I hit my first 10,000 points in one Day!!

[jethroted]

I just finished folding 10,000 points in one day! This is going so well. I'm buying a round for everyone! :D


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[baby duck monge]

how many computers do you have running it? and why did your production decrease so much over time?

[jethroted]

how many computers do you have running it? and why did your production decrease so much over time?

I'm not sure how many machines are running it now. There are lot's though. It's in a few departments anyway. Probably about 600-700 so far. More are on the way! As for the decrease in production, I used to have it running at my old place of employment. They went under and I lost my job. So for a long time I had no where to run folding. Here at my new job, I have access to more computers than I can shake a stick at!

[Dreadnought]

Only one word comes to mind: DAMN! Keep it up and keep your growthrate like this! So I figure because of your efforts we are now as team 3446 above the 30.000 points per day?

[wdlove]

Good work jethroted, thank you for folding. You are helping medical research and the team! ;)

[Dreadnought]

So, you already past me... But watch out, I'll be coming for you! (one day...) You are only 50 places in front of me :(

[Dreadnought]

I'm not sure how many machines are running it now. There are lot's though. It's in a few departments anyway. Probably about 600-700 so far. More are on the way! As for the decrease in production, I used to have it running at my old place of employment. They went under and I lost my job. So for a long time I had no where to run folding. Here at my new job, I have access to more computers than I can shake a stick at!

Well, it says on the folding website that you only have 12 machines/procs running... You aren't working for Apple do you? Testing out those new G5's?
LOL :D

[wowser]

These threads don't mean much to me. Is it a bit like the system they use in Monsters Inc. to see who scares the most people?

[jethroted]

These threads don't mean much to me. Is it a bit like the system they use in Monsters Inc. to see who scares the most people?

Who's scared? It's party time!

[baby duck monge]

These threads don't mean much to me. Is it a bit like the system they use in Monsters Inc. to see who scares the most people?

actually, yes. 10,000 points/day is a huge goal for a mere mortal as far as folding goes. one computer might earn maybe 25-100 points in a day, so when one person can contribute over a thousand at a time, it is a huge boost. also, it gets other people fired up to possibly try and add new machines to the fold of... er... folding.

[mc68k]

ur recent production is the most insane thing related to folding i have ever witnesed

one thing is certain; i am glad u are folding for us! u look to be passing up all us folding old timers in short and record time!

i saw the 10,000 in one day and was just amazed-- im very curious to see where ur daily stats equalize

[aus_dave]

jethroted, you have impressive stats. If you keep going at that rate you will be ranked number 1 of our team inside two months :cool:.

I have started folding again after taking a break for a few months. My G5's massive contribution is around 60 to 70 points a day - miniscule in comparison :).

[legion]

What are the specs on these machines runing F@home?

[Mr. Anderson]

very nice! Now when will you break the 20k a day barrier :D

D

[jethroted]

ur recent production is the most insane thing related to folding i have ever witnesed

one thing is certain; i am glad u are folding for us! u look to be passing up all us folding old timers in short and record time!

i saw the 10,000 in one day and was just amazed-- im very curious to see where ur daily stats equalize

They won't be equalizing any time soon! I have a lot more machines to put on.


What are the specs on these machines runing F@home?

They are all different. I have everything from 700 mhz p3's to 2.6 ghz p4's.



very nice! Now when will you break the 20k a day barrier

Give me another week. Ha ha ha, no, I'm serious. ;)

[wowser]

Who's scared? It's party time!

well.... congratulations! :o

[MacBandit]

You wouldn't want to contribute a couple machines in my name would you? :D

[Rower_CPU]

Amazing output, JT! :D

Our last couple of team point totals are well over 40k/day, too - just a bit more and we'll start catching back up to Team Mac OS X. :p

[KingSleaze]

Well, I noticed that we are gaining on the current #18 Sudhian Media.

And here I am stuck with only one PB running F@H and another sTinker (16% complete after oner day). :D

[jethroted]

Amazing output, JT! :D

Our last couple of team point totals are well over 40k/day, too - just a bit more and we'll start catching back up to Team Mac OS X. :p


I'm on it!

[yoman]

I'm on it!

