Giveaway of the Day Forums » Installation and activation problems

121. jplutchok
     Member

     BuBBy, thank you for your reply to my new Activation forum posting, which you then closed. Oops! I apologize for forgetting the forum rules. I am ashamed, and will try to read and remember the rules better for next time.

     Meanwhile, do you have any idea why I occasionally cannot activate a giveaway? I get the "failed to connect" message sometimes. This is an XP SP2 ThinkPad. It's behind a corporate firewall, which I cannot configure -- but that has not interfered with activating many other giveaways at other times. Of course, it only happens for the giveaways I want the most. :-(

     Any help you can offer would be very much appreciated.

     Posted 3 months ago #

122. BuBBy
     Administrator

     Is it possible there have been any changes made at all to the firewall rules? (can you connect without going via any proxy server?)

     Can you connect from "outside" the firewall - or your home network - if it works then it isn't your laptop.

     Easy Money is on the firewall as the likely culprit. (Activation worked fine for me first time - so the GOTD end of the deal looks ok).

     Posted 3 months ago # | Login to Send PM

123. jplutchok
     Member

     Thank you for your prompt reply, BuBBy. I activated the same offering (yesterday's) with no problems on my Vista ThinkPad at home, so the GOTD end is OK. Suspicion of course falls first on the corporate firewall, but then why would other giveaway activations have worked?

     Here's a thought: does Avtivate.exe go to the same URL or domain every time? If it goes to different URLs or domains, perhaps some are blocked and others not? I'm clutching at straws here...

     Out of curiosity, I just tried to run Setup.exe for today's giveaway (Partition Recovery) on the office XP ThinkPad, and it failed to connect to giveawayoftheday.com again. This would seem to be more evidence against the firewall, right?
     Thanks again for your help!

     Posted 3 months ago #

124. hotdoge3
     Member

     1110 TCP AVP.EXE -R [ Firewall Port's # ]
     19780 TCP AVP.EXE -R
     1501 TCP AVP.EXE -R
     1509 TCP AVP.EXE -R
     1511 TCP AVP.EXE -R
     1513 TCP AVP.EXE -R
     1516 TCP AVP.EXE -R
     1519 TCP AVP.EXE -R
     1522 TCP AVP.EXE -R
     1079 TCP System
     1521 TCP System
     123 UDP SVCHOST.EXE -K NETSVCS
     123 UDP SVCHOST.EXE -K NETSVCS
     1453 TCP FIREFOX.EXE "HTTP://WWW.GIVEAWAYOFTHEDAY.COM/PDF-2-HTML/?ACTIVATE"
     1454 TCP FIREFOX.EXE "HTTP://WWW.GIVEAWAYOFTHEDAY.COM/PDF-2-HTML/?ACTIVATE"
     1455 TCP FIREFOX.EXE "HTTP://WWW.GIVEAWAYOFTHEDAY.COM/PDF-2-HTML/?ACTIVATE"
     1456 TCP FIREFOX.EXE "HTTP://WWW.GIVEAWAYOFTHEDAY.COM/PDF-2-HTML/?ACTIVATE"
     1499 TCP FIREFOX.EXE "HTTP://WWW.GIVEAWAYOFTHEDAY.COM/PDF-2-HTML/?ACTIVATE"
     1502 TCP FIREFOX.EXE "HTTP://WWW.GIVEAWAYOFTHEDAY.COM/PDF-2-HTML/?ACTIVATE"
     1504 TCP FIREFOX.EXE "HTTP://WWW.GIVEAWAYOFTHEDAY.COM/PDF-2-HTML/?ACTIVATE"
     1508 TCP FIREFOX.EXE "HTTP://WWW.GIVEAWAYOFTHEDAY.COM/PDF-2-HTML/?ACTIVATE"
     1514 TCP FIREFOX.EXE "HTTP://WWW.GIVEAWAYOFTHEDAY.COM/PDF-2-HTML/?ACTIVATE"
     1517 TCP FIREFOX.EXE "HTTP://WWW.GIVEAWAYOFTHEDAY.COM/PDF-2-HTML/?ACTIVATE" you only need one's say Firefox,I can not see port # 80
     All so need to tell Kaspersky,spyware terminator firewall yes to out,on spyware terminator you need to tick show blocked alert,or you not know,and one time was failed to connect & try later & all ok.

     Posted 2 months ago #

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