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The last days I encountered an really strange behaviour in my virtual Ubuntu Linux Box. My host System is a windows vista system. The problem was I could ping any host and e.g. FTP was still working. DNS was’nt a problem either. But anything that was going to use a http connection (port 80) was hanging. So no wget, no netcat, no telnet, no apt-get update/install was working anymore. I got crazy with this “bug”.

When you use bridged networking there is no problem at all, but this is not the setup I prefer. What else could I do? I disabled the Windows firewall and Windows Defender service but that didn’t work at all. I reinstalled vmware server, but this didn’t help either.

Finally I found the solution! I’m using Avira Antivir anti virus software. There was a update lately and since then the “web guard” module is causing this problem! If I disable the webguard module, I can use wget and anything else as usual and it’s working nice again.

I hope to safe some people from getting mad for hours with this post.

If you are not a native chinese speaker, it’s hard to figure out how to registrate for popkart (the original KartRider version). This is how we succeeded in the registation process. Check the Screenshots and annotations!

What you need

1. Get A Chinese Name

You can get one here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_name or just google around

2. Get a chinese passport id number

Ask a chinese friend or maybe google may help…

3. Software requirements

You need Internet Explorer with javascript turned on to complete the registration. Furthermore you need support for asian languages installed.

Let’s go!

• Your username has to be all lowercase
• If you get a javascript error just press ok and the form field, which is not “right” will get focus
• If it complains about your gender just change it to the value which works

You can just select any item of the combo list but not the same item twice

• the “answers” have to be at least 6 chars long and can by anything you like

Why register for PopKart?

• More Tracks
• More game modes
• Advanced Features like Item swap

Wanna play with us?

• Add “L3tsBurn” and “Skilla” to your friend list

by DJREDU and WarriorDeluxe