You go jethro!! CHARGE!1

[legion]

They are all different. I have everything from 700 mhz p3's to 2.6 ghz p4's.


Any Macs?

[Khaldei]

Well there goes my run for the top. Amazing production jethroted, just amazing.

[Rower_CPU]

Well there goes my run for the top. Amazing production jethroted, just amazing.

Your output has been really solid, too. You've definitely helped us stay steady lately. :)

[ExoticFish]

wow... that's all i can say. wow. i've been getting up in the ranks slowly but surely. rank 122 as of a minute ago. but wow. i'm always on the lookout for new machines to add but all the ones i get that would be awesome folders are being used as servers (just got a new dual 2.4GHz Xeon :) ) stupid servers... they would be much better utilized as folding work horses. :p

[chv400]

well that beats what i can ever possibly do. My whole school has only 650 computers all macs. Jusy about every model from the first imacs. Mostly emacs. I was going in the process of putting Panther and F@H on them all but then school ended. Yes my school runs on OS 9 but not for long when school starts again i'll be putting panther on every last one of em....... hopefully :)

[chv400]

wow... that's all i can say. wow. i've been getting up in the ranks slowly but surely. rank 122 as of a minute ago. but wow. i'm always on the lookout for new machines to add but all the ones i get that would be awesome folders are being used as servers (just got a new dual 2.4GHz Xeon :) ) stupid servers... they would be much better utilized as folding work horses. :p

That's all the G5 Xserve my school got does. We haven't quite figured out how to make it do anything else. We can't figure out how to make it serve. We would like it to do a macintosh manager style thing like we've been doing in OS 9

[jethroted]

Any Macs?

Not a single one. :( The gov't loves Microsoft. We send them $3,000,000 a year for volume licenses. What a waste of money.

[Dreadnought]

Well, you can still use them for folding. At night they would be almost idle!

[yoman]

I guess we'll be following Team MacOS X up the ranks. It would be pretty neat if two Mac teams made the top 10. :)

[bhertz]

... And I thought that I was doing pretty good getting ready to enter the top twenty. Looks like I might have to add some more machines.

I just looked up your power on MacNN, 252.8 GHz. Thats insane.

[jethroted]

... And I thought that I was doing pretty good getting ready to enter the top twenty. Looks like I might have to add some more machines.

I just looked up your power on MacNN, 252.8 GHz. Thats insane.


That is insane. I'm up to 15,000 a day now. I should be at 20,000 a day by the weekend. Team Macrumors is going straight to the top!


Go Team Macrumors!

[imaswitcheryeah]

I just looked up your power on MacNN, 252.8 GHz. Thats insane.


Hey, where do you find that info on MacNN?

[ExoticFish]

i was wondering the same thing. i went over there and looked around but i couldn't find anything.

[Rower_CPU]

Select one of the member pages from the drop down at the top of the page (e.g. Active Members) than change the Level drop down to Medium or higher.

[jethroted]

Hey, where do you find that info on MacNN?


click here:


http://teamstats.macnn.com/fold/stats.php?page=a1&TID=3446&sort=StatsTotal&order=desc&range=100


That will bring you to our stats page on MacNN. If you want to see stats for each user, then click on their rank number.

[Don't panic]

That is insane. I'm up to 15,000 a day now. I should be at 20,000 a day by the weekend. Team Macrumors is going straight to the top!


280 GHz and counting: truly amazing JT! Do you have much more to add or are you reaching plateau? thanks to you (and all the other dedicated folders) now we're over 50K/day, heading to the top 10!!!

(...and, with a little bit more effort, we're ready to start gaining back on team mac os x)

it would be nice to have two mac teams in the top 10, (of course, most of the machines are not macs, but we don't have to advertise that part...)

[imaswitcheryeah]

click here:


http://teamstats.macnn.com/fold/stats.php?page=a1&TID=3446&sort=StatsTotal&order=desc&range=100


That will bring you to our stats page on MacNN. If you want to see stats for each user, then click on their rank number.

Cool, thanks. Too bad they don't have these stats for ALL teams like Extreme Overclocking.

[jethroted]

280 GHz and counting: truly amazing JT! Do you have much more to add or are you reaching plateau? thanks to you (and all the other dedicated folders) now we're over 50K/day, heading to the top 10!!!

