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Geek Culture / Tgc's website slowing down

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Wik
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Posted: 11th Jan 2004 19:59
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The advertisements are taking forever to load and I usually don't see them. Also It seems that it tries to load the advertisement before the page and its getting annoying. I don't have any spyware on my computer or anything. I can see on the loading bar it's sending requests to all sorts of places.


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OSX Using Happy Dude
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Posted: 11th Jan 2004 20:07
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Cant say I've moticed an increase or decrease in loading speed. Might be worth trying Mozilla - that seems to cache images more efficiently than IE, which should help.


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Wik
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Posted: 11th Jan 2004 20:08 Edited at: 11th Jan 2004 20:10
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Well, I'm using opera and it usually helps. I tried IE when I was in safe mode and it went so slow. I don't think it was because of the website though.

It says sending request to "search.rfwnad.com" which takes about 22 seconds


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Mattman
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Posted: 11th Jan 2004 20:36
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why you in safe emode?

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Rob K
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Posted: 11th Jan 2004 21:43
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I used to get that, where the whole page would load, then it would say Transferring data from... at the bottom of the page.


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Wik
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Posted: 11th Jan 2004 21:51
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What'd you do. I just noticed it's on other pages also

I was in safe mode so I could get my network to work


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Richard Davey
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Posted: 12th Jan 2004 11:23
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rfwnad.com is a side-effect of the HiJacker trojan, which is installed along with some rather well known packages (MyBar for IE, Incredimail, MSN Plus etc).

It's nothing to do with us.

The problem is simply that the domain isn't resolving at the moment, so it's taking ages for it to look it up, hence why you're seeing it.

See here (amongst lots of other pages about it on the net)
http://www.computercops.biz/postt11558.html

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Wik
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Posted: 12th Jan 2004 15:00
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Thanks, I did a spyware check with 2 programs, searched it on the norton site, and searched it on google.

I'll have a look at that


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Wik
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Posted: 13th Jan 2004 23:44
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Ok, all sorted out.


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Rob K
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Posted: 13th Jan 2004 23:56
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Similar problem happened with ads on this site not so long ago, spend ages trying to "Transfer from gfx.thegamecreators.com". Anyhow, its cleared up.


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