News Supscriptions Disappear
Ray
using NN4.75 and Windows 95b. My ISP is Earthlink. Recently when I
open the news reader in NN all of the subscriptions in my
news.earthlink.net server are not there. The server is listed but there
is no + sign by it and no access to any of the subscribed groups. If I
look at the folder in C:\Program Files\Netscape\Users\ray\News\ I see
the news.earthlink.net folder and when I open that folder there are all
the newsgroups I have subscribed to. At the same time other servers
where I have subscriptions show up with the + sign and all the
subscriptions showing in the news reader. AND, at the same time other
servers where I have subscriptions do not show up in the news reader at
all. If I re-subscribe they will show up for that session (untill I
close and reopen NN) Same is true for the group (news.earthlink.net)
that shows in the reader but with no +. It, too, works fine for that
session if I re-resubscribe to the groups that I am already subscribed
to. I have opened the file "hostinfo.dat" within the folders on
C:\Pro... and compared the layout of that same file between the ones
that work and the ones that don't work and find no difference. I have
looked at all the settings in Edit>Preferences and do not see any
possible cause there. Heeeeeeeeelp! Any suggestions are welcome.
Please post to the newsgroup.
Thanks in advance for any help,
--
Ray :-)
Antispam: remove the numbers to reply.
kevin kenney
changing Communicator's location.
Netscape's pointer files don't get upgraded to the new directories.
Text files in your Users directory may need to be manually changed to
the new directory. (Such as the file FAT under News for newsgroups).
Ed Langley
I have a VIRUS, that sends a message exactly one minute later, with NO subject
matter in the subject line, and has changing titles, such as--
( I always send myself a CC of all email I send out)
---------------------------------------------------------
Subject:
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 11:52:23 -0800
From: <ed-...@home.com>
Protect_your_credit.HTML.pif
Name: Protect_your_credit.HTML.pif
Type: Shortcut to MS-DOS Program
(application/x-unknown-content-type-piffile)
Encoding: base64
----------------------------------------------------
Subject:
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 16:01:53 -0800
From: <ed-...@home.com>
JIMI_HMNDRIX.MP3.pif
Name: JIMI_HMNDRIX.MP3.pif
Type: Shortcut to MS-DOS Program
(application/x-unknown-content-type-piffile)
Encoding: base64
-----------------------------------------------------
TODAY, 2-26 the subject has changed to
Subject:
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 21:41:10 -0800
From: <ed-...@home.com>
HANSON.SCR
Name: HANSON.SCR
Type: Screen Saver
(application/x-unknown-content-type-scrfile)
Encoding: base64
=======================================
>>>> Notice it is NO LONGER a pif file? <<<<
Notice how the title changes? The pattern varies, but usually it
will go 3 - 4 times before changing.
Incidentally, I DO NOT have a Jimi Hendrix mp3 in my system. One
other day the title was
ME_NUDE_AVI.pif and FREE_XXX_SITES.txt.pif -a friend called
me and said it wiped out his address book, and corrupted his access to @home
internet
(cable) which he had to call their techs to get reconnected. I'm a 63 year
old retired guy,
and while I have a couple years experience surfing the net, I'm certainly not
an expert.
I have a SONY VAIO desktop, bought 10/97 on Windows 95b, added to 96 SDRAM
and a 10 g harddrive 2 years ago.
I appreciate any advice you can give.
IMPORTANT- The VIRUS is NOT sent
through YAHOO- only from my Netscape INBOX-
Thanks. Ed Langley ed6...@yahoo.com
===========================================
at about.com --
http://windows.about.com/compute/windows/library/weekly/aa030200a.htm
NETSCAPE caused a stack fault in module <unknown> at 0000:10027573.
Registers:
EAX=65656661 CS=0157 EIP=10027573 EFLGS=00010246
EBX=00000000 SS=015f ESP=00a42000 EBP=0fc25971
ECX=000000b8 DS=015f ESI=00bf23a8 FS=0e47
EDX=000000c0 ES=015f EDI=1002740e GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
e8 fb ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Stack dump:
10027578 10027578 10027578 10027578 10027578 10027578 10027578 10027578
10027578 10027578 10027578 10027578 10027578 10027578 10027578 10027578
------------------------------------
then immediately on closing that--
TALKBACK caused an invalid page fault in
module TALKBACK.EXE at 0157:00410b09.
Registers:
EAX=007a1153 CS=0157 EIP=00410b09 EFLGS=00010206
EBX=00000000 SS=015f ESP=0067f82c EBP=0067f838
ECX=007a0970 DS=015f ESI=007a1195 FS=7037
EDX=bffc1470 ES=015f EDI=00000000 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
8a 07 ff 75 0c 88 45 08 47 e8 aa ff ff ff 59 8a
Stack dump:
00000000 007a0970 00000000 0067f860 0041233e 007a1194 00000053 00000002
007a0970 00411fac 00000000 0067f868 007a3be0 007a0970 0040eaeb 00000000
--------------------------------------
then opened Opera 3.1-
OPERA caused a stack fault in module <unknown> at 0000:00000003.
Registers:
EAX=10b61bbb CS=0157 EIP=00000003 EFLGS=00010213
EBX=00b6b9f0 SS=015f ESP=0076fb24 EBP=0000018a
ECX=03000000 DS=015f ESI=00000098 FS=37ef
EDX=816d754c ES=015f EDI=004055d5 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
00 65 04 70 00 16 00 84 db 65 04 70 00 14 d7 1f
Stack dump:
00008170 00b622f0 00000000 0040577e 00000000 00b622f0 00000000 0000018a
0076fb58 00405fc7 00b600d0 00b6bd00 00000010 0076fb94 00470248 00008171
==========================================
NETSCAPE caused a stack fault in module <unknown> at 0000:10027573.
Registers:
EAX=65656661 CS=0157 EIP=10027573 EFLGS=00010246
EBX=00000000 SS=015f ESP=00a42000 EBP=0fc25971
ECX=00000108 DS=015f ESI=03b15f90 FS=0e37
EDX=00000110 ES=015f EDI=1002740e GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
e8 fb ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Stack dump:
10027578 10027578 10027578 10027578 10027578 10027578 10027578 10027578
10027578 10027578 10027578 10027578 10027578 10027578 10027578 10027578