(...and, with a little bit more effort, we're ready to start gaining back on team mac os x)

it would be nice to have two mac teams in the top 10, (of course, most of the machines are not macs, but we don't have to advertise that part...)


I have lots more to add still. Yay!

[Rower_CPU]

I have lots more to add still. Yay!

Simply amazing...you're turning into quite the one man powerhouse! :eek: :D

We'll be able to take the #1 Mac team spot back in short order if this keeps up. :)

[cjc343]

This is great.... and you say you still have a lot more to go? :D We'll be asking for the #1 Mac Folding team spot back in a few weeks!

Format:

Date MM.DD.YY
Points that day
WU's that day


06.02.04
17,190
331

06.01.04
13,053
266

05.31.04
11,526
201

[MacFan26]

yay, kudos for all you folding people! Too bad I only have access to two computers for folding. But they're going all the time!

[yoman]

Jethro you are amazing 312.4 GHz of power. :eek: :D

Top 10 here we come

[Cprossu]

we have had a few disturbing developments turn up over in the folding-community forums....rather than pointing fingers or anything here's the link..

http://forum.folding-community.org/viewtopic.php?t=8158

[Rower_CPU]

we have had a few disturbing developments turn up over in the folding-community forums....rather than pointing fingers or anything here's the link..

http://forum.folding-community.org/viewtopic.php?t=8158

Interesting. Any idea what's going on there, JT?

[altair]

Holy balls, easy way to hit 10k pnts i suppose

[cjc343]

This is very disturbing. However, the user name is "jethroted@yahoo.com"

I don't thing that would return points to "jethroted" but I don't really know.


:confused: doing a search for "jethroted@yahoo.com" using the "is exactly" option on Stanford DOES bring up "Jethroted" though.....

To those of you from folding-community: Did this ever complete a work unit?


it sounds like the client was modified to ask for full processor power but at a higher priority than idle.... like maximum.

Jethroted: is there a (easy) way to uninstall the client you created? Or for testing purposes will I need to back up my hard drive and then reinstall?

Sorry to doubt you, but this IS pretty serious.

[haysdb]

This is very disturbing. However, the user name is "jethroted@yahoo.com"

I don't thing that would return points to "jethroted" but I don't really know.
This allows two users, one user@xxx and the other user@yyy (i.e. same username but different domain), to be kept separate in Stanford's database. The domain name is not displayed, but is used "behind the scenes" to maintain unique user names.

This is how I understand it anyway.

David

[Cprossu]

Did this ever complete a work unit?
we think not.. but we dont know if this was the only person affected by this either

[jethroted]

we have had a few disturbing developments turn up over in the folding-community forums....rather than pointing fingers or anything here's the link..

http://forum.folding-community.org/viewtopic.php?t=8158


That looks like the files tied to the folding@home app I developed. How did you get a hold of that? If you want to take it off your compter, then just delete the entire win32 folder. You should not even have access to that msi installer however. I really want to know where it came from, and how you got it. It should have been called "folding.msi"

[Cprossu]

thanks for responding...

quite frankly i have no idea on how or where he got it...

[jethroted]

thanks for responding...

quite frankly i have no idea on how or where he got it...


A few people have emailed me saying that they had it on their machine and wanted it off. Naturally I told them how to remove it, but I don't know where they are getting it from. I have it on too many machines at work to be able to keep track of what the users might be doing with it. I'll start asking around to see if anyone knows anything.

[Cprossu]

well I'm starting to formulate a theory...since no one remembers installing it


what if one of the computers you gave that file was infected with email virus which relied on a installer file named the same as yours......when this person with your email got the msi file, it happened to be named the same as the viruses own msi file, so the viruses msi got overwrit and the virus is instead spreading your folding msi and installing it instead of the viruses code....

just a thought since almost nothing else adds up :confused:

which isnt good :(

[cjc343]

How often do government machines get sold?

Who else did you send the folding.msi installer to?

Did you put it anywhere on the internet? in other words: could someone have downloaded it and modified it? Does anyone else have the source?

[jethroted]

How often do government machines get sold?

Who else did you send the folding.msi installer to?

Did you put it anywhere on the internet? in other words: could someone have downloaded it and modified it? Does anyone else have the source?

