OSUT#256 - Easter Bunny, Solar Eclipse...what's next?

[tmschuller]

Good morning all! Everyone have a wonderful day
Gutters being installed on the barn and perimeter drain is next..!

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I do think I'm going to hang on to this laptop and look into making it a Linux machine.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Mornin' tm!

 

[GregD]

Morning tm

 

[Expat]

Morning Greg

 

[Expat]

morning tm

 

[Expat]

Morning patience

 

[GregD]

Morning Expat

 

[BeDome]

Ran the "troubleshooter" thingy on the wifi. It said it was not configured to connect automatically (although I think it was). Had the troubleshooter set it to do that and it thinks that resolved the problem, so we shall see. I'm skeptical.

I think Xfinity is sending out what most would call a computer virus. They only want your money.
So, your connection is switched to "xfinitywifi" but it's not connected unless you buy more from them or manually switch back to your existing wifi.
Just a theory, but that is what I had noticed earlier.

If I do a wifi search and look at all it can detect, like all your neighbors setups (I live in town), there are usually about twenty others within range, but I see eight unsecured "xfinitywifi" networks. Click one and you get an ad.
Click any other, it asks for a password - normal.
Acts like a virus to me.

 

[klausm]

good morning everyone need to get the dogs walked and the yard mowed today

 

[BeDome]

Oh, DD, and I also found a temp folder with 4gb of whatever in it. That stuff gets dumped with each restart, but in about an hour it had 4gb of incripted text? More data than a lunar landing mission?
BS!

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I think Xfinity is sending out what most would call a computer virus. They only want your money.
So, your connection is switched to "xfinitywifi" but it's not connected unless you buy more from them or manually switch back to your existing wifi.
Just a theory, but that is what I had noticed earlier.

If I do a wifi search and look at all it can detect, like all your neighbors setups, there are usually about twenty within range, but I see eight unsecured "xfinitywifi" networks. Click one and you get an ad.
Acts like a virus to me.

Well this isn't Xfinity related. It's peculiar to my laptop since my work laptop is literally nearly touching my personal laptop and it hasn't had any problems. And my personal one hadn't had any until a couple days ago. So far, setting my setting to connect automatically to the main home network seems to be working.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Mornin' klaus!

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Oh, DD, and I also found a temp folder with 4gb of whatever in it. That stuff gets dumped with each restart, but in about an hour it had 4gb of incripted text?
BS!

Hmm... that's a lot of "junk" to accumulate! Never heard of something like that before.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I'm no weather man, but I've been watching this and it sure looks like it will get here well before 9 p.m..

 

[GregD]

Hi BD

 

[GregD]

Howdy klausm

 

[BeDome]

Well this isn't Xfinity related. It's peculiar to my laptop since my work laptop is literally nearly touching my personal laptop and it hasn't had any problems. And my personal one hadn't had any until a couple days ago. So far, setting my setting to connect automatically to the main home network seems to be working.

Great!
I just wanted to give your huntin' dawg more to sniff at.

I insist my troubles came from xfin changing my internal computer settings.
That's an old school virus!

 

[BeDome]

Hmm... that's a lot of "junk" to accumulate! Never heard of something like that before.

Yeah those files are usually in Kb size

I had to do a triple-take and scatch my head some.

 

[BeDome]

Mornin' GregD