[dba-Tech] Stubborn portal

Good to know and now another tool.

Jim 

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 7:41 AM
To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Stubborn portal

Hi all

As always, just by writing you get an idea. We use Ad Muncher at some
workstations to block adds and it works very well. But this site is
completely blocked by AM even if it is disabled - you have to unload it
completely. Never seen that before.

Thanks for watching!

/gustav


>>> mwp.reid at qub.ac.uk 01-02-2012 15:43 >>>
Fine here using Windows 7 and IE9

Martin


-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
Sent: 01 February 2012 14:19
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Stubborn portal

Gustav,

It ran fine from Canada.

Arthur

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Gustav Brock <Gustav at cactus.dk> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I need some serious help.
> This site which is the official main portal of the authorities in 
> Denmark opens fine at some workstations while some refuse to, well 
> actually seems to block it:
>
> http://www.virk.dk 
>
> I have of course tried all the usual down to reinstalling IE but the 
> issue spans across OSs (WinXP, Win7 32 and 64) as well as browsers, IE 
> and Chrome. Also tried to disable antivirus and firewall. Checked DNS 
> (this is a standard AD setup). No change.
>
> Thus I made a packet capture with Wireshark on of the offending 
> workstations. Seems like the portal is returning invalid HTTP packets ...
> However, I'm not a packet expert, so if someone could have a look and 
> tell what is going on, I can mail the pcap file off-line.
>
> /gustav
>
>
> Only two businesses refer to their clientele as users: drug dealers 
> and software developers.
>
> -- Arthur Fuller


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