| Subject: SETISpy problem ? |
| From: "rcm" <rcm711@hotmail.com> |
| Date: 03/12/2003, 20:09 |
| Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti,sci.astro.seti |
I am running SETISpy 3.2.0 with SETIDriver 1.6.3.5 and the client 3.3
version of SETI under Windows 98 SE on a PIII 733 system with 256M RAM.
Been running this way for a year or more. I check my stats page at SETI
using the hyperlink in SETISpy User Stats display page. I saw this morning
that the page is messed up and am wondering if I got a virus or spyware on
my PC. IT displays fu for my userid instead of rcm711 and has the wrong
registered date.
User: fu Country: Canada
Registered: 12/01/03 Results Returned: 2748
etcetera
Should read
User: rcm711 Country: Canada
Registered:
Also the stats like CPU dedication, Result interval looks very strange. But
my totals look fine. Also if I click on the userid fu, it pops up my stats
correctly from SETI.
Because of userid fu seems like a nice virus like hack (short for f..k you),
it makes me nervous that I have been compromised somehow. I am also hanging
or crashing every couple of days for the past two weeks. Maybe my OS is
finally corrupted somehow, I checked it out with Norton Systemworks and no
problems.
I have Norton anti-virus, SpyBot and Adaware. All were recently run last
week as my PC has been acting strange in the last week. I have also done
online virus scans at Symantec and Trend Micro and found nothing. I check
the active tasks running and nothing unusual is running. I also checked
msconfig to see if any strange things are running on start-up and again
nothing unusual.
Is the fu a coincidence? Is anyone else running SETISpy and getting strange
results? Anyone tell me how SETISpy works and gets that info from? I
checked SETISpy.ini file and no fu in it. Anything to do with the recent
SETI server problems???
I am about to run all my spyware and virus checkers and online checkers to
see if anything is wrong. But it will take me all day to run these checks.
Anyone know of this problem or am I the "lucky" one to get this?