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 Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 8:50 am Post subject: SCORETOP shut down? |
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| Is anyone else having difficulty accessing scoretop? It appears that the server is down or the site is shut down permanently. ANyone know? |
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 8:58 am Post subject: |
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| This was expected. If you search on this forum you will know why. |
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 11:13 am Post subject: |
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Well I'm aware there used to be copy righted material posted there However, since Jan 2007 they've stopped that and started a new VIP service.
Does anyone know if this a regular occurence with them? |
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Moved this discussion to the Lounge.
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| Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 8:31 am Post subject: ScoreTop - Creepy E-mail |
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Did anyone receive this message via e-mail about from ScoreTop:
I got alarmed with the description inside, which had all the signs of a potential "Hack" job.
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fromzhang belinda <belindazhang0310>
tomihir.urs@gmail.com
dateFri, May 16, 2008 at 5:23 AM
subjectscoretop
mailed-bygmail.com
hide details 5:23 AM (6 hours ago) Reply
Dear member,
This is an email from scoretop. I'm so sorry for this discommodiousness. If you want to access scoretop again, try following steps:
Please open the following file on your computer using Notepad:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
then add the following line to the file:
218.201.122.107mihir.urs@gmail.com www.scoretop.com
save the file, and then you should be able to access ScoreTop again.
Best Regards,
The ScoreTop Team
GMATer
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| Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 10:42 pm Post subject: Re: ScoreTop - Creepy E-mail |
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Only a truly crazy person would follow those instructions!
| wizardofwashington wrote: | Did anyone receive this message via e-mail about from ScoreTop:
I got alarmed with the description inside, which had all the signs of a potential "Hack" job.
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fromzhang belinda <belindazhang0310>
tomihir.urs@gmail.com
dateFri, May 16, 2008 at 5:23 AM
subjectscoretop
mailed-bygmail.com
hide details 5:23 AM (6 hours ago) Reply
Dear member,
This is an email from scoretop. I'm so sorry for this discommodiousness. If you want to access scoretop again, try following steps:
Please open the following file on your computer using Notepad:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
then add the following line to the file:
218.201.122.107mihir.urs@gmail.com www.scoretop.com
save the file, and then you should be able to access ScoreTop again.
Best Regards,
The ScoreTop Team
GMATer
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| Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 8:34 am Post subject: |
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whts the exact status/reality with scoretop site
ne clue
still not able to access the site
Pls reply urgently
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| Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 12:14 pm Post subject: Re: ScoreTop - Creepy E-mail |
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| wizardofwashington wrote: | Did anyone receive this message via e-mail about from ScoreTop:
I got alarmed with the description inside, which had all the signs of a potential "Hack" job.
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fromzhang belinda <belindazhang0310>
tomihir.urs@gmail.com
dateFri, May 16, 2008 at 5:23 AM
subjectscoretop
mailed-bygmail.com
hide details 5:23 AM (6 hours ago) Reply
Dear member,
This is an email from scoretop. I'm so sorry for this discommodiousness. If you want to access scoretop again, try following steps:
Please open the following file on your computer using Notepad:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
then add the following line to the file:
218.201.122.107mihir.urs@gmail.com www.scoretop.com
save the file, and then you should be able to access ScoreTop again.
Best Regards,
The ScoreTop Team
GMATer
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The hosts file syntax is
IP-address wesbite
I don't know what the email address in between
It really should not hurt using the IP address and website. You can always edit the entry. That said, It looks like the site has been hacked and not taken down because of lawsuit. I googled for lawsuit against scoretop by GMAC and I am not getting any results. BTW, Ping, nslookup and traceroute all fail with the IP Address listed. So its not a correct one.
If ST is actually violating GMAT rules by publishing same/similar Q's from original GMAT, How good is any one's percentile who has scored 99 percentile and has been with ST and How bad is some one who scored 90/93 percentile without ST.
Jeez! Looks like all the GMAT scores are skewed and no wonder the 99 percentile climbed from 740 to 750 to 760 to 800???
My post is not intended to flame any one. I feel that its not fair to every one. Is it clear that they are NOT using copyrighted material any more? What do they teach in VIP section? |
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 11:00 pm Post subject: |
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So, what should we do about that email from scoretop?
should we follow instructions?? has anyone done it??
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 2:07 am Post subject: my pc crashed, when i did what the scoretop mail said |
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my pc crashed, when i did what the scoretop mail said.
DO NOT TRY IT |
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 8:33 am Post subject: |
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| C mon, You cant have a PC crashed by editing hosts file. |
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You can on Windows  |
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