On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 21:53:24 -0600, "Robi" <me@privacy.net> wrote:

Am I the only one having trouble accessing the SETI @ Home website
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ [128.32.18.151]?

I acn't access it either.  It appears to be down  :-(

Dave

phew, I was scared that I was the only one.

You never really need to have that worry. To coin a phrase: you are
not alone.  ;-)

All you need to do to get another data point is to access a proxy
browsing service. The anonymizer.com is as good a service as any to
use. Just put in the URL

http://anon.free.anonymizer.com/http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu

and that will attempt to connect to the setiathome site through
anonymizer.com's services. The Anonymizer will then blast the page
back to you -- presuming the website is up.

BTW, there was this message about some virus/worm installing S@h
anybody got a copy of the message?

If you go to symantec.com's website and key in set, you'll see a
report about something doing that:

W32.Hyd@mm
Category2
Discovered on: June 07, 2001
Last Updated on: April 15, 2002 05:07:24 PM

W32.Hyd@mm is a retro mass-mailing worm that spreads 
using Microsoft Outlook. When run, it downloads and 
installs the SETI @ Home program and sets it up to 
perform calculations on the account of the virus writer.

Also Known As: SETI@Home worm
Type: Worm
Infection Length: 12249

It seems to be recent.

If you go to www.deja.com and do a search on 

seti@home worm

and sort the results by date, you'll see some recent entries at the
top of the list. They mention

http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/virus.html

Which, apparently, is a writeup about the current worm. But the
website is down right now.

--phil