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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: custard_pot on Wednesday 08 October 08 21:00 BST (UK)
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I just want to warn everyone I have been on the above site and have had 3 virus warnings. I was on it a few days ago and got the same thing but could not be positive it was from that site as I had been on a couple of others but tonight I have only been on there so it is from that site.
Luckily I have a good virus program so please everyone be careful. It is really a pity as I was hoping to get the information I need from there.
Christine
Just an update on this I went on http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers/CountryEngland.htm
last night with no problems but have just tried to go on it and it comes up that access is not available. I spent about 3 hours on the site last night.
I get the worm virus problem if I go on http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/
Christine
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Christine
I've been on the site just now and no virus warning at all. I use it quite a bit and my anti-virus is as up to date as it can be. Since I don't think that the Hugh Wallis site has changed for many moons, it is more likely to be a hiccup in your anti-virus update.
Nell
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I'm with you Nell.
I've been on and off it for the past couple of hours. No problems.
I'm using AVG at the moment.
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What antivirus software is flagging the viruses? I have up-to-date AVG and it has never spotted anything on Hugh Wallis' site.
Theres a tiny bit of Javascript coding on a couple of the pages, probably from the Rootsweb header, so something in that may be triggering it.
(I've used the site for years, and my computer has never had a single virus from it. It may just be an overcautious software alarm)
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I'm with you on that Glen, I just went on there to check and nothing is flagging up on my anti-virus. I'm using avast also spybot which would normally spot a virus a mile off!
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I used AVG for years up to a few weeks ago but was having so many problems with it because it would not let me update that I changed to Avast which found a lot of viruses on my computer that AVG had not found.
Avast updates at least twice a day and also includes spyware.
I have used Hugh Wallis regularly over the years but I am not willing to risk it at the moment.
Christine
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There do seem to be a few reports on other sites of some problems on the site, also it has been mentioned on Rootschat before.
Some javascripting on the page is pointing to a known attack site.
Are you using Internet Explorer or Firefox. It may be worth giving Firefox a go, since it seems to be less prone to attacks
Glen
**Just having a look, and if you go through the URL which ends in ~hughwallis/ then there is some decidedly dodgy looking scripting right at the end of the page source, but if you add IGIBatchNumbers.htm after that, then there isn't! **
**Testing on IE, with all scripting allowed, there is definitley a script trying to run when loading the page**
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Our (up to date) Bullguard picked up on something from there a little while ago and haven't had problems with other sites so it was definitely from there. If I remember correctly, the virus warning didn't come up straight away but a number of times afterwards (at random?) until we emptied cookies etc..
Casalguidi
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See: http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,316936.0.html
As kizmiaz said:
**Just having a look, and if you go through the URL which ends in ~hughwallis/ then there is some decidedly dodgy looking scripting right at the end of the page source, but if you add IGIBatchNumbers.htm after that, then there isn't! **
**Testing on IE, with all scripting allowed, there is definitley a script trying to run when loading the page**
The dodgy javascript points to googleanalitics.net (NOT to be confused with googleanalytics.com which is legit). If you go to the dodgy page it is blank, and viewing the source gives only:
<html><body></body></html>
... which means that the re-directed page is doing nothing whatsoever.
Some years ago there was a nasty crowd trying to emulate legitimate Google services, but there is no danger on the Hugh Wallis site now. The old 'bad' code is still there but it doesn't do anything.
:)
Koromo
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I am not the only one who is being told there are viruses on a couple of other message boards where I have put this warning other people have put that they are getting the same. I was advised to put the files into the virus vault which I have done.
Christine
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**Just having a look, and if you go through the URL which ends in ~hughwallis/ then there is some decidedly dodgy looking scripting right at the end of the page source, but if you add IGIBatchNumbers.htm after that, then there isn't! **
maybe thats why I'm not getting the warning, I use a link from my favourites which is not the home page
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I have McAfee and have no problems whatever with either http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hughwallis/
or http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers/
or
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers.htm
Stan
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i was getting a virus warning a few weeks back whilst on the site, it down at the moment carnt get on
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I assume there actually was a problem which is why it's been taken down. Not for long I hope, as it is so useful. Thanks to Hugh for all his work.