All of the machines we are putting folding on are either brand new machines we are installing right now, or older ones that are being re-imaged. None of the ones that are being shipped out will get folding on them. They are gone before I get there, and the old ones go into storage for years before they are distributed out again.

There are a some other people out there who I gave it to, I should be able to trust those people though. However I am the only one with the source msi files.

[cjc343]

How many reports of this have you seen?

[jethroted]

How many reports of this have you seen?

This is the third this week. I didn't think much of it at first, but now I really don't like what I see. For now I am not going to be installing anymore at work until I can figure out exactly what the problem is here. That means that we will not be able to catch team mac osx, but I don't want to take any chances right now.

[Rower_CPU]

This is the third this week. I didn't think much of it at first, but now I really don't like what I see. For now I am not going to be installing anymore at work until I can figure out exactly what the problem is here. That means that we will not be able to catch team mac osx, but I don't want to take any chances right now.

Good call. Don't worry about the team's position - making sure your stuff is on the up-and-up takes priority.

We've got lots of time to work on passing other teams. ;)

[Cprossu]

keep us at folding-community updated with any further developments-thanks in advance

[jethroted]

If anyone catches wind of anything please let me know asap. Send an email if you hear anything related to it.

Thanks.

[cjc343]

well, with your help we have already lost one of the teams trailing us.... and added another on the takeover list.

Cprossu: I (and probably Jethroted too) will try to keep you all up to date on what is happening... although it feels more as though the majority of the discussion is now on your boards.

[cjc343]

This is the third this week.

Check with the other two and ask if they have installed all of the latest security patches.... if not, that could clear things up a little in that it would tell us that a ex-vulnerability in Windows is being exploited.

[jethroted]

Check with the other two and ask if they have installed all of the latest security patches.... if not, that could clear things up a little in that it would tell us that a ex-vulnerability in Windows is being exploited.

Actually one guy was under the impression that he was installing a crack for some illegal software he was trying to pirate. He refused to tell me where he got it from. He wrote me and got mad at me because it wasn't the crack, and that he couldn't crack his software. I didn't know where to start with him. The other guy was cryptic and sounded crazy. I thought it was one of my friends playing tricks on me. This is the actual email:

"I neither ACQUIRED nor INSTALLED folding@home.

As best I could ascertain, the S/W was surreptitiously foisted onto my
system via "GOOGLE". This is NOT meant to imply or accuse GOOGLE of
being
naughty -
Some 'factor' has tricked GOOGLE into doing the work ... somehow.

I started combing my registry and discovered references to "FAH" and
some
of the directories / files I discovered in "C:\WIN32".

"FahCore_65.exe" was running for quite a while until I tracked it down.

Unfortunately I trashed all sorts of registry entries and 'temp' files
in
order to expunge all traces of that crap from my system - I have no
idea of
how / how long the thing was installed. I never ran a prog caleed
'folding.msi' - I would have seen it in a registry search when I looked
for
"folding", "home", "folding @ home" early in the saga.

Maybe "Al Qauida" is behind the whole affair ??? :) - I do live in
Israel.

I might add that your using the E-name of JethroTed coupled
with
the stated 'functionality' of your master-work could cause some folks
to
surmise that thou hast a slightly criminal mind.

In any case, I hope that all the oncological surgery I've had to
perform
for the last several hours has "gotten all the malignancy". A real PITA
'twas.

Since you say YOU didn't "do it", perhaps we should contact the FBI,
Interpol, CERT, SWAT, ACLU, SPCA, et. al. ... there may be a conspiracy
in
process.

BTW, what's all that crud re: Stanford U. and protein pooh ???


Regards,

BR"

[Cprossu]

:eek:
eeek

[cjc343]

ok... so not very cooperative.... that doesn't help...


Have you tried something like "I did not make this application do this, I believe someone else has. It is critical that I know where you downloaded this so that I can stop whoever is doing this."?

I don't know whether the person would be very nice about it, but that information could REALLY help.

[cjc343]

:eek:
eeek


:D that was my first reaction too!

[jethroted]

ok... so not very cooperative.... that doesn't help...


Have you tried something like "I did not make this application do this, I believe someone else has. It is critical that I know where you downloaded this so that I can stop whoever is doing this."?

