Hey Wendell

Yeah, Avast is blocking a Trojan Horse every time I refresh. The notice doesn't stay up long enough for me to write it all down but it's something to do with Facebook. The part I wrote down was something like plugin/like.php?/href http blah blah...

I went to RPLS and Avast blocked a Malware with rpls in its name.

Surveyors under attack!!

Now I have had to turn off Avast to even log on. Bad idea I know, but I need some help.

Avast is alerting me, but shutting me down before logging onto the net.

crap,

One thing or another.

Backing up right now.

Wendell, I can get emails on my Andriod, so if you have any help, that will be where I can be reached.

I have not had a bug in years, but this seems pretty serious.

Stupid Facebook or something.

Randy

I think Avast mussed up. I was getting the same warning at multiple sites. I manually updated Avast downloading the latest and greatest definitions and everything is working now.

I had a meeting this morning and just got back. I didn't get the warning from Avast this morning before I left, but it showed up when I returned. Turns out it is definitely Avast catching a false positive. I did receive an update first thing this morning, and apparently it contained a bug that created the false positive.

I tried updating my virus definitions, but they were already up-to-date. However, I tried updating the program itself, and sure enough, that fixed the problem. Avast is aware of the problem and has released patches, so be sure to update both the virus definitions and the program (right-click orange ball in taskbar, Open Avast interface, Maintenance, Update and click each of the Update buttons).

It seems like the crisis is averted. When all that started happening, anything I did online would bring up an alert from Avast that they had blocked a Trojan or Malware. I did a Full System Scan that found 279 infected files and it recommended that I do a BootTime Scan so I did. It found tons of stuff apparently but it got to some things that it couldn't delete or repair so I hit ignore and it seemed pointless to spend the rest of the day ignoring infected files so I quit at about 40% and it said it had found over 16,000 infected files, seemingly infected with only a couple of different things, like I know what I'm talking about. Then I came back on here to see how things were going, updated Avast per Wendell's advice and everything seems back to normal. Maybe it was nothing anyway, but kind of scary. I thought there was some kind of world-wide cyber-attack.

I talked another guy I work with into loading Avast into his computer so he did and after it did its initial scan, finding about 25 infected files, he tried to go back online and something told him to restart and I thought his computer was fried because it kept going back and forth from blue-screen-of-death to the regular XP loading screen. He finally got it to boot up from the last config that worked and we're hoping for the best tomorrow.

I'm pretty sure someone poured Coors into their Beer Leg and that is what started it all.

And Steve, I am in Unit 4 of my Subdivision. I am finding the centerline pipes except for the ones that obviously got blown out by trenching or pavement patches. But I can't find any in Unit 2 (generally south of me). I think they may never have gotten set. Unit 2 is February 1953 and Unit 4 is September 1954. I have not looked in Unit 3 yet. I blamed the County for blowing out the P.I. east of me but now I think maybe it was never there in the first place because it is in Unit 2 (although Unit 4 shows the open circle).

We were in a 1959 Spink subdivision in the Fruitridge area today and nothing was set anywhere, but the street improvements fit together pretty well. Well enough to stake out a utility easement for a new phone cabinet. Sometimes they set everything fairly tight, sometimes nothing at all, sometimes they set everything but very sloppy.

A couple of years ago I surveyed a larger property which was controlled by a 1960± Spink subdivision. No problem there. The 1970s vintage Murray Smith subdivsion to the west and north was a problem. Although the map shows setting the pipes I couldn't find any in that subdivision, even ones that should be there. I suspect they never got set; MS either forgot or blew it off and the County never made them do it. Just to qualify, I didn't look at every last P.I. and BC/EC (several hundred lot subd) and I suppose it is possible that the streets got gutted and repaved but they don't look like it. There was a little later GW subdivision to the north which had everything and right where they said it was so it wasn't a big deal just glad I didn't have to try to survey one of MS's lots.

This is not an excuse but in the 1960's and 1970's in Sacramento, the subdivisions were going in so fast, it was hard to keep track of what you had monumented and what you hadn't and the County didn't follow up at all. Some of the streets didn't get built for quite awhile after the maps got recorded so it was easy for the street monuments to be forgotten. As far as Spink maps go, they usually showed a few major subdivision corners being monumented and that was it, although many of their projects got pipes in centerline that weren't even on the maps and those inch-and-a-half pipes at the subdivision corners were sometimes a hub and tack and even if they were set, they were landscaped out pretty rapidly.

In the '70s and '80s, Spink had been so big for so long, I think they got the idea that monumenting their subdivisions was un-necessary because who else but them would be working in those areas? Me, for one person, trying to stake out the utility trenches before the streets got built with very minimal control. We could usually piece it together from some grade stakes they had set, close enough for what we were doing.

What this has to do with the original subject, I don't know, but Dave started it.

> What this has to do with the original subject, I don't know, but Dave started it.

Ghosts of Surveys past 000000000.........

L.A. County makes up for Sacramento County by having the monument and 4 tangent ties at every P.I. 🙂

In Sacramento, if you had a monument and 4 ties, how many intersections would you have? Is this a combination or a permutation math question? Been awhile since I took statistics three times.