Thai Govt' Blocks CNN, Yahoo Finance, Facebook And Other American Sites

[hkt83100]

Using TT&T Maxnet Premier. My Yahoo is blocked. Facebook & CNN are working fine.

Yahoo works for me, Maxnet Cheep Charly,

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[george]

Things seem to have normalized now, with most users from Thailand able to access the various sites that were blocked for best part of Monday.

Hope it will stay this way!

[moskito]

Make sure your Earth is grounded and that you are receiving the correct voltage, no way powercuts should lead to that many failures, I must have pulled the power cable out and in 500 odd times on my router (no on/off or reset switch) and its fine.

no clue where in Thailand you live Benji, but in Phuket it is very common and I am not the only one with broken Electric parts after a Powercut.

To make sure the correct voltage like you mentioned is not so easy like it sounds. After a powercut the voltage is much to high wich lead to

the damages.....and i am too lazy to take the plugs out always

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@alex999

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[Maestro]

immigration.go.th are still busy cleaning up their site.

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Maestro

[thailenol]

I was on a few of the sites all weekend up to today and had no problems. Strange.

[Shazza]

I have CNN and Facebook no problem. with True

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[Somrak]

that explains it! My 90 Reporting is due this week and I visited the site last night just to get the latest and My NOD32 went ballistic, and immediately flashed up a warning. Thankfully NOD, at my request for immediate action. terminated the offending script.

.... TIT ... over 200 warnings, trojans, wurms, ....

[moskito]

anyone here checked out what these, Trojans do?

whats in the script? for which data they search your pc?

no programmers here`?

hard to belive they check on thousands of computers, infos mostly in ENGLISH but cant answer a single EMAL

[Ricardo]

anyone here checked out what these, Trojans do?

Does a Trojan need a Work-Permit, to work for the Thai Immigration's web-site, I think we should be told !

[BangkokJazz]

Things seem to have normalized now, with most users from Thailand able to access the various sites that were blocked for best part of Monday.

Hope it will stay this way!

Then why not close the thread...

[Project504naha]

This is anti virus software blocking the sites. It seems likely that the person getting this messages have messed up himself. hat an immigration site is blocked is understandable. Lots of incompetent IT people working for governments allow wholes the size of Bangkok for malware to penetrate.

But there is nothing wrong with my computers I can access all the so called blocked sites from three different ISP's

and............"ditto"

[infernalman7]

No. The problem was a wrong configuration at the CAT International Internet Gateway which happens to be the largest international internet gateway of Thailand where all the websites redirect to w3.mict.go.th through there. This explains why this happens for only some people but not everyone. CAT is one of the 7 International Internet Gateways of Thailand therefore your connection may go through other IIGs.

True Internet utilizes both the CAT IIG and True IIG.

Maxnet and TOT also utilize both of their own and CAT's.

That explains why it didn't happen to everyone and not every single time you request a website.

Hope this answers some of your doubts.

[caf]

No. The problem was a wrong configuration at the CAT International Internet Gateway which happens to be the largest international internet gateway of Thailand where all the websites redirect to w3.mict.go.th through there. This explains why this happens for only some people but not everyone. CAT is one of the 7 International Internet Gateways of Thailand therefore your connection may go through other IIGs.

True Internet utilizes both the CAT IIG and True IIG.

Maxnet and TOT also utilize both of their own and CAT's.

That explains why it didn't happen to everyone and not every single time you request a website.

Hope this answers some of your doubts.

So was the thread "Thai government blocks...." inaccurate and alarmist

[OriginalPoster]

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Edited December 15, 2009 by OriginalPoster

[Muppy]

no problem with hotel internet, facebook, didnt use cnn, last day of stay fri 11 dec 09 . bts areas.

florida hotel(phaya thai), de luxury(asok), diamond house (ratchetewi)

however, facebook chat rarely works anyway in bkk.

[Benjie]

Make sure your Earth is grounded and that you are receiving the correct voltage, no way powercuts should lead to that many failures, I must have pulled the power cable out and in 500 odd times on my router (no on/off or reset switch) and its fine.

no clue where in Thailand you live Benji, but in Phuket it is very common and I am not the only one with broken Electric parts after a Powercut.

