PC Tech Thread

That is very much appreciated. Bare in mind you will be dealing with someone who has no clue about anything, which may be a problem.

This might as well be Spanish to me...
"the MAGY providers all currently validate DMARC and more providers are coming on stream all the time."

Will PM you my email deets though! Much appreciated.

Microsoft AOL Gmail Yahoo

PM'd! Its my own URL... would running it through gmail be possible/work?

Yes, and it would likely make things easier as they provide SPF and DKIM signing via a wizard IIRC

I'm stuck on a 560ti atm, let me know if you come up with a price for that 580 please!

Is there anyway I can converted a couple of prnx files to PDF? really need them as it got all the information I need for my job.

@chewy75 it's a DLink DNS-320 so it's running a proprietary firmware. Hasn't been a prolem I've had with it in the 3 years I've had it...

@TW I've been trying through both WiFi and LAN. The Wifi is direct to the Virgin SuperHub (which has the NAS directly on the LAN) and the LAN is run through a TP Link unmanaged desktop switch.

I think I may have spotted what was wrong - when I edited the hosts file I saved the new version to the desktop and copied it in (didn't run notepad++ as admin so couldn't save to C:). The new file didn't inherit the old permissions. When I tried again by copying the original, moving to the desktop to edit and moving back, it seems to have inherited the permissions.
Now when I try to ping rackhamnas it pings the right IP. Haven't tested it on my home network yet but will when I get home.

Thanks for the help guys, appreciated.

Ok, you are definitely being spoofed - I've pulled two emails "from" your domain.

First:
Subject: Hello, I'm Annochka.
From: Annochka hi@eightarmedpet.com
Good Day! My name is Annochka:) I am very solitary girl and desire to meet a honest man) If you are interested write to me, I'll send you my photo, have a good time!

Sent from my iPhone

And the reply to address is keithp81975@yahoo.com, presumably a compromised account controlled by the person who is using your domain to send out these Phishing emails.

Second is a variation on the first:

Subject: Hi, My name is Anna...
From: Anna dyz@eightarmedpet.com
Reply-To: Anna permyakovaanechka@gmail.com
Good Evening) My name is Anna, I am very lonely woman and wish to meet a serious man. If you are interested contact me, I'll send you my photo) good bye)

Sent from my iPhone

I'm going to guess we have a mixture of 419 with Russian Bride here, probably with some malware thrown in.

You'll need to properly authenticate your domain using SPF and DKIM, and put a DMARC record into the DNS.

Once you are sure that the authentication is functioning as intended you can tell the ISP's to delete any and all email that fails the authentication checks, denying use of your domain to the person(s) currently using it.

Cheers for the info, it really is way over my head though... tried to do a few bits yesterday and my hosting company confirmed I had enabled this and that but they are still coming through today...
It's my "business" email so can't really just kill it (I have used it for 7 odd years), would you or anyone else be interested in trying to sort the problem for me? I would obviously pay.

I'm going to be on the road in South America for the next 6 months and this amount of spam is going to kill my data and render my email unusable...

You could probably make a big dent in it with just an SPF record and a DMARC policy.

An SPF record declares (in a text file in your DNS zone file) which IP addresses send your emails - and therefore that any email coming from addresses that are not listed are not authorised.

The DMARC record tells the ISP's what to do when they check the SPF record and the email they are looking at doesn't come from a listed IP.

http://www.spfwizard.net/ looks fine for generating the SPF record.

Your DMARC record should look like this:

v=DMARC1; p=none; fo=1; rua=mailto:[reporting address]; ruf=mailto:[reporting address]

Again, this is a txt record that goes in your DNS, at _DMARC.eightarmedpet.com

Once you have made sure that your authentication is working you change the p=value from p=none to p=reject, which will tell ISP's to delete email that is not coming from the IP's listed in your SPF record.

I sent an invite to info@ your site for our UI, if you want to use that to look at the data let me know and I'll send you the DMARC record that will report to us.

Errmm... I don't use an info@ my site email, just hi@ my site so nothing came through?

Really appreciate the help, but I have no idea where a DMARC record would be.

Imagine trying to explain this to your mum*, I'm probably much the same level IT wise.

I assume you mum is of a similar level to mine and my mother in law - who I had to spend 2 hours explaining how to unplug an ipod.

Ah, whoops. I'll try that again.

I'm sure someone on here who is technical can give you a hand?

Just had an email from "Delivery Support" is that what I should be looking out for? Something about an account has been set up?
Will try to get my head round it, going to be tough as I am packing my whole house up this eve...

Yep.

Amazing, thank you very much!

Set up PW but don't know my user name? My real name doesn't appear to work?

Would be the email address I believe

Awesome, that worked, whats the next step?

Who was after the a cheap NAS? Friend is selling a PromiseTech SmartStor NS4600N NAS server for £150.

I'm looking for some advice on upgrading my soundcard if anyone can help me. I recently upgraded my work speaks to a 2.1 Corsair system and would like a decent soundcard to drive them. I have a crappy Dell Optiplex 380 which runs a Realtek card so I don't want the best just something which will do the job well.

I know Asus are seen as pretty good but a steer on the kind of models I should be researching would be helpful. Cheers!

So I did some investigating/observation and I think it was running low on memory. I kept the task manager open and noticed that when it was freezing it was nearly maxing out the memory. Picked up 8GB of RAM on the cheap and that seems to have solved the problem (at least until it next freezes). Thanks for your help!

Hi

Thought Id ask a bunch of cyclist if they could recommend me a USB Audio Interface.

I DJ vinyl though I want to play and record my music from my Windows laptop

Not interested in Beyringer or Numark

Budget is up to £100

Thanks

Well I opted for the Novation Audio Hub 2x4 by Focusrite

Gota say Im happy with it

Thinking of switching to micro ATX to get a less obtrusive case size. Below is my PC spec, what would I need aside from a new motherboard and obvs. a new case? Would my graphics card work in a micro / mini ATX board?

Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-V PRO
CPU: Intel Core i7 3770 3.5GHz
GPU: GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2GB
RAM: Corsair 16GB DDR3 1333Mhz XMS Memory
PSU: Corsair Gaming Series GS800 Power supply
Case: Antec Eleven Hundred
HD: WD Caviar Black 1 TB
SSD: Samsung 256GB 830 Series SSD

I've got one of these, which is relatively chunky, in a micro atx case and it fits fine. http://www.powercolor.com/us/products_features.asp?id=272

Case is one of these http://www.antec.com/product.php?id=704972&fid=5022024&lan=nz

Can't imagine you'd need to change anything. Maybe some different length cables but that's about it.