from the same 2 or 3 ip addresses and wouldnt you
know they are part of the protected group or highly aynonomous On the
laptop I have been getting an alert that Justexe a Java update wants access
and I have always denied it. Interestingly enough since I started tethering
my cell after being on my laptop and then hooking up to my desk top for the
first time ever I got the same alert that justexe was asking permission of
course I disallowed.
Now I think this it is important for you to know that I DO NOT have a router
in my home nor have I ever. But my cell phone is picking up several
routers. Now I have walked the walk up to a 1000 feet trying to determine
if this is a neighbors router i am picking up. I have even talked to my
neighbors to see if they belong to them they dont and I believe them they
are all elderly and I set there computers up myself. Still I ask just to be
sure as they could have had someone else do some work for them. I dont know
where these routers are coming from but there appears to be one in the
master bedroom and the living room and the back patio. The one on the back
patio drops off after walking down the stairs and around the house. There is
a possibility that one of them belongs to the pool house I have not asked
association about that one but it seems very logical to me that is is not
associated with me in anyway.
I am trying my best to be as accurate with all of my information as possible
but you also need to know that I have been dealing with this for about 2
years so I have switched Isps a few times. The main reason I was prompted
to use grc.com is because I am in a court battle and everytime I tried to
contact an attorney they never got my emails nor do I get theres. If they do
get them they tell me they are trunctuated and for some reason I was getting
an alert that my mail was not being delivered that it needed to be approved
first by the administrator of another computer. Well that surprised me
because I am the Administrator and the only person to ever and I mean ever
touch my computer. I live alone. And it is only within the last 7 months
that I have 2 computers and at the time I received this alert I had just the
desktop. So I was talking a to an IT guy that runs community college IT
department . He recommended grc.com to me and that I run it in safemode.
Which as you know I did and that is a direct quote from that test "make no
mistake about it you are under attack by very sophisticated hackers"
I know you have ask me to write everything down verbatum and I will start
doing that for you. If you like I can even snap a picture of any alerts or
errors I get and attach them.
I have attempted to go through my logs and understand the errors but I have
to say I think this is out of my scope of understanding and I feel sometimes
more confused than before I began. But I do see an awful lot of RPC calls
that in my opinion have no business being there. I do know that there are
symtem RPC calls that are normal but I dont think some of these are system
initiated. I will go through them again if you like and give you the details
or copy you in on the all of the logs if it will help . My MMC seems wrong
to me too. I just dont understand why so many different groups have
administrative rights to my system.
Also as I said I have a few legal issues from my divorce that I am dealing
with. So I am trying to work with an attorney and they can not seem to get
any email to me. They keep getting an email saying I am rejecting the mail.
So I opened an email with hushmail.com that is suppose to have good security
but i opened the free version. I had transferred some personal pictures to
hushmail as my gmail account was making me nervous. The same thing my lawyer
said mail was returned. Now I really think thats because of limited storage
as it just offers 1 gb of storage. But as far as my gmail and the hushmail I
have my attorney listed as accepted contacts to get mail from. Still I have
received nothing. So I am going to send my attorney an email. hopefully she
will get it and then send me my documents and at this point who knows maybe
she typed my email in wrong. But I have checked every folder and it is not
in either account. And I deleted all of the pictures in my hushmail account
to free up storage So Ill let you know how that turns out. But it will be a
few days as its friday and a holiday weekend.
Also you should know that all of my email accounts have me listed as a
spammer. And I have many email accounts cuz I keep changing them as this
keeps happening. I am so very frustrated. And no matter what isp I am with I
am always saddled with a static ip I have gone into the command prompt and
released the ip for as much as a week before renewing it just does not seem
to help.
I am sorry I did not give you all this information up front but I really
thought you would think me crazy. Some days I almost feel like I am. LOL cuz
I just dont know what in the world anyone would want to use me as a mail
server. I have no money I am disabled I have no credit cards nothing to for
anyone to take of value. If I think of anything else I will let you know
but just so you know I am grateful for your help. I will implement all of
the changes you have recommended and get back with you with the results.
Thank you!!
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 9:52 AM, RogerX19 <helpmeroger@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>
> Renee,
>
> One very important thing to keep in mind is that you are "tethering" (using
> your phone as a modem).
>
> Any tests that you run over the Internet are seeing your phone as the first
> device, not your computer.
>
> This may invalidate any test results.
>
> The next thing you should do is to connect your computer to the Internet
> via a standard wired connection (maybe a friend's DSL line or something), or
> maybe via WiFi, with your firewall turned on, and then run the LeakTest
> again.
>
> Tethering software is not a direct connection .. it uses a conversion
> technique which may be confusing LeakTest.
>
> just a thought.
>
> rogerX
>
>
>
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Stephanie
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