J
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Phew thought it was me as I tried HW just now and found it down.
I always get a warning from Bullguard if they have blocked something, which is what it is there for.
Some sites are worse than others, but at least I know that it is working!
Spring
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Yep. I'm getting a Rootsweb page coming up saying that the site can't be found - may have moved etc.
Do you think they're trying to sort it out or do you think that someone (freepages or Hugh Wallis) has moved it elsewhere? If anyone finds it and it's in safe and complete working order, please let us know.
Thanks. (and thanks to Hugh for it - you don't know what you've got till it's gone!)
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I do hope its only a temperary blip while the pages are being checked :(
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I have found that Hugh Wallis also is the OPC for Stoke Demeral ,Devon.
I sent him a message giving this link to see if he could let us know what is happening..
Fingers Crossed
Spring
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Anyone tried to new search on the IGI? (pilot only at the moment) - bloody awful!
Maybe this is why Hughs site isn't working
Willow x
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Willow
I've found some baptism records on there, the other day and it was quite useful but I don't like the options for place.
Basically I have to do every search firstly on Sussex, England, United Kingdom and then secondly on East Sussex, England, United Kingdom and you get different results. I'd like to know who came up with the list of places ::) ::) ::)
Kerry
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Hiya Kerry
I can't find anything on there at the moment with that search including stuff that I know there should be there
Willow x
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Anyone tried to new search on the IGI? (pilot only at the moment) - bloody awful!
Maybe this is why Hughs site isn't working
Willow x
Hi, what's the link? I'm not sure what your'e referring to. ???
Dave
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Hiya Dave
http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=0
If the old page come up click search - pilot
Willow x
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Thanks Willow.
Don't like it already. Where's Scotland?
Am I being daft? ???
I always start my IGI searches from here.....
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=igi/search_IGI.asp&clear_form=true
Dave
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It appears some people have reported getting virus warnings from the site but, unless it is in the stuff ancestry.com adds, there is no virus there, and certainly not one inserted by me. I suspect ancestry.com have taken it offline. I also suspect that the anti-virus software that is giving these warnings is over zealous and has applied a heuristic detection algorthm to produce the warnings - and those algorithms are well known for producing occasional "false positives". Most reputable anti-virus software like AVG and Norton report the site as clean (or did until it was taken down by ancestry.com)
Unfortunately I have no control over it since ancestry.com do not even provide a means for me to change the password that is necessary to update the site. If some evil hacker has obtained that password somehow I can do nothing about it.
Actually I have not even accessed nor updated the site myself for many months.
Having no time to investigate further I shall be leaving it in the hands of ancestry.com - but they have not had the courtesy even to contact me so I don't know to what extent they intend to address the issue
Thanks
Hugh
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Thank you Hugh.
whether or not the issue is corrected, I would like to thank you for all the effort you have put into it in the past.
It has been of great assistance to many of us.
Dave
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Hiya Hugh
Thanx from me too your excellent work has saved my sanity loads of times
Willow x
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Anyone tried to new search on the IGI? (pilot only at the moment) - bloody awful!
For anyone with ancestors in Durham and Northumberland, like myself, this site has proved to be a treasure trove because it contains scanned images of many of the Diocese of Durham Bishops Transcripts.
However, you cannot search the transcripts by name - you have to trawl through each parish page by page. I imagine the same is the case for some of the other records.
New records are added from time to time.
It is not a replacement in any way for the IGI or the Hugh Wallis index.
Jennifer
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Record Search Pilot Site
Record Search is still under development. This release is considered a PILOT. This means that at times Record Search will not be available while we add additional records and improve some features. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. We look forward to receiving your feedback.
