Re: paypal down!

[Kevin Day]

On Nov 15, 2005, at 9:45 PM, Hannigan, Martin wrote:
> > >                                  www.paypal.com
> > >
> > >                              Internal Server Error
> > >
> > > The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was
> > > unable to complete your request.
> > >
> > > Please contact the server administrator,
> > webmaster@paypal.com and inform
> > > them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might
> > have done
> > > that may have caused the error.
> > >
> > > More information about this error may be available in the
> > server error
> > > log.
> > Works for me.  Same BS splash advertising that always comes
> > up.  Damn that
> > is annoying.
> Yes, but it *is* up. Same here. Probably one of the rotation web  
> servers had
> an issue or something minor.

Or there's a chance that you've got a trojan/malware install on the  
computer.

I had someone contact me the other day with a nearly identical  
complaint, "Why have PayPal and eBay been down all day?" They were  
alternately getting a 404 or 503 for those sites, but everything else  
worked. Their hosts file had entries for ebay, google, a number of  
banks, common phishing targets. Even more fun was when I deleted the  
hosts file, after his next reboot it pulled an updated hosts file  
with new working IPs from somewhere.

I'm guessing the malware phishers don't have a five-nines array of  
redundant proxies yet. :)