Have I been highjacked?

[Guest]

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Just finished signing in at my newsgroup provider (giganews.com)
website, and was greeted with this message

====================================================================
Welcome, My Name Here!

New Europe Server Cluster!
We have detected that you are coming from a European Internet
location. If you are using Giganews from Europe, try our new Europe
server cluster. Just change your newsreader to point to
news-europe.giganews.com!
====================================================================

Now why would they be reporting my 'USA' ISP as being in Europe?
My Norton antivirus program, ad-aware, and spybot are all uptodate,
and don't seem to find anything wrong. I'm wondering if I'm being
re-routed by someone.

 

[Guest]

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Hmm, doesn't sound like a hardware problem.

You may wish to try another more appropriate newsgroup and/or a Giganews
help forum if one exists.

r.


<wooly.bully@somewhere.com> wrote in message
news:b30n11dhu2pqaoc9pjjpkdkccdc9ol33ng@4ax.com...
> Just finished signing in at my newsgroup provider (giganews.com)
> website, and was greeted with this message
>
> ====================================================================
> Welcome, My Name Here!
>
> New Europe Server Cluster!
> We have detected that you are coming from a European Internet
> location. If you are using Giganews from Europe, try our new Europe
> server cluster. Just change your newsreader to point to
> news-europe.giganews.com!
> ====================================================================
>
> Now why would they be reporting my 'USA' ISP as being in Europe?
> My Norton antivirus program, ad-aware, and spybot are all uptodate,
> and don't seem to find anything wrong. I'm wondering if I'm being
> re-routed by someone.

 

[galen]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

In news:b30n11dhu2pqaoc9pjjpkdkccdc9ol33ng@4ax.com,
wooly.bully@somewhere.com <wooly.bully@somewhere.com> had this to say:


> Just finished signing in at my newsgroup provider (giganews.com)
> website, and was greeted with this message

You probably havn't been hijacked. First are you using a proxy server?
Second has your IP address been leased from a company in Europe by an
American ISP? Third are your settings in your control panel > regional and
language options set to the United States? It's probably one of the first
two.

Galen
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