I don't know whether the person would be very nice about it, but that information could REALLY help.

I tried to get any info I could from the guy, but I got no response at all. That is why I thought he was someone I knew just pulling my leg. Anyway, I'm headed to bed for the night. Check back with you guys in the morning.

[cjc343]

you think the one you posted was a friend, or the other one?

[Cprossu]

/me has a big headache.....

well im off to bed myself(and will check it in the morning as well)

[jethroted]

you think the one you posted was a friend, or the other one?

I thought the crazy guy was a friend, but now I don't think it is.

[Cprossu]

Finally we are getting somewhere
I downloaded keygens off of BearShare (thats the P2P network I use) for Adobe PhotoShop 7.0, Cool Edit Pro 2.1, and Adobe Audition 1.0


now all that's left to do is figure out how it got there and how to rid of it

[Cprossu]

futhermore there is evidence it is a cool edit pro 2.1 keygen....since i didnt find in either adobe (in any download i found) and the fact he mentioned that he only noticed it after the cool edit one...



jethroted- is there any chance that someone at your work is running bearshare?

[jethroted]

futhermore there is evidence it is a cool edit pro 2.1 keygen....since i didnt find in either adobe (in any download i found) and the fact he mentioned that he only noticed it after the cool edit one...



jethroted- is there any chance that someone at your work is running bearshare?

I doubt it. We have so many proxy's and firewalls. You could never get out.

[jethroted]

well I'm headed to work. Keep me posted.

[cjc343]

You just hit your first 20,000 in one day... good job... now all we need is for this mess to be cleaned up so you can work towards 30,000 :D

[jethroted]

You just hit your first 20,000 in one day... good job... now all we need is for this mess to be cleaned up so you can work towards 30,000 :D

It's unfortunate that this couldn't be more of a celebration, but that's life I guess. I have not heard much from anyone lately. Has anyone come up with anything?

[cjc343]

so much for needing you to add more machines to pass 30,000....


You are currently at 32,894 today according to EO.... and there is still quite a while left in their day.

Although it doesn't say that we will pass yet (because it uses the 24 hour average to figure it out) we are currently on a course that will let us overtake Team Mac OS X...

So far today, we have gotten 56,710 points. They have gotten a mere 37,846. I hope our 24 hour average soon reflects this.....

[britboy]

So far today, we have gotten 56,710 points. They have gotten a mere 37,846. I hope our 24 hour average soon reflects this.....

What's amazing is that this can be attributed to just one person. He's more than doubled our daily production compared to a week ago. If Jethroted keeps this up for long enough, he could become the No.1 folder in the world! :eek:

[cjc343]

True.... although it will still take a LONG time at the current rate.

I think that your (Jethroted) machines are just finishing their initial Tinker (most new clients get assigned a Tinker) and will now start to REALLY churn out points.

[cjc343]

you've got 3 more hours.... currently at > 40,000 points in one day!

[kbonnel]

Man, and I was just happy being one of the top 20 producers. I guess I need to find more computers :)

Kimo

[Mustang Mac]

I must admit it is quite astounding. jethroted you work with the government you said? Do they EVER shut the systems down? How big of a facility do you work at, which state is it in? I've got a couple of uncles that work with the FBI and a few friends that work for the Postal Service, maybe I can persuade them to give folding a long hard look and discuss it with those in charge. I never really knew the goverment had so much wasted power to harness. How did you go about approaching the department heads to get them on board, or are you the head honcho? Did you have to do all the deployment on your own, or did you have some help in getting things up and running? How do you monitor things to be sure no lockups or unit errors occur? How can you make all the machines work through the 'corporate firewall'? Sometimes I have trouble with my own little network with timeouts, etc. Would'nt it be a headache to keep track of all the machines you have folding? Give more details so I can best approach some potential sources. Thanks. Keep up the fold!

[MrMacMan]

You really think he is going to give away which government agency he works for?

I really really doubt that.

How about this:
Me: 'Do you have clearance?'
You: 'Yes, the highest level'
Me: 'Nope. Not high enough'
:rolleyes:


All hail jethroted!
All hail jethroted!


Good frikken Job man.

Awesome work.

