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 Krunchin-Keith [USA] Send message Joined: 17 May 07 Posts: 512 Credit: 111,288,061 RAC: 0 Level  Scientific publications    
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Posting for another user. I don't have linux so i'm not sure if this is a gpu problem or linux problem, can someone help wioth this. http://www.gpugrid.net/show_user.php?userid=81550 lpallard wrote:
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Send message Joined: 9 Dec 08 Posts: 1006 Credit: 5,068,599 RAC: 0 Level  Scientific publications   |
It may be a router problem. Please check out here: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=3034 |
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Krunchin-Keith [USA] Send message Joined: 17 May 07 Posts: 512 Credit: 111,288,061 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications
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Posting for another user. http://www.gpugrid.net/show_user.php?userid=81550 lpallard wrote:
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skgiven Send message Joined: 23 Apr 09 Posts: 3968 Credit: 1,995,359,260 RAC: 0 Level  Scientific publications  |
Do you think that after years of running (millions of uploads and downloads) all the crunchers, all Antivirus packages and all firewalls missed a virus, right up until now? Your antivirus/firewall is blocking executable files, that's all. Not all executable files are viruses; anything that is installed on your computer uses an executable during the installation, including your antivirus package! Keith, your friend has already finished and returned a task, http://www.gpugrid.net/results.php?hostid=108842 Suggest they read the recommended configurations, especially the bit where it says keep a small cache. Might otherwise want to crunch normal length tasks, rather than long tasks. GL, |
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Send message Joined: 16 Mar 11 Posts: 509 Credit: 179,005,236 RAC: 0 Level  Scientific publications
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Do you think that after years of running (millions of uploads and downloads) all the crunchers, all Antivirus packages and all firewalls missed a virus, right up until now? It's possible for the Windows files to not be infected while the Linux files are. The Linux files could be infected and not noticed because Linux users rarely use anti-virus software. And the infection may have happened after existing Linux users all downloaded their executables. anything that is installed on your computer uses an executable during the installation, including your antivirus package! Not true. Linux is different than windows. On Linux software is installed from non-executable packages. Obviously an executable opens the package and installs the files in the package but that executable is installed when you install Linux. It is exceedingly rare for a Linux user to download an executable. That may be unthinkable to a Windows user but that's the way Linux is. Keith, your friend has already finished and returned a task, Is it really necessary to italicize friend? He/she is just taking normal precautions. Even if that caution offends your finer sensibilities there's no reason to be deliberately insulting, especially when he/she is trying their best to attach and donate resources they pay for. |
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Send message Joined: 6 Oct 11 Posts: 2 Credit: 625,285 RAC: 0 Level  Scientific publications
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All right, having enough points to post now... It appears that HAVP, the AV that picked up the anomalies, only did its job. That is, it detected the jobs as broken executables. Talking to the HAVP devs, broken executables are typical of infected executables, (viruses). It may or may not be true, that I dont care. A properly configured anti-virus that warns you about something, due diligence requires you take a look at it. There is nothing wrong asking about it. It may be a router problem Toni was right! His pointer lead me in the right direction! Thanks Toni! Is it really necessary to italicize friend? He/she is just taking normal precautions. Even if that caution offends your finer sensibilities there's no reason to be deliberately insulting, especially when he/she is trying their best to attach and donate resources they pay for. Dragorath, thanks for your comprehension. Yes I am only taking precautions because like you said, most people are using windows or mac machines and I am 100% linux, so a bit on my "own". I already had the feeling that it was not possible that files from the project were infected, but when your antivirus gives you over 200 warnings in 3 days, there is reasons to worry about.. That is why I wrote "Can you *confirm* there is absolutely no viruses in these files?" in my last post here. Do you think that after years of running (millions of uploads and downloads) all the crunchers, all Antivirus packages and all firewalls missed a virus, right up until now?" No I dont think this is really possible but then again, it doesnt mean that a virus couldn't have entered the servers 5 minutes before my AV started launching warnings. After all, its cheap to ask. To recap: My AV picked up the jobs as broken exe's, I temporarily softened up the AV for now, and the jobs are now processing. We'll see where this leads to... On a different topic, I'd like to point out that I personally will not tolerate attitude, especially in a project where I give for free my resources. There is LOTS of other projects out there so the choices are not limited at all. I trust this is only miscommunication for now. Looking forward to help this project as much as I can! Thanks to all! |
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Send message Joined: 6 Oct 11 Posts: 2 Credit: 625,285 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications
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Also Thanks to Krunchin-Keith for relaying my messages until I had enough points to post on my own! |
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