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Submitted: Tuesday, Sep 27, 2005 at 21:09

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GOB & denny vic member

evening all
a test for the computor literate i think this 1 is for my isp .my normal homepage has diddappeared and something called a place holder page has been installed by debian gnu-linux so i have dumped mozilla and thunderbird have also lost emails now this is on both main computor and laptop and mozilla was NOT installed on lap
top below is what is on my putor AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Welcome to Your New Home in Cyberspace!

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This is a placeholder page installed by the Debian release of the Apache Web server package, because no home page was installed on this host. You may want to replace this as soon as possible with your own web pages, of course....

This computer has installed the Debian GNU/Linux operating system but has nothing to do with the Debian GNU/Linux project. If you want to report something about this host's behavior or domain, please contact the ISPs involved directly, not the Debian Project.
See the Network Abuse Clearinghouse for how to do this.

Unless you changed its configuration, your new server is configured as follows:

Configuration files can be found in /etc/apache.
The DocumentRoot, which is the directory under which all your HTML files should exist, is set to /var/www.
CGI scripts are looked for in /usr/lib/cgi-bin, which is where Debian packages will place their scripts.
Log files are placed in /var/log/apache, and will be rotated daily. The frequency of rotation can be easily changed by editing /etc/apache/cron.conf.
The default directory index is index.html, meaning that requests for a directory /foo/bar/ will give the contents of the file /var/www/foo/bar/index.html if it exists (assuming that /var/www is your DocumentRoot).
User directories are enabled, and user documents will be looked for in the public_html directory of the users' homes. These dirs should be under /home, and users will not be able to symlink to files they don't own.
All standard Apache modules are available with this release and can be chosen with the apacheconfig script. Installing a new module on your system is just a matter of compiling it (with the apache-dev package) and adding a line to your httpd.conf configuration file.
More documentation on Apache can be found on:

The Apache documentation stored on your server.
The Apache Project home site.
The ApacheWeek newsletter.
The Debian Project Documentation which contains HOWTOs, FAQs, and software updates.
You can also consult the list of World Wide Web Frequently Asked Questions for information.

If you find a bug in this Apache package, or in Apache itself, please file a bug report on it. Instructions on doing this, and the list of known bugs of this package, can be found in the Debian Bug Tracking System.

Thanks for using this package, and congratulations for your choice of a Debian system!

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Reply By: cabbageoz - Tuesday, Sep 27, 2005 at 21:40

Tuesday, Sep 27, 2005 at 21:40

When did you install Firefox on your computer?
When you installed it did you allow it to set up its own firewall and virus program.
I would thinkthat you have contracted a virus of sorts. More of a trojan horse really.
Someone has done this to allow access to your computer so they can either send spam mail or store warez [stolen or hijacked software] on it.
I presume that seeing you have it on your laptop also that you network the two machines.
It can be a bit of a pain when these things happen,however a couple of programs that you can use to stop this sort of thing happening.
Spybot search & destroy which stops all sorts of ads etc and as a side benefit also will not allow the registry to be changed without you allowing this, and system mechanic which has a good firewall and antivirus system as well as a lot of other good things to play with.
If you would like more info email me at cabbage at wideband.net.au Naturally the at is @
Cabbage

Leave nothing but footprints and take nothing but photos

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Reply By: BenSpoon - Tuesday, Sep 27, 2005 at 23:15

Tuesday, Sep 27, 2005 at 23:15

FYI The "This is a placeholder page installed by the Debian release of the Apache Web server package" is being displayed because that is the webpage you are looking at. This webpage is actually stored on a server somewhere- it is nothing to do with your own computer. There is something to be concerned about though because for as long as you are accessing that web page you may still be downloading viruses and things you dont know of in the background.

The safest way to go is to backup your files on your computer, put in your windows disk and restart it. Choose to delete the old installation of windows, and reinstall from fresh.
If that is a last resort, try using system restore (I assume you have xp)- search "System Restore overview" in xp's help centre (Start > Help and support) to go back to the settings you had at a certain point in time.

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Reply By: theshadows - Wednesday, Sep 28, 2005 at 07:43

Wednesday, Sep 28, 2005 at 07:43

just has benspon has said the homepage you where using is not there anymore.
Just use a different page as your home page.

Google search engine works for me.
nothing at all wrong with your computers.

shadow

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