Genealogy Chat

I clicked on a thread and suddenly I was taken to a site called Malware Alarm.

Anyone else had this happen?

Maureen

Kind of, my anti-virus system has just interrupted a download of suspicious software. (Minutes ago, whilst moving from one page to another on this site)

Any idea how I would get a problem when I only visit reputable sites?

Maureen

yes it just happened to me as I was trying to get in

That has just happened to me too.Hubby is looking on other computer,

Caz xx

Yep its just happened to me. I'm running a scan know.

Maureen, try this.
Get SpyBot Search & Destroy free, download, install it, then immunize the computer before you run a full bot check. Keep it updated and use it weekly to protect the computer.
http://www.safer-networking.org/

Also try this Ad-Aware free.
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/products/ad_aware_free.php

Thats worrying. mabe you should put this thread on all the boards as there others who have come across the same thing as you whilst logging on.

Snap ! Me too. As I went into "Community" from the home page, NAV intercepted it and Internet Explorer crashed.

NAV history - Auto-Protect has detected Downloader

Downloader is a generic threat. The actual file is gnida(1).swf which arrived with the other flash objects from Genes Reunited. Appears to be linked with the banner advertising stuff and has hit other sites.

Just shows why you should have an active ant-virus program. AVG and NAV recommended.

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Dave.

Tilly;

You didn't say where you saw the name 'performance optimiser'.

There are many legitimate prgrams called 'Performance Optimiser' - with an S or a Z, and a few threats. So it's difficult to say.

Run a scan on the folder containing it for a quick check.

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Dave

It's happened to me as well when I logged on earlier via Firefox on my Mac and then tried to access my messages. I was told there were 167 major system faults on my system that needed rectifying immediately.
Quit Firefox, re started the machine and ran Maintenance, which told me all was well. Have also run a full virus scan, which found nothing.
Am using Safari for now, no problems there as yet.

My security detects more spyware cookies on this website than any other !

Just happened to me again as I logged on at home just now - fine until I tried to move away from the community success board. IE at work with Norton anti-virus stopped it; Netscape with McAfee at home took me into the Malware Alarm page just like Glitter Baby at the top of this thread. Really scary the way it demonstrates massive downloads - made my heart skip faster, despite knowing about it - thanks very much for all the tips everyone.

M.David;
It looks like it has got into your system. I expect you will see many alarming pop-ups about faults, risks, problems, etc.

**Do not click on any of them** Close them with the X at the very top right.

I've not tried it as I don't have an infected system, but this comes highly recommended:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/RogueRemover_d5360.html

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Dave

Just logged back on and I am surprised at how many members have had problems.

Have sent a message to GR and wonder what their response will be.

Maureen

I just got it when I switched from the Records board to the messages area.

Rose

Has some one reported this to genes? It's not happened to me (IE and Mcafee here) perhaps I've just been lucky. But they really need to be made aware of it.

I was just reading a thread when exactly the same happened to me as well. It's strange that so many of us had it happen on this site. Val

Glitter Baby;
said "Have sent a message to GR and wonder what their response will be."

I can predict that the response after a couple of days will be -

We are sorry you are having problems.

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Dave