Stan
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Hiya Hugh
Thanx from me too your excellent work has saved my sanity loads of times
Willow x
I want to echo these comments Hugh and thank you for a most useful site. Lets hope that it returns soon.
Kerry
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Hugh I would like to thank you for all the effort you have put into the site it was and hopefully going to be a very usefull site and has helped me a great deal of other people.
I did start this thread and did so as I got the virus threat several times and as it said it was a worm virus I thought it best to warn people. As it turns out it was not only me. I use a reputable anti - virus which is Avast which a lot of people who had problems when AVG upgraded there anti virus, swaped over to. The problem seems to occur when you go into the site one way but not the other (please read update).
I hope the site is up and running very soon.
Christine
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I got the same standard reply too Stan
Willow x
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Thankyou Hugh, for your reply and for the invaluable help we have enjoyed for so long.
Regards Spring
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There seems to be some confusion over the LDS wbsites.
Familysearch this includes the Ancestral File, Census, IGI, Pedigree Resource File, US Social Security Death Index, Vital Records Index and Family History Web Sites is at-
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp
The new Record Search Pilot Site is at-
http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=0
A listing of the contents of this new site may be found at-
http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=4
Cheers
Guy
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Hugh,
I would just like to add my thanks too. Your excellent site has provided such invaluable help to me and many others that I want to take this opportunity to let you know how much I appreciate your hard work.
Elaine
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Oh, good heavens!! What's occurring? >:(
Bring back the Hugh Wallis site - I can't cope without it. This new site is absolutely awful - it doesn't even find stuff that I know is there!! Is this meant to be progress?!!
Do Ancestry have a share in the new site or something?!! :-X
Jill
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This new site is absolutely awful - it doesn't even find stuff that I know is there!!
What do you mean by 'new site' ???
The Family Search Site is there are it always was - or at least it is for me.
The other site (searchlabs) is, as Stan said earlier, a pilot site. Much of the information contained is in the form of scanned images which are not searchable and must be looked through page by page.
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When I go to my saved link/bookmark I end up with the new Familysearch pilot page
Willow x
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If your still getting the old/same Family search webpage go to search on the top of the page and click on search records/record search pilot to see what we are on about
Willow x
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First of all may I say THANK YOU so much to Hugh for doing the site and also coming on this thread so we can send him our thanks personally.
I have just come off phone to Ancestry and they suggested I send an e mail to customersolutions {--a t --} tgn.com
I wanted to personal message this to Hugh but I keep getting PM box limit full - so apologies for doing this way.
Hugh could you please try sending a mail and see if they can help rectify the problem :'( :'(
Thank you
Jo
Moderator Comment: e-mail edited, to avoid spamming and other abuses.
Please replace {-- at --} with @
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Hi Berlin -Bob
So sorry in my rush to get to Hugh while he was online I forgot - apologies. :-[
I think I missed Hugh as well lets hope he logs in again very soon
Jo
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The other day when I was checking for useful family history web-sites to send to a friend who has just started family history research an "Antivirus 2009" box popped up asking us if we would like a free virus check of the PC. Apparently "Antivirus 2009" is a known virus, but AVG didn't seem to pick it up before the box popped up on the screen. They tell you that you have a virus and suggest you download their software to remove it. In fact the software is itself a virus and they then demand money to remove it.
We closed down the PC immediately and ran AVG but luckily no harm had been done. Next day I went to the Hugh Wallis site and the same thing happened. It was only today, when a friend said Hugh's site was down that my husband made the connection between the two, so perhaps that is the problem.
I too add my thanks to Hugh for all his work.
Beth.
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Hi Hugh
I would also like to add a big thank you to Hugh. I have used it for a very long time and found it indespensable.
