Archaic Browser Warning

[jmoore]

"Mobile" is how I've been operating during the week (00:30 to 06:00) for many months now. The dire warning in "Mobile" are new as of last night. Only on this site, too! (I visit fnforum.net and M14forum.com a bit when things are slow.) Oh, well. not blocked altogether, yet! This situation can't last too much longer, but I've thought that for a while, too...

[Badger]

"Mobile" is how I've been operating during the week (00:30 to 06:00) for many months now. The dire warning in "Mobile" are new as of last night. Only on this site, too! (I visit fnforum.net and M14forum.com a bit when things are slow.) Oh, well. not blocked altogether, yet! This situation can't last too much longer, but I've thought that for a while, too...

When you say "dire warning", I'm not sure what you mean?

Regards,
Doug

[jmoore]

Maybe I can do a cut and paste Sunday night. This "weekend computer" isn't the drama. Hold, please...

[jmoore]

Made it through a few threads before this messeage appeared:

Error 403
We're sorry, but we could not fulfill your request for /showthread.php?t=30323&p=169295#post169295 on this server.

You do not have permission to access this server.

Your technical support key is: cdae-161a-dfd9-b1ad

You can use this key to fix this problem yourself.

If you are unable to fix the problem yourself, please contact webmaster(@)milsurps(.)com and be sure to provide the technical support key shown above.

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Which if you click on the link "fix this problem yourself", displays the following message. (doesn't happen all the time, and merely hitting the "back" button a couple of times temporarily "fixes" the problem.):

Technical Support
Your request was intercepted by Bad Behavior, security software which protects the Web site you visited from malicious activity, such as hackers, spam and viruses. We apologize for the inconvenience, but your request matched a profile of suspicious activity. This problem is usually quite easy to fix.

Your request was blocked because of malicious automated requests received from your computer's IP address.

This problem may be caused by viruses or spyware on your computer, or by malicious software that pretends to be anti-virus or anti-spyware software. Ensure that you have REAL anti-virus and anti-spyware software on your computer, that they are kept up-to-date, and that you have run a full system scan using each tool. Once your system is cleaned of viruses and spyware, please try your request again.

The free Microsoft Security Essentials provides reasonable protection against a wide variety of malicious software.

If you have just submitted data to the Web site you were visiting before you were blocked, this may be a bug in your Web browser. Click the Back button three times to continue browsing. Then consider replacing your Web browser with a standard Web browser.

If the above suggestions fail to resolve the problem, click Back and contact the e-mail address you were given for further assistance.

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The next to last paragraph seems the likely cause, I guess. Probably a recent update to the browser.

[Badger]

Wow ...

This is the first time in 5 years that I've ever seen our internal firewall threat analyzer light up like this ...

Besides what it told you and according to the key log, it appears that it thinks your IE6 Browser is now trying to ....... Request contained a malicious JavaScript or SQL injection attack.

Anyway, I've contacted the developer who writes the protection software to see if there's anything we can do to help you around your IE6 dilemma.... will advise ...

Edit: Got a answer back as follows:

This is caused by a bug in very old versions of Internet Explorer (specifically IE6 on Windows XP). The user just needs to update their browser, or use a different browser. When this happens, the user's post has gone through successfully, they'll just need to hit Back and refresh the forum thread to see it.

The other thing is that if they're at work, and it's not likely work-related, they will probably have a lot of trouble with getting their company to update IE or let them use something else. Without getting in trouble for goofing off at work, that is.

Regards,
Doug

[jmoore]

"The other thing is that if they're at work, and it's not likely work-related, they will probably have a lot of trouble with getting their company to update IE or let them use something else. Without getting in trouble for goofing off at work, that is."

No trouble, as I've asked before (not that there's hardly any supervision- one of the beauties of night shift!), but I reckon the IT division will get around to it one day. Probably have to replace a thousand or two computers first, though!

[jmoore]

Update:

Got an E-mail last week from our product line manager saying he doesn't mind "surfing the internet" during breaktime just as long as the work station is left clean of litter.

THIS week the official answer to updating almost 1500 computers came out- Most will denied internet access! (Intra-net only). We have many older but vital programs that just aren't compatible w/ new IE platforms. Since outside access isn't vital for most of our work, it's easier to cut outside connection capabilities. Makes sense.

Don't know if there will be any easily accessible computers when the change takes place, so my presence here may be much less! Soooo...???

[Badger]

Don't know if there will be any easily accessible computers when the change takes place, so my presence here may be much less! Soooo...???

That's unfortunate partner ...

To be honest, my experience in IT and systems development goes back almost 30 years and I've never seen such a backwards reaction to handling technology upgrades, particularly founded on the premise that they're trying to protect antiquated programs. We have a major investment running an old DOS (1980's) based database and they're using IE8 and web access to it no problem. If I were the CEO of your corporation, I'd be asking some hard questions about who's making these decisions and why.

Anyway, your presence will be missed my friend.

Maybe buy an iPad2 and access the site from it anytime and anywhere you want?

Can I access the milsurps.com site from dial-up, cell phone, iPhone or Blackberry?

Most of my daily access is using my small iPhone or larger iPad and it works great ...

Regards,
Doug

[jmoore]

Maybe, but I'm trending the other way- thinking of dumping cable and doing w/o TV altogether. I started this internet stuff only because my employer forced an e-mail address on me!

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(Cable got knocked out over a week ago during a storm and they haven't bother to fix it yet.)

[jmoore]

As regards archaic, it's built into this industry due to regulatory and safety issues. Commercial pilots still can't fly the shortest distance between two points as their flight plans require compass headings, so no GPS navigation as a primary reference- probably not even a tertiary ref!

Regardless, I'm not in disagreement with the proposal to limit outside access except for the few that actually need it. Especially if it means no new "improved" programs. We've spent millions on new systems in the past, only to find they were worse than what we had or ended up fragile or some such. What we have works EXTREMELY well, likely better than any other on this hemisphere- Our continued worldwide success as a maintenance provider seems to prove it.