Author Topic: Discoed (Read 307 times)

Axhandle · « **on:** November 08, 2004, 10:47:39 PM »

I don't know what is wrong with my game anymore. Everytime I start to play I get discoed in about a half hour. I am getting those meesages about you have lost udp, please switch to idp or something to that effect. Very frustrating to be involved in a fight and the next thing you know your host has LOST CONNECTION. Don't know what the problem is now. HELP

fuzeman · « **Reply #1 on:** November 08, 2004, 11:17:41 PM »

Running a pingplot would be the first thing I'd do. MAybe something along the way is having a problem.
http://www.pingplotter.com there is a free version.

Estes · « **Reply #2 on:** November 08, 2004, 11:32:55 PM »

Could be something running in the background. Anti-virus, Firewall etc., Try turning off everything in the background, then running the game again.

As Fuze said, run the pingplot and post your results here.

Axhandle · « **Reply #3 on:** November 09, 2004, 04:03:14 PM »

I have pingplotter, but I don't know quite how to use it. I have AH list as an exception on my firewall list, but am still have problems. How can I find out what all is running in the background and disable them?? Axhandle

Skuzzy · « **Reply #4 on:** November 09, 2004, 05:07:44 PM »

You will need the IP address of the arena. The Main Arena is 216.91.187.39. Ping Plotter needs that IP address.

To see the list of executables running on your computer do a CTRL-ALT-DEL to bring up the "Task Manager" and select the "Processes" tab.
For Windows XP/2K, there should be around 18 to 21 listed.

StarOfAfrica2 · « **Reply #5 on:** November 09, 2004, 05:29:14 PM »

Sort of along this same thread, I was doing some cleanup on my processes last night and came across one I didnt recognize. Did a search on it and found it was a Windows ME autoupdate file? Two different BBS entries had people saying they had encountered this file being used to piggyback a trojan. It installs in the system32 folder and in the Windows folder. Dont know where it came from, but I had 4 instances of it in different places and it was hogging CPU resources. The other funny thing was the create date was this month. I wish now I had written down the filename (it was wau.........something....exe). At the time I was in seek and destroy mode instead of research mode. Back down to 18 processes now.

Axhandle · « **Reply #6 on:** November 09, 2004, 05:47:56 PM »

Shows I have 37 processes. Question is which ones do I really need.

Skuzzy · « **Reply #7 on:** November 09, 2004, 07:44:54 PM »

That's the tough part Ax. Every system is different. You have to figure out why they are there before you can go about shutting off things.
Most of them will be related to various applications you have installed. Some could be spyware/malware programs as well.

Clifra Jones · « **Reply #8 on:** November 15, 2004, 12:07:47 PM »

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Originally posted by StarOfAfrica2
Sort of along this same thread, I was doing some cleanup on my processes last night and came across one I didnt recognize. Did a search on it and found it was a Windows ME autoupdate file? Two different BBS entries had people saying they had encountered this file being used to piggyback a trojan. It installs in the system32 folder and in the Windows folder. Dont know where it came from, but I had 4 instances of it in different places and it was hogging CPU resources. The other funny thing was the create date was this month. I wish now I had written down the filename (it was wau.........something....exe). At the time I was in seek and destroy mode instead of research mode. Back down to 18 processes now.

Yes you need to kill this thing. Not only is it unsafe but it will kill your FR because it randomly want to check for updates. Yup, wau*.exe are what they are called. If I were you, I would seriously consider upgrading to XP. ME is a terrible OS. It is very unstable and there are a lot of leaks in it.

StarOfAfrica2 · « **Reply #9 on:** November 15, 2004, 01:19:00 PM »

I dont have ME, I have XP. Ive never even had ME installed on this computer. Thats why it caught my eye and I thought it was so weird. I hadnt ever seen it before and when I did a search on it, it came up as a Windows ME autoupdate program. Then I saw posts from people who found it piggybacking trojan horse files. I deleted every reference to it in search and it has not come back.