[Dreadnought]

not 10.000, not 20.000, make that over 47.000 points in 1 day.... :eek:

[cjc343]

not 10.000, not 20.000, make that over 47.000 points in 1 day.... :eek:

Wait for tomorrow... I bet he'll produce a number equal to what Team MacOS X is.... ;) (about 50,000 to 60,000 depending on the day)

[mc68k]

jethroted's like some kind of nerd superhero :)

[Dreadnought]

Our hero :D

[jethroted]

I must admit it is quite astounding. jethroted you work with the government you said? Do they EVER shut the systems down? How big of a facility do you work at, which state is it in? I've got a couple of uncles that work with the FBI and a few friends that work for the Postal Service, maybe I can persuade them to give folding a long hard look and discuss it with those in charge. I never really knew the goverment had so much wasted power to harness. How did you go about approaching the department heads to get them on board, or are you the head honcho? Did you have to do all the deployment on your own, or did you have some help in getting things up and running? How do you monitor things to be sure no lockups or unit errors occur? How can you make all the machines work through the 'corporate firewall'? Sometimes I have trouble with my own little network with timeouts, etc. Would'nt it be a headache to keep track of all the machines you have folding? Give more details so I can best approach some potential sources. Thanks. Keep up the fold!


Well that spike from yesterday should drop back down unfortunately. I think that was an anomoly. As far as the firewall goes, as long as the person who logs in to the system has a valid domain account then folding can make it through the firewall, since port 80 or 8080 is open to domain users. As far as monitoring anything, I don't. I kind of hope for the best. All the systems are on all day long, that is standard policy. I guess they like to pay a big hydro bill. I am on a deployment team that is upgrading the systems to XP and dell p4's. There are 6000 computers to go through but some of them are actually only being upgraded from Windows 95 to NT. Those are only P2's. When we get to a site, we talk to the site contact and ask them if we can install folding, and if they agree we put it on each time we wrap up an install or upgrade. So folding sits on the server and all we have to do is enter the url to the MSI file I made, select "open" and 20 seconds later the computer restarts and is folding.

[Mustang Mac]

So, all these systems are not in the same physical place? You have to visit different sites to perform system upgrades? Are these actual physical upgrades (processors, cards, drives, etc.), OS upgrades, or a combination of the two? If they are physical upgrades, what happens to all the 'outdated' equipment? Do they then sell it to resellers or what? How many other colleagues do you have working with you to upgrade all these systems? It sounds like a lot of tedious work for just one man. How many hours a day does it take you to do all this? You must never rest! :) Are you still adding more systems to the fold? When do you expect the return to level off?

[jethroted]

So, all these systems are not in the same physical place? You have to visit different sites to perform system upgrades? Are these actual physical upgrades (processors, cards, drives, etc.), OS upgrades, or a combination of the two? If they are physical upgrades, what happens to all the 'outdated' equipment? Do they then sell it to resellers or what? How many other colleagues do you have working with you to upgrade all these systems? It sounds like a lot of tedious work for just one man. How many hours a day does it take you to do all this? You must never rest! :) Are you still adding more systems to the fold? When do you expect the return to level off?


Yeah, the machines are all over the place. The gov't isn't in just one building. There is no physical hardware that is being upgraded on the P2's. We are just moving them up from 95 to NT. The computers that we replace with new P4's are stuck in a warehouse where they will probably sit for years until they are so obsolete that no one will ever want them, then they will be tossed. I think they hold onto them just incase anyone might still need them for something, but of course no one ever does. I work on a team of about 30 and we come in at 4pm every night when the users leave. It's a 6 day work week for us. Unfortunately I am currently not adding any more machines to the fold.

[Cprossu]

Unfortunately I am currently not adding any more machines to the fold


yeah i hear yuh...

im still trying to contact chad about getting that file.
there is obviously a real virus as well inside that package as hotmail deleted it...

[jethroted]

yeah i hear yuh...

im still trying to contact chad about getting that file.
there is obviously a real virus as well inside that package as hotmail deleted it...

Hotmail deleted it? How could there be a virus in there?