Linda
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Can anyone help me get in touch with site moderators re sending a PM to them or Hugh Wallis pls
I have had a communication from RootsWeb that I need to pass on
Jo
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Can anyone help me get in touch with site moderators re sending a PM to them or Hugh Wallis pls
I have had a communication from RootsWeb that I need to pass on
Jo
Send a PM to Berlin-Bob - he's 1 of the Global Mods.
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Quote from Daval56.5
Send a PM to Berlin-Bob - he's 1 of the Global Mods.
Oh he is, is he - huh!
::) ;D :P
Unfortunately, until Hugh returns to talk to his fanclub here (jokiing Hugh, I'm a fan too!) and makes a few more posts, we can't contact him by Personal Message.
for Hugh's information, a new Rootschatter can't use the Personal Message system until they have made three posts on the board - this to prevent spamming by PM.
Sorry not to be more helpful - even Bob's magic wand can't sort that one, though!
Kind regards, Arranroots ;)
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Thank you Global Mod Arranroots ;)
Yes thank you for the explanation it makes sense now.
I hope Hugh will come back very soon and read the thread and post some more so I can send him the message.
We are honoured to have him visit :D
Jo
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Quote from Daval56.5Send a PM to Berlin-Bob - he's 1 of the Global Mods.
Oh he is, is he - huh!
::) ;D :P
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- even Bob's magic wand can't sort that one, though!
AR.
Bob was the first one to spring to mind as I've had most recent dealings with him.
No offence (or favouritism) intended. ;D
Was just trying to help.
Dave
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Actually I misread - thought you said Number 1, lol!
;D ;D ;D
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;D ;D ;D
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Hey! AR, what's with the daval56.5? ;D
I just noticed that! - you demoted me just because your nose was a wee bit out of joint?
OK, you can be #1 for the rest of today
Dave ;)
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Hurrah!
This seems to have been an issue for a while:
http://www.british-genealogy.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34165
(August 2008 from another forum)
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Can anyone help me get in touch with site moderators re sending a PM to them or Hugh Wallis pls
You can PM Hugh, he can recieve but not send PMs yet.
Or you can PM me and I'll email it to Hugh (or email your contact details to him)
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for Hugh's information, a new Rootschatter can't use the Personal Message system until they have made three posts on the board - this to prevent spamming by PM.
At the risk of opening up my e-mail to a lot of PMs - here's post number 2
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for Hugh's information, a new Rootschatter can't use the Personal Message system until they have made three posts on the board - this to prevent spamming by PM.
At the risk of opening up my e-mail to a lot of PMs - here's post number 2
And here's post number 3
Please keep the PMs to a minimum folks - if they get too much I may not be able to respond to everyone personally so please forgive me if you end up not getting a response - I'll try to answer everyone as I always do but if it gets out of hand .... well - I think you know what I'm saying
Cheers
Hugh
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Hi all ,
I clicked onto a link for Hugh Wallis`s site from a post of a fellow rootschatter. As soon as I clicked the link up came a message saying that I can update my anti virus software with antivirus 2009. And what did silly me do but click onto it to update. Thought I was doing something I was supposed to to keep my anti virus up to date. ::)
Ever since I done that I had nothing but trouble.[everthing fine now though] I run a scan about ten minutes after updating the anti virus 2009 as I realized by this time that it was nothing to do with my Symantec anti virus. My Symantec anti virus always tells me when I need to update by a little rectangle box saying my anti virus needs updating. I found the Anti Virus 2009 and it was put into Quarantine. I thought that may have fixed it but no. About two weeks later I lost Internet Explorer and couldn't`t receive or send emails. It kept saying This site is experiencing difficulties and cannot find server etc etc. I tried for two days but couldn't`t get onto the Internet. I rang my server and they said everything was O.K from their end. I checked all computer cords,phone line etc but nothing was a miss. I was very frustrated by this stage. I got a computer literate person to come and check it out for me and he said it was a virus. Gord knows how he fixed it but he got it up and running again for me. I have no computer knowledge much at all [ As you can see ;D] but now I am very wary about anything that flicks into the screen.