To make sure the correct voltage like you mentioned is not so easy like it sounds. After a powercut the voltage is much to high wich lead to

the damages.....and i am too lazy to take the plugs out always

I also live in Phuket and suffer from loads of power cuts but a power cut should not break that much electronic equipment. To make sure of the voltage you simply get a proper electrician to come round, he can plug a gizmo into your recepticle and it will tell you the exact voltage.

I have 4 computers (2 of which always on), wireless and wired networking, loads of lcd and plasma Tv's, projector, multi room sound system etc... and in 2 years I've lost about 5 light bulbs and no equipment. My house is grounded properly though.

[MaxLee]

What's that crap all about, everything is working far for the next 2 days... no problem with anything, Facebook, CNN are whatever website....

is this a fake article or misinterpreted article causing for confusion???? what the F$#@#@@@!!!!!!!!!!

I DEMAND AN EXPLANATION!!!!!

[Totster]

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[tjansen]

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totster

I did not see this mentioned in any of the posts, so if it is repetitive, sorry. I was told by a Thai friend that a few months ago Thailand blocked certain objectionable pages on CNN, Facebook, and Yahoo Finance,for an interview (CNN), Facebook (for the person) and CNN for a report. She thought that that was possibly what this was about, although the timing doesn't sound right.

[A_Traveller]

The reality was that a probable misconfiguration caused many pages to cascade down to the mict page. End result, initially at least, was people thought there was some kind of government or ministry led 'blockade'. This was also the day of the release of the 'Thai Spy' from Cambodia and some [initially I wondered about this too] put 2 and 2 together and got 5

Regards

Link to earlier post in thread

Edited December 16, 2009 by A_Traveller

[Scott]

TV is a little like a Pub. We stay open until closing time. Punters, however, are free to go home when they want.

[cpofc]

A non-event if ever I saw one!

Whatever possesses people to post threads on the well-known vagaries of the internet here is beyond me.

I disagree. That a government website is crawling with trojans and script-exploits surely SHOULD be big news.

yes, I don't know about Facebook, CNN or anything else, I don't visit them or have accounts with any of them.

But what I do know is that clicking into the official Thai Immigration Website last week saw my NOD32 Internet Monitor flash up an immediate warning for a dangerous java script execution. NOD32 is very good and very up to date and was telling me this script was known 'malware'. I erminated the running of the script and by doing so was able to still browse the info I was looking for.

Where the danger lies, is that there is a java script Pop Up, about the new government offices in Laksi

when you enter the site so you have what is a 'legal' script executing, followed immediately by another illegal one. Thank god for NOD 32. I wonder how many machines out there have been compromised?

[cgjtt]

As of 20:00 tonight I've been unable to access yahoo.com. Site being redirected to w3.mict.go.th . Problem is, It's probably overloaded cause I get a time out. I'm unable to get my e-mails. How many people out there is this affecting ?? No problem with other sites such as CNN facebook or twitter.

browser: firefox, service provider: 3BB

[PeaceBlondie]

getting yahoo US e-mail

[DangerfieldLives]

Same problem here. 9.32pm, True Internet in Bangkok.

Yahoo's main page loads up, but click on the link for mail (or enter it directly in address bar) and gets diverted to w3.mict.go.th before turning up a "problem loading page". Facebook seems to work. As does hotmail. Why is yahoo being targeted like this? Just system overload? Why would it redirect to MICT if that were the case?

[animatic]

Looking at Yahoo, and hotmail and CNN and TVF simultaneously.

Ah, just added Facebook too.

No issues.

Edited January 10, 2010 by animatic

[DangerfieldLives]

Looking at Yahoo, and hotmail and CNN and TVF simultaneously.

Yahoo mail? ISP/Location?

Main yahoo page is fine, just the email.

[thaiphoon]

Just accessed both yahoo mail and hotmail with no problems. true/bkk

[bellste]

interesting to put this on a news ticker without checking it. It could have been the Nation they too never check facts.

Given your 3 ISP's comment, I wonder what DNS' are you using on them? Presently I can access cnn, bbc, youtube, however facebook.com is being redirected to w3.mict.go.th on TOT in Bangkok using their DNS service.

Regards

PS By the by I can ping facebook.com 69.63.184.142 fine, but on the same machine I get mict.go.th in browser.

Same thing happened to me when I searched with Opera. But when you search with Google you can log in. I have TT&T.

Edited January 10, 2010 by bellste

[lordsux]

My flickr is not getting passed w3.mict.go.th True connection in Bangkok

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