[Mustang Mac]

Are these machines all server oriented or a mix of workstations and servers? Any idea why they chose to go with NT? Why would they let those useful machines languish in a warehouse somewhere?! One would think they would try to recoup some of the money for the costly upgrades! Do you guys remove the old HD and put it in the new machines, or is it a simple 'data transfer'? Must get pretty boring just watching software install itself. :) How long have you been at this job? What kind of credentials do they make you carry, or more specifically, how does one go about preparing for such a job? Any grad prep, technical institute prep, undergrad, or junior college? Any opportunity for advancement, or will you be aiming higher?

[cjc343]

Hotmail deleted it? How could there be a virus in there?

I posted this on Folding-Community:

It is probably in the .exe format, or in a format used for installers. i believe hotmail blocks both.

[jethroted]

Well I have talked to Vijay Pande at Stanford and we are trying to come up with a solution to this whole problem. Hopefully we can end this whole mess.

[Dreadnought]

Sure hope so, because it's time you entered a couple of new pc's to the cause, your production is going flat! :D

[MrMacMan]

Sure hope so, because it's time you entered a couple of new pc's to the cause, your production is going flat! :D
sure sure sure.

[cjc343]

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=876535#post876535

Near the end of the first page + first post on the second page.


I want an explanation/current standing from Jethroted, and I want to hear Mustang Mac's evidence.

[Don't panic]

a really unfortunate affair.
Hopefully it won't surface in the main media stream and damage f@h. I think that Pande's action were fair and I hope nothing more serious is in store for JT.
Once he abandons his plan to take over the world (them plans never work, didn't you read comics as a kid?) he maybe will re-start legit folding.

i'm doubtful at what actually happened though, and would appreciate a candid explanation from jt.
I'm still willing to give him the benefit of the doubt (not that my opinion makes any difference), but i'd like to know whether there ever was a govt agency and govt machines, and in what proportion the contribution was legit. If not, i'm fairly impressed on how quickly the thing spread (but I'm not familiar with p2p network, so maybe its normal).

there are also other questions that come to mind:
will pandegroup be able to contact and/or clean the infected machines, or will the illegitimate folding continue unchecked? will it propagate more? will they keep the data?
the first unwilling user that raised the problem in the folding forums, posted a log that said that fah was not able to fold properly, so THAT specific computer wasn't producing any WU. what gives? where multiple scripts diffused? and why putting usage at high %?

well, back to folding

[Dreadnought]

Jethroted, if you are still there and can to a computer with internet on it, please let us hear from you.

[jethroted]

Once everything has been settled with Vijay and the folding team I will resume normal interaction with the board.

[OC-AMD]

will pandegroup be able to contact and/or clean the infected machines, or will the illegitimate folding continue unchecked? will it propagate more? will they keep the data?


The folding client has already been stopped on most machines and for those which try to obtain a new WU they to will be stopped at that time.

It will still propagate because it is in the wild on p2p networks such as Limewire and Bearshare, but it will not be able to fold if installed.

the first unwilling user that raised the problem in the folding forums, posted a log that said that fah was not able to fold properly, so THAT specific computer wasn't producing any WU. what gives? where multiple scripts diffused? and why putting usage at high %?

The person that raised the problem was folding just fine... he killed the FAHcore_78.exe process from within taskmgr, but not the client. If he did not see the process running, he would of submitted finished WU's.


I do hope after this is all said and done that everyone can get back to the project and have fun folding!! :)

[Don't panic]

The folding client has already been stopped on most machines and for those which try to obtain a new WU they to will be stopped at that time.

It will still propagate because it is in the wild on p2p networks such as Limewire and Bearshare, but it will not be able to fold if installed.



The person that raised the problem was folding just fine... he killed the FAHcore_78.exe process from within taskmgr, but not the client. If he did not see the process running, he would of submitted finished WU's.


I do hope after this is all said and done that everyone can get back to the project and have fun folding!! :)

thanks for the explanation and congratulations for your amazing contribution to folding

[Cprossu]

I do hope after this is all said and done that everyone can get back to the project and have fun folding!!
I 100% agree.

[Rower_CPU]

Stanford's official announcement (http://forum.folding-community.org/viewtopic.php?t=8213)

[NoahJ]

What, no delete option? :D

[Rower_CPU]

http://forum.folding-community.org/viewtopic.php?t=8213

Beat ya by a minute. ;)