General Chat

Morning Steve!

I see what you're saying but ultimately it is GR's problem isn't it? They are displaying these adverts on their site. Surely it would be common sense to remove all of the adverts and make this site safe for it's members

Also if you download Mozilla Firefox as your browser instead of IE you can add on the adblocker which blocks any ads on the site.

Ive come on today without the ads flashing on here and no alarm re the trojan site - thank goodness.

Sorry but its not just the GR part of the site its also happening on friend reunited connections and friends reunited

so which ever server is holding these swf files needs cleaning and the swfs replaced with .gif banner ads

Dave on family tree forum has posted a solution:

http://www.familytreeforum.com/general-discussion/38396-has-anyone-been-gr-today-5.html

I can't believe this is still going on and GR haven't sorted it. And why are they relying on a member to relay messages back and forth? It's just not on!

GR....PULL YOUR FINGERS OUT

OK - so it is not just happening on the Boards. I got an email from the site saying I had a message from a member - I clicked on the link to the message and bang, blank screen and something trying to download. Thankfully stopped again by Nortons.

I should have come here to find out all about this. I did click the official looking window box.In my defence i had just got the computer repaired after clicking on the latest hotmail virus. As the computer had been repaired i thought he hadn't finished it so like a fool i clicked. I did manage to get rid of it by running the adwear but now i am suffering from naughty pop ups on the odd occasion.
In saying that i now have a problem with this one piece of 'new device hardwear found' cannot seem to get rid of it.
Tina

I had the same thing happen to me last night too Budgie.

Aileen xxx

i had something appear a couple of times. Once I was told I had 176 infected files and needed to download something. I didn't but I did my own Macaffee scan which said I was fine. Seen nothing since.

I,ve nudged up errols ........thread on the advert stuff ........for you Ron ...but there are MORE threads that got very long .....

Errol has been helpping Gr and ...Gr have been listening to him some what ........

Yes Ron .....Errol came to that when we managed to get the ...pre-pop-up page name .......some where here there is a thread that tells you more about it .......

I have been watching the posts about this Trojan with interest.

I know a bit about computers and websites as I run my own e-commerce business.

I thought it was funny that I hadn't had this problem then low and behold up it popped last night when I was browsing the boards, it was blocked by our security software.

It didn't occur to me at the time but it appears that this is a random event as I had visited the boards many times before it happened to me.

In my opinion this may be, because it only happens now and again, that the problem may be linked to one of the adverts that pop up as this is the only thing that changes on this site.

The adverts may well be hosted on a different server to the GR site as they use an agency to place these adverts and they are probably hosted on the advertising agencies server not on GR's and when that particular adverts turn to appear it pops up and it's infected as the adverts change around this could well be the problem

If it happens to anyone else please make a note of what adverts are on the page at the time and inform GR or Errol as he seems to have a dialogue going with GR about the problem, this will help GR sort out the problem.

Please ensure you have up to date anti virus software installed or you will become infected.

Ron
www.genealogyprinters.com