[GreenKeys] The Internet Teletype Replies

Mon Apr 29 08:48:42 EDT 2013

Dave,

You have certainly been infected with browser hijack malware, maybe worse.

Downloading from unknown sites just searching google and clicking on links 
will guarantee that you will get infected.

At least verify that the file's MD5s match .

FWIW, I have never heard of the responses that you are getting when 
"attempting to download",  "unavailable" - do you mean a 404 'file not 
found' error?

What does "Leech Attempt" mean? what returned that response?

The safest thing to do is to use one machine for file download only, then 
virus scan that file before moving it to the target machine.

Not much left to do now but reinstall ...

At 11:57 PM 4/28/2013 -0400, NNN7DXB at aol.com wrote:
>All:
>
>Thanks to all who have responded to my request for assistance in getting
>the Internet Teletype operation going at this end (here in SC). Please
>keep your replies and suggestions coming as all of your ideas are being
>tried. One of these days, it "might" work. Thanks also to those of
>you who made the effort and telephoned me today both on the phone
>and via Skype. It is greatly appreciated.
>
>My problems in trying to get the ITTY teletype channels to work
>has been an exercise in futility and I am deeply frustrated and
>ready to give up. It is now my belief that whoever wrote this
>software and set this system up could not have made it any more
>difficult, awkward or difficult to work with. Much of the "tutorial"
>is written in so much computerese techno-talk that it is
>not understandable and there are no helpful guides. While I have
>tried to follow most of what most of you have offered, much
>of this still doesn't produce any useful results thus far. So, I
>am back to square one: guess work, and trial and error. I am
>beginning to understand the true meaning of insanity: doing the
>same things over and over again and again, expecting different
>results. At best, ITTY teletype has been "hit and miss" mostly
>miss.....with less than gratifying results so far.
>
>Here is what I have at the moment to work with and the results thus
>far:
>
>I have 5 computers in-house (in my home).
>
>2 are late model laptops, one with Win 7 and the other with Win 8.
>Both of the laptops will pick up ITTY sometimes, using any one of the many
>audio players (Winamp, Real Player, etc). Sound (audio) is strong,
>loud and clear -- no problem. The laptops will copy some ITTY
>traffic but with significant garble in the text - sometimes with
>entire  messages being garbled. That is the best I have been
>able to come up with on the 60 wpm channels. Neither will
>copy Autostart or National (100 wpm), as these result in
>nothing but garble. I am particularly interested in Autostart
>as I would like to begin sending traffic to the Autostart. That
>interest and effort however, is thwarted by the problems I
>am having just trying to receive.......(you get the idea here).
>
>3 of the machines here will pick up the MMTTY screen
>with no problems at all. The 4th machine, a PC, is unable
>to download the MMTTY software because the software
>seems to be blocked by the ISPs. More on that later......
>
>The 100 wpm channel is always garbled, so I don't even mess
>with that one anymore, since it is a waste of time and effort to date.
>
>There are  three PCs here:
>
>The newest is a 1 month old Win 8 machine which belongs to
>wife. Of course, she won't let me near it, as that is her prize
>possession......(understandable). I only get to work on it
>when she has a problem. FWIW, I am pretty handy at
>working with and troubleshooting these machines, so that
>is not an issue. Machine care, maintenance, updates,
>and all the techy stuff to keep them going and all of
>that are non-issues. All of these machines are in excellent
>running condition with no software issues or glitches.....
>they are clean. We use various ISPs and online services:
>ATT.NET, Google, Firefox and AOL...and we have
>DSL exclusively (the high end version of DSL). My
>DSL router is a high-end industrial or business router, and
>not the run-of-the-mill "residential" type. It works
>very well. Circuit outages and link failures are not
>problems.
>
>The other 2 PCs are 5 year old XP machines. Normally I
>do not attempt to use either for ITTY work, as the one, while
>it shows the ITTY / MMTTY screen perfectly, seems to have
>terrible sound quality (probably a low end sound card).
>
>The other XP machine is identical to the other one mentioned
>above (both bought at the same time). Both work well for
>everything else, just not MMTTY. This 2nd machine for some
>reason, has no sound (it did, but apparently, it toggled off,
>and I have not been able to find a way to turn it back on, in
>spite of the fact that the drivers, and the "system" says that
>the sound and audio devices are in fact connected and
>"working" which they are not. So, that machine is not
>available for MMTTY - at least not yet, or until I can fix
>the darn sound problem. May take a day or two to
>figure that one out, especially since the machine "says"
>that everything is "fine" and "working" which it is not.
>The machine is lying to me.........(this machine seems to
>have had a slightly better sound card, in that it once
>"heard" the audio on ITTY Teletype much better than the
>machine above).
>
>FWIW, I spent half the day trying to download MMTTY software
>into the 2nd PC only to find that the URLs on Google show
>almost all of the MMTTY URLs as "unavailable" for
>download. One came back as a "Leech Attempt" suggesting
>the software is now proprietary, and is being blocked
>by the ISPs. There were about 3 or 4 different URLs for
>MMTTY -- all of them blocked, including the one on the
>ITTY (Internet Teletype) page. None were downloadable today.
>Two of the blocked URLs instead sent me unwanted other
>junk programs to download instead which I didn't want and
>did not download (Driver Finder, PC Cleaner, and other
>ride-along programs).
>
>And for Ricebox: the MMTTY URL you sent came thru
>OK on your email. However, when I went to open it to
>install -- it came up with software garbage that was
>entirely different from what it was supposed to be. The
>MMTTY link you sent showed "PC Cleaner" software
>in place of the MMTTY software.......
>
>So, as you can see, I am in a quandry. Can't get ITTY
>channels to work, and can't get the software to download.
>
>I will continue to try if you continue to send me ideas and
>suggestions, but I must admit that I am fast running out of
>both time and patience with the ITTY/MMTTY mess and its'
>really not fun anymore......it's becoming a laborious effort
>that I am rapidly tiring of.
>
>Thanks to all who have responded thus far. Hope I can get this
>to for me someday while I am still "above ground"! LOL
>
>Dave in SC
>
>
>
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