Thoughts about finding viruses in email inboxes

[Robert Holtzman]

On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Ray Parrish wrote:

> Robert Holtzman wrote:
>>>
>>
>> Tried the wget command and got:
>> Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name.
>>
> Well, your browser appears to be trying to go through a proxy server on
> it's way to the site you actually need to go to, according to your error
> message there, and the proxy server is not configured right to boot!

I didn't realize that's what the error message meant. Thanks.

> Does your internet connection normally use a proxy server? I have no
> idea what the settings for it would be if you do, and I haven't had an
> account that used one for over tens years, so I don't know if I could be
> any help with that anymore.

I used to run privoxy but purged that months ago. Besides, it listened 
on 8118.

> If that proxy server is part of your isp's setup for your connection,
> I'd suggest giving them a quick call. If it's not, dump it for right
> now, as you aren't really gaining all that much in privacy by using it
> anyway.

I'll give *spit* Cox a call but I somehow doubt they are the problem 
since everything else connects O.K. On the other hand I haven't used 
wget in years and never with this ISP. We'll see.

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