It may also have nothing to with this Anti virus 2009 .Who knows. ???
I love Hugh Wallis`s site and hope he gets it up and running again. I`m not blaming Hugh at all but thought I would tell others of what happened to me. I now have AVG and have reg cleaner also still have Symantec anti virus. Hopefully between the three of them they can seek and destroy any yucky bugs ;D
Johngirl
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Please keep the PMs to a minimum folks - if they get too much I may not be able to respond to everyone personally so please forgive me if you end up not getting a response - I'll try to answer everyone as I always do but if it gets out of hand .... well - I think you know what I'm saying
Thanks Hugh :)
And an appeal to all RootsChatters - how about we just keep general "how's the site" queries on this topic, rather than everyone sending Hugh a PM. Then when Hugh answers one query, he's answering us all :)
Bob
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I'm beginning to feel left out, I didn't send Hugh a PM ::) ::)
Kerry
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Posting here just to join Hugh's fan club :-* :-*
(incidentally, I too got the Antivirus 2009 thingie on the site a few weeks ago, but only once)
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I'm joining the fan club too 8)
I also got the antivirus 2009 and took ages to get rid of it.
What a disaster though. That really was such a wonderful sight. :'( :'(
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Just to say I have managed to get the PM through to Hugh after he has so generously took the risk of posting 3 times thus opening up his mail box.
Having passed on the message we await the return of your brilliant site Hugh
:-* Thanking you again Jo
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Yes... Thanks Hugh ;D
I just take it for granted that the sight is in my favourites box and I can't believe it's gone. I didn't even realise until I saw this thread this morning. I was on it yesterday with no problems.
Come back soon.
Thanks for all your hard work Hugh. :-*
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Dear Hugh,
Many many thanks from a very long-standing admirer - and correspondent from the way back!
I have no doubt that many many of us will be only too willing to do anything at all that we possibly can do to help you with anything which might fix any problems. You can send PMs to us if you think we might be able to help ;D
All the very very best wishes to you,
JAP
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If anyone sees this message regarding Antivirus 2009 DO NOT
click on it or respond.
Antivirus 2009 is considered a rogue program and uses what are at best dubious methods to get you to buy their software at worst it causes an infection of your system using several trojans in an effort to persuade you that you require this particular product
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Hi Falkyrn,
Now you tell me ;D
Johngirl
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Antivirus 2009 is a scam and should be treated as such: do NOT download or buy it and block it's websites using your HOSTS file.
Is one of the few polite comments regarding this product and its many clones on various technical forums.
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I also posted to the RootsWeb support line and got this message back:
Hi,
"We have contacted Hugh Wallis at the address we have on file for him. If he didn't get this, and if you are in contact with him, please have him email us, and we can get in touch at his correct address.
"Mike
"RootsWeb Support"
No comment from me - I'm just passing it on.
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I also posted to the RootsWeb support line and got this message back:
Hi,
"We have contacted Hugh Wallis at the address we have on file for him. If he didn't get this, and if you are in contact with him, please have him email us, and we can get in touch at his correct address.
"Mike
"RootsWeb Support"
Thanks everyone - I have found the rootsweb support address and sent them a couple of e-mails now - I'm surprised if they had a non working address on file for me but maybe they had my really really old one instead of just my really old one :)
I await their reply but, since it is a weekend - and a holiday weekend in the US to boot - it might be a while before they get back to me
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See: http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,316936.0.html
As kizmiaz said:
**Just having a look, and if you go through the URL which ends in ~hughwallis/ then there is some decidedly dodgy looking scripting right at the end of the page source, but if you add IGIBatchNumbers.htm after that, then there isn't! **
**Testing on IE, with all scripting allowed, there is definitley a script trying to run when loading the page**
The dodgy javascript points to googleanalitics.net (NOT to be confused with googleanalytics.com which is legit). If you go to the dodgy page it is blank, and viewing the source gives only:
<html><body></body></html>
... which means that the re-directed page is doing nothing whatsoever.
