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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: 5 on May 15, 2013, 01:32 am
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I hope im just being paranoid but when I log into tor it does not do the normal where it says your ip address appears to be 234654678. It is giving me a page cannot connect?? like when SR is down. I went ahead an reinstalled an it did same thing. So I tried to type in SR url and it came right up. Plus its like my computer has someone else trying to control it?? My mouse is standing still but the arrow keeps jumping all over the page. And this is the biggest mystery for all how in the hell would I have a silkroad url icon on my home screen just like you would have a folder with a picture in it but had silkroadvb5 you know the rest. i erased it before I could even examine it. im just a small buyer but still. Please if anyone know how any of this happened please tell me. im to scared to place a freaking order now.
update as I was typing the mouse arrow quit moving around on it own. I have control over it. but still tripped out. any info would be much appreciated
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I know this won't be very useful but I want to rule out a few things if I can and some food for thought.
Random mouse movements could be possibly be a technical fault with the mouse, or maybe a virus of some kind? If you replace the current mouse you're using, do this solve the problem? Is your firewall up to date? How about your drivers, are they all up to date? Has your mouse sensitivity options been set too high in control panel?
Silkroad URL icon is worrying, but did you save the page at all by accidentally hitting Ctrl + S, I've done it once before and it freaked me out. I'd also make sure you do 3 passes when removing it just to be safe if you're not on a dedicated system.
If the normal startpage isn't checking up, perhaps it is just a temporary problem with the circuit you're running, try hitting Ctrl + F5 using a new identity and see if that works, or does it simply not even attempt to load the page?
Just some things for you to look in to.
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The same cannot connect occurred with me and my buddy today with our first time using tor. Eventually it got through to silk road after multiple refreshes.
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Not sure if this is even relevant but I had a SHIT LOAD of problems getting TOR to open up tonight. I deleted and reinstalled The TOR bundle twice. Got so frustrated I took the damn computer to the local Mcdonalds to make sure the ISP didn't put up a firewall. finally it came back to life and haven't had much problems since. As to the mouse movements ...... swap out the mouse and see if that doesn't take care of your problem especially if it is hard wired to your computer ..... meaning not wireless.
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update- I my computer started skipping pages like im hitting the back button.....then a message popped up that said you are not encrypted on the site any info can be seen by 3rd party if sent....or something along those lines.....I logged off asap....got back on tor an my address is different now like it should be. What the F was that message all about? it was at top of screen at main page of SR.
im going to chalk the icon up to accidently hitting ctrl + S
how do I give the karma to people? StExo desires one +1 an so does the other people helping me out on this post.
im using a wireless mouse.
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update- I my computer started skipping pages like im hitting the back button.....then a message popped up that said you are not encrypted on the site any info can be seen by 3rd party if sent....or something along those lines.....I logged off asap....got back on tor an my address is different now like it should be. What the F was that message all about? it was at top of screen at main page of SR.
im going to chalk the icon up to accidently hitting ctrl + S
how do I give the karma to people? StExo desires one +1 an so does the other people helping me out on this post.
im using a wireless mouse.
You need 100 posts before you can hand out karma, but I accept psychological karma too :)
As for what's happening with your Tor, I'm not sure. Perhaps deleting and reinstalling Tor will work and if that doesn't work, somebody like Pine will be the person to ask who is more familiar with the ins and outs of software than I am.
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I was having the problem earlier today where the Tor project start page wouldn't load for me either. I was still able to get onto other urls, but that page just wouldn't connect. There is a Tor Browser Bundle update that came out in the last 24 hours, and upgrading to it got rid of the problem for me.