Spontaneous userid change
 

I've noticed that at some point a few months ago, my prime95 client switched from username 'Nebob' to username 'S423537' with a strange password I don't recognize.

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Mersenne PrimeNet Server 4.0 (Build 4.0.101)
Individual Account Report 09 May 2006 03:54 (May 8 2006 8:54PM Pacific)

All dates and times are Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)

EFF.org Research Discovery Prize is US $100,000 for first 10 million-digit prime

Account ID LL P90* Exponents Fact.P90 Exponents P90 CPU
CPU yrs LL Tested CPU yrs* w/ Factor hrs/day
-------------- ------- --------- -------- --------- -------
Nebob 61.138 16 0.869 2 501.09

Contact name : Nebob
Contact e-mail : snip
Receive e-mail : YES
Last activity : 09 Jan 2006 01:53 UTC
Account created: 20 May 2003 16:12 UTC



------- Machines Assigned to PrimeNet -------

---------------------- -------
TOTAL, uniquely named : 0



------- Exponents Assigned -------

Assignment overdue check-in is set at 60.0 days (0.0 days to expire)

Lucas-Lehmer testing : 0
Factoring only : 0
Double-checking LL : 0
---------------------- -------
TOTAL : 0



------- Exponents Cleared since last Synchronization -------

Factored composite : 0
Lucas-Lehmer composite: 0
Double-checked LL : 0
---------------------- -------
TOTAL : 0



*P90 CPU time according to Woltman/Kurowski formulation. Calibrated by
benchmark P5 90Mhz, 32.98 MFLOP units: 25658999 FLOP/0.778s (256k FFT).

(c)1997-2006 Entropia.com
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Mersenne PrimeNet Server 4.0 (Build 4.0.101)
Individual Account Report 09 May 2006 03:55 (May 8 2006 8:55PM Pacific)

All dates and times are Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)

EFF.org Research Discovery Prize is US $100,000 for first 10 million-digit prime

Account ID LL P90* Exponents Fact.P90 Exponents P90 CPU
CPU yrs LL Tested CPU yrs* w/ Factor hrs/day
-------------- ------- --------- -------- --------- -------
S423537 20.189 3 0.000 0 1881.47

Contact name : Nebob
Contact e-mail : snip
Receive e-mail : YES
Last activity : 08 May 2006 15:31 UTC
Account created: 03 Feb 2006 07:31 UTC



------- Machines Assigned to PrimeNet -------

AMD Athlon : 1
---------------------- -------
TOTAL, uniquely named : 1



------- Exponents Assigned -------

Assignment overdue check-in is set at 60.0 days (0.0 days to expire)

prime fact current days
exponent bits iteration run / to go / exp date updated date assigned computer ID Mhz Ver
-------- -- ---- --------- ----------------- --------------- --------------- ------------ ---- ---
35138359 F 68 5.5 47.5 82.5 03-May-06 16:43 cantor 1800 v19/v20

Lucas-Lehmer testing : 0
Factoring only : 1
Double-checking LL : 0
---------------------- -------
TOTAL : 1



------- Exponents Cleared since last Synchronization -------

prime fact Lucas-Lehmer residue or factor
exponent bits [residues partially masked] date returned computer ID
-------- ---- -- -------------------------------- --------------- ------------
34828379 69 0xEB0B7B4BFB2C3B__ 08-May-06 15:31 cantor

Factored composite : 0
Lucas-Lehmer composite: 1
Double-checked LL : 0
---------------------- -------
TOTAL : 1



*P90 CPU time according to Woltman/Kurowski formulation. Calibrated by
benchmark P5 90Mhz, 32.98 MFLOP units: 25658999 FLOP/0.778s (256k FFT).

(c)1997-2006 Entropia.com
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I can't remember doing this myself, but then I may just be going crazy. Crazy with a capital C and an upside down y.

I only check on the client once every few months, so I only noticed this now, and I don't honestly care so long as the results are still benefiting the project and I'm not just wasting electricity. With the total inexplicability of this development, I felt compelled ask and to make sure!

Hijacked machine
 

Same thing happened to me about 2 months ago on one of my machines. Don't know if this is deliberate or a bug, but hearing it has happened to someone else validates that I wasn't seeing things. Uninstalled the hijacked account and reinstalled with my info, no problems since.

they had the database down and stuff went funky because it looked for your user but you didnt exist so it made one. check and see if someof your other computers have the same account name also check on the results page to see if nenoob still exists.

The user name on my brother's borged box also changed user names spontaneously in January. I discovered this in April when I visited my brother in New York (I live in California). All of my prior results (380+ exponents on 7 different boxes) were changed to the new user name. I asked George to switch them back.

Rich