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Old Nov 13th, 2009, 07:09 PM
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Problems with the FlyerTalk board?
Has anyone else been having problems connecting to the FlyerTalk Forums? I've been trying since Thursday and cannot connect.
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Old Nov 13th, 2009, 07:18 PM
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By any chance do you have Vista? I had a problem all day but my husband's XP got on fine. I finally did something in Vista security and now it works fine.
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Old Nov 13th, 2009, 07:26 PM
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mystic I am having the same problem and am using Vista. Do you remember what you did?
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Old Nov 13th, 2009, 07:33 PM
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Nope, I'm still on XP; I have not made any changes to my security settings (or any other settings) in months, but I still cannot access the web site. Help!
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Old Nov 13th, 2009, 07:38 PM
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Problem with their website. Same results with various browser. Not sure if whether the big article on WSJ on Thursday has anything to do with it or it.
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Old Nov 13th, 2009, 07:58 PM
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What I did is probably wrong and I am changing it back...until I read more about it. I went to the Control Panel/Security and I changed the User control option.
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Old Nov 13th, 2009, 09:45 PM
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Flyertalk's owner/host, Internet Brands, has been down (mostly) for the past day. Talk is they got hacked (speculation based on some links to x-rated sites suddenly turning up on FT's home page, before it went tango.)
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Old Nov 14th, 2009, 04:56 AM
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Same issue here. Working just fine this morning though. That site is kind of like my version of crack when I'm planning travel...I was getting the shakes without it.
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Old Nov 14th, 2009, 07:11 AM
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Whatever the problem , it is not totally resolved. Got FT to load but s-l-o-w-l-y
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Old Nov 14th, 2009, 08:39 AM
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Thanks, good to know I'm not alone.

mjz_kc...I feel your pain!
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Old Nov 14th, 2009, 08:41 AM
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There is now a FT message posted about the outage - was due to a cyber attack, now fixed. Still takes a while for the initial page to load but once done seems to be working OK
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Old Nov 14th, 2009, 10:25 AM
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<i>I've been trying since Thursday and cannot connect. </i>

for future reference:

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/
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Old Nov 15th, 2009, 03:14 PM
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Well if someoen finds out WHEN they plan to fix the website can they post it.

It is NOT working right and it's just not worth the effort to wait half an hour for the thing to load!
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Old Nov 15th, 2009, 03:38 PM
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It's been working more or less normally for me since yesterday morning. It took a little time to get on initially, after the outage, but no problems since.
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Old Nov 15th, 2009, 04:00 PM
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Yup. No problem since yesterday.
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Hey, I liked the idea of that downforeveryone site, but I think it's bogus. I just tried it, and every site I asked about was apparently "down" -- but when I went to the sites, they were fine....
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Old Nov 16th, 2009, 07:17 AM
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Click on the <i>Is it just me?</i> link and then read the following page. Most of the time it will say "It's just you" because the site is UP.
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Old Nov 16th, 2009, 08:44 AM
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FT is in and out again today. Guess IB is still on somebody's hate list.
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Old Nov 16th, 2009, 08:59 AM
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I don't have any problems?
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Old Nov 16th, 2009, 09:32 AM
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It was timing out for me (and for http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com too) up till around half an hour ago. Fingers crossed.
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