The nastiest virus ever created: Seti-BOINC!?
(nastiest because it comes with users request, in good faith to do some beneficial work, not with downloading from some pirate web-sites and it is not recognized as virus by my most advanced virus protection!)

What else I can say after years of giving my computer time to crunch thousands of results with millions of others and now, after forced to move to BOINC when Classic sites were stopped, I am only seeing (from all these “spiderweb-like” message boards) that many if not most of us are experiencing to participate in time consuming and worthless project. “No work from project” is the most common answer we get! Last straw to break camels back was when BOINC started to block my modem stopping my internet and e-mail access. I definitely must work offline with my dial up and got nervous when almost each time when reconnecting I saw the warning: “Program has changed…do not….allow if etc.!!!”
It gave me a lot of work and all day (or several, as it repeated) to find out the guilty and then BOINC stopped even to react to icon in notification area. And then when Windows did not want to remove the program, that was really enough!
After I managed to close processes from Control Panel system hardware, Windows (hopefully) removed the program. This is not the procedure recommended by Windows, and not known by majority of us “normal” users, especially in developing countries where people only have dial – up and working without any hope of IT support. I read in one of these threads, in a pages long technical description of how to clean some bugs that assumptions (of author) is that user is mostly member of some LAN or company’s intranet requiring all proxie’s settings etc. This is (was) not the case with Set Classic which was not the site for programmer-nerds only!

I only hope that the possible remains of BOINC will let me now continuously to use my modem. Then I might look some time in future if there is any significant and reliable update in project, otherwise Good Bye Seti! Or other projects – no question until that!!

I only hope that the possible remains of BOINC will let me now continuously to use my modem.

And what's your point of your multiple postings?

You have posted the same here and here!

EDIT: I took a look at your posts and you have actually posted the same 6 (six!) times!

Edited out all the whining...

I have 124,000 credits and I'm no programming nerd, my 11 year old
Son could install and run BOINC.
I'm using dial up and haven't run out of work to crunch in probably
6 months, my computers are running perfectly.
There are times that I can't get any new work because of technical
problems but I always have enough to keep crunching.
I seriously doubt that BOINC is blocking your modem or your
Internet service, sounds like you might have spyware or a Virus
that has nothing to do with BOINC.
Too bad your leaving, I'm missing you already ;)

And what's your point of your multiple postings?

You have posted the same here and here!

EDIT: I took a look at your posts and you have actually posted the same 6 (six!) times!

I always fail to understand why people have to blame SETI or BOINC for the problems they have with their PCs/OSs. SETI and BOINC have never caused any problems on my PCs or with the OS. I guess it's easier to blame someone/something else than to spend some time trying to track down the "real" problem. >:-)

My question is... Is there a common place where messages are left by the admins for users to go and check for possible problems ? A simple web page with up to date comments would do such as "Date: Server down, please be patient" or "Network congestion, we are working on it."

We might get less postings if people could look at some simple current status notices. If there is already such a site, it might be prudent to publicise it.

"I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me

I always fail to understand why people have to blame SETI or BOINC for the problems they have with their PCs/OSs. SETI and BOINC have never caused any problems on my PCs or with the OS. I guess it's easier to blame someone/something else than to spend some time trying to track down the "real" problem. >:-)

From what I've seen over the years it's because they're either too lazy to locate the problem or too cheap to have someone do it for them if they can't figure it out. It's far easier to whine and complain, especially when it involves Classic vs BOINC and your already pre-disposed to hate BOINC because your precious Classic is being retired and you can't recrunch the same WU for the hundreth time.

I am amazed at the number of posts here and elsewhere which constantly whinge and whine at not being able to upload or download. I look after a business network across 2000 Km (1600 miles), where downtime is measured in seconds, so I know to expect Murphy's Rule to show up every now and then.

I tend to keep an eye on my BOINC computers on a weekly basis, but before complaining or looking for someone to blame, leave it a few days to see if it catches up, then look at the server stats, and forums for a possible reason.

My question is... Is there a common place where messages are left by the admins for users to go and check for possible problems ? A simple web page with up to date comments would do such as "Date: Server down, please be patient" or "Network congestion, we are working on it."

We might get less postings if people could look at some simple current status notices. If there is already such a site, it might be prudent to publicise it.

What sucks is a thread created by a plonked author still shows up in the thread list.

"I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me

What sucks is a thread created by a plonked author still shows up in the thread list.

So we can have our fun with it later!

What sucks is a thread created by a plonked author still shows up in the thread list.

So we can have our fun with it later!

Yep, I agree. No sense in hijacking a useless thread and making it useful, if there's no fun involved.... >:-)