Some years ago there was a nasty crowd trying to emulate legitimate Google services, but there is no danger on the Hugh Wallis site now. The old 'bad' code is still there but it doesn't do anything.
:)
Koromo
I found the backup of (part of) my site and it definitely does have a link to googleanalytics.com which is simply there as a hit counter mechanism. It is NOT googleanalytics.net so unless someone hacked in and changed it, or they hacked into google or they hacked into some DNS servers or something it should be perfectly safe - it's been there for years without problem.
Since the web counter thing was only for my interest I would be happy to remove it in case it has something to do with this - but I need to be able to access the site to do that so I wait to hear back from rootsweb now
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I ???ts like the new Ancestory search longwinded and SLOW :'( :'(.
Is this going the same way. ::)
IGI and Ancestory old way was FAST not like these SLOW :-[ :-X.
I,m a firm believer if it works leave it alone ;).
High Wallis IGi Index was invalueable to reasearch the past.
Let us have the old way back :).
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As a researcher who has been tracing family trees for many years, I have found Hugh Wallis IGI batch numbers as pure gold in fact indispensible. After all rather than going on familysearch and putting in a name on their search (many names do not come up when searching this site) I can go on his site, click on for example, country, county and then parish/town/village that I want, and can trace the family and also see at a glance that I need to order the batch numbers that are missing (IGI). If the IGI is missing, and if it often especially the time 1800-1837 then I can order these records on fiche from the various family history societies for the parish records, so I know to order fiche to read on my fiche reader at home. Apart from that I have traced many family trees just looking at the wonderful Hugh Wallis Batch Numbers - my thanks to him.
You go on Hugh Wallis site, you have the choice of which country, then click on county, then on parish, and there you are - all records that you can look at, trace etc.
This site is invaluable to all us serious researchers, and I would like to thank Hugh Wallis for all his hard work for making the website available to us all, and making our searches so much easier.
I hope there will be a riot if Hugh Wallis Batch Numbers are not back on the internet soon. Jean a huge fan of Hugh Wallis over the years x
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Message for Hugh
I use your wonderful website all the time, especially with my students. I teach them to use the gazetteer on GENUKI to locate nearby parishes and then to go to your site to find all the examples of their surname in the locality. It really does demonstrate the difference between patron subs and batch numbers input from the controlled extraction programme.
It works like magic and you should see the WOW! factor on their faces. I really hope you manage to get a positive response from Rootsweb soon.
best wishes :'(
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I really wish I'd known about the antivrus 2009 before. It caused lots of problems with a friends computer.
jpro
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Possibly not the correct forum to post this link.
I've not tried it yet but will do tomorrow at latest (my PC exhibiting signs of the virus - not sure though). Using laptop at moment because PC really screwed up!
Dave
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/malware-removal/uninstall-antivirus-2009
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PS. bleepingcompter is a very recognised site. Almost the equivalent of RC in the computer world.
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I have just tried the Hugh Wallis site - such a good site to nip on to without endlessly trawling through Family Search, though that is a brilliant site too - and am very cross that it is not available at the moment.
Ancestry.com and Rootsweb, excellent though they are, seem to rule the (family history) world at the moment!!
Jill
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We're sorry. The page you tried to access is not available
The page may have moved, or there may be an error in the address. Please check the address or try one of the resources below.
Message on Hugh Wallis today 12th Oct at 2.30pm
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On the Devon Family History message board there is a post with a link asking for people to petition Rootsweb to re-instate the website
http://rootsweb.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/rootsweb.cfg/php/enduser/ask_new.php
In one way I feel guilty that it has been taken off :'( but it was not only me having the problems and I just wanted to warn people to be careful. I only hope people don't hold it against me.
Christine
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I'm moving my contributions to the discussion over to http://www.british-genealogy.com/forums/showpost.php?p=205942&postcount=68 as there has been some useful input there from the moderator of that forum
Thanks
Hugh
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In one way I feel guilty that it has been taken off :'( but it was not only me having the problems and I just wanted to warn people to be careful. I only hope people don't hold it against me.
Christine
No-one really should be able to hold anything against you, Christine. But you never know with some people! ;D
You reported a problem, trying to help others avoid getting an infection on their machines. It sounds to me like people should be annoyed with Rootsweb for not having adequate security measures to stop hackers infecting their websites. That is if the rogue coding wasn't inserted by Rootsweb itself...
Glen
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Hi Everyone.
Does anyone know what has happened to the Hugh Wallis site...it's no longer there
thanks
Louise
Topics merged
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AR or any of the other, more important, Mods.
I wonder whether it is appropriate to lock this thread now?
We all get the point.
Dave
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Dave - we've discussed and decided to leave open for now.
After all, the other site was kind enough to mention Rootschat and we're big enough to take it, lol!
Hugh is welcome to return at any time and I can understand his not wanting to duplicate all his replies.
It's just that we're better!
;D ;D
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It's just that we're better!
;D ;D
Most definitely ;D
Stan
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Thanks AR
It's just that we're better!
;D ;D
PS, note your own words!
:D
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Newbie here!! (be kind ;))
I'm a member of another family history forum and some one there has posted the following link to an archived Hugh Wallis site.
http://web.archive.org/web/20080128180319/http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/
No idea if it's bug free though, not very up on all things technical!
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Hi Shellbell
Welcome to Rootschat! :)
Thanks for the tip. I think personally I will be staying away til Hugh lets us know he's remedied the virus issues - but others might be braver.
Kind regards, Arranroots ;)
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Ta for the welcome Arranroots! :D
Think I'll be staying away too, having had one to many visits from computer bugs in the past! Just though if anyone was desperate to find something and were feeling brave it might prove useful! ;)
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I'm brave.
Seems to work OK for me now. No Rootsweb warning.
Having said that, I was one of the first to respond to the initial post on this thread saying there was no problem (AVG user).
Dave
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Quite right Shellbell - we'll leave it to them to decide and dissociate ourselves and Rootschat from the consequences, just in case!
I hope you stick around to enjoy the site
:D
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Probably will Arranroots, I like a good natter! ;D
I've been researching my family history for about 15 years, and have put some of my surnames in my profile, so if anyone has any interest let me know! I live in North Yorkshire, and that's about the only place I don't have ancestors from, typical.....! ::)
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I've just tried the archive site, & every link gives the same message - Sorry, this page cannot be found.
:(
Betty
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... not wanting to duplicate all his replies...
Indeed - that is my only rationale. Thanks for understanding - I didn't mean to offend anyone :)
Hugh
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Seems most people with AVG haven't had a problem, like Dave and myself.
However, something I thought of as a web programmer myself is that the actual problem most likely is NOT contained in the code for Hugh's site.
Using something called .htaccess someone else with a rootsweb site could potentially write code that would affect other sites on the same server.
Now, I've never used rootsweb hosting so I do not know their T&C's and such regarding the usage of .htaccess. All I'm saying is that it can be done - indeed I use one on my own server that affects several of my domains (intentionally - to prevent hotlinking of certain images).
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This has been a very interesting read.
One thing that I've noticed tho',
We have a lot of new members. ;D
Welcome to you all.
Leonie.
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I'm a member of another family history forum and some one there has posted the following link to an archived Hugh Wallis site.
http://web.archive.org/web/20080128180319/http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/
Hi I'm new too, as I have AVG I took a risk and tried this, but although it allows access to the batch numbers, when you submit a name query it comes back with NOT IN ARCHIVE for all batches.
D
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This has been a very interesting read.
One thing that I've noticed tho',
We have a lot of new members. ;D
Welcome to you all.
Leonie.
I noticed that Leonie and it just goes to show how popular and well used Hugh's site was. Let's hope it returns soon. :)
Kerry
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Just to UPDATE you all I have had an e mail from Rootweb
[quote Jo,
We are working with the owner of the web site to correct a problem with the site and anticipate that the web site will become available as soon as the problem is resolved.
Gerhard
RootsWeb Web Accounts Team quote]
So Hurray we shall be able to search again soon hopefully
Thank you Hugh for working to get this done and if you feel an update of your site coming on Wink well I would be even more thankful
best wishes any way Hugh
Jo
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Just to re-iterate what has been given elsewhere.
You can still use the archive site to obtain the batch numbers and then type them in manually.
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/igi/search_igi.asp?®ion=2&batch_search=true
Pauline
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ITS BACK!!!!!![/b]
Hurrah!!!
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Yes it's back on my computer as well!!
Well done Hugh and everyone else involved and thanks so much.
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Thank you Hugh, and everyone else involved ;D ;D ;D
Gaie xxx
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Thank you to everyone involved in getting it back online :) :)
Betty
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Yay - thank you to all who contributed to the return =)
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Like having an old friend back. Thank you Hugh and all involved.
Maggie
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Great news but could someone please give the link to the site. My original bookmark just goes to an attack site newspage which incidentally I never had originally. ???
Kerry
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Hi Kerry,
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers/CountryEngland.htm
Maggie
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Thanks Maggie
Much relieved ;D ;D ;D
Kerry
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Glad to help ;D
Maggie
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Whoopie! Know what I'm doing when I get in from work tomorrow! ;D
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Just got home - got the notice from rootsweb that they have put it back on line. However I checked the page and it did still have the offending code - I HAVE NOW REMOVED THE BAD CODE AND YOU SHOULD BE OK. Do, however, watch out in case this hacker gets back in again. The page appears to have been changed on July 9th 2008 but, since I do not keep a copy of my password on my computer the intrusion could not have emanated from me.
Thanks for everyone's support
Cheers
Hugh
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Hi Hugh,
Thanks very much Hugh for this factual reference.
There is certainly a lot of technical information there (on British-Genealogy. com sponsored by Parish Chest) which, combined with the information on this RootsChat thread, gives a very full story. There's obviously no point in all the complicated technical details from the other forum being repeated on this RootsChat thread, or for follow-up to be duplicated on both threads. So it makes perfect sense for the technical discussions to be continued on the B-G thread which we RootsChatters can easily access.
It's good to see two different forums cross-referencing each other thus.
And thanks very much, Hugh, for - nevertheless - taking the time to keep RC up-to-the-minute with the excellent news in your last post above.
But what a horrid fright we all had for a while when we thought the wonderful Hugh Wallis site might have gone ... ::)
All the very best,
JAP
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Sorry to answer myself but ...
In case anyone else has been as puzzled as I've been about the now you see it, now you don't nature of posts on this topic ... ::)
The main thread about the (now remedied) disappearance of the wonderful Hugh Wallis site seems to have been here:
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,333934
But then followed (not cross-referenced from this thread):
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,334164
and
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,334224
(the latter is now locked.)
Hope this helps if others are confused. :)
JAP
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I have replied here:
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,334164.msg2139782.html#msg2139782
Perhaps a little more attention to the locked thread with all the "topics merged" comments and "please see here...." might have avoided confusion. ;)
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Dear Nell,
I've just seen your response here.
As I believe I've made clear over on the other thread, the last thing I want is argy-bargy.
If anyone cares about this matter (and I would have said don't bother but now I'm not so sure) all I can say is read my reply over on:
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,334164.msg2139947.html#msg2139947
As they say - life's too short ...
All the best to all,
JAP
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You might like to know that Rootsweb have now changed my password and the clean web page is still in place so I hope that it will not get re-edited by whoever hacked in there in the first place
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Thanks for keeping us informed Hugh.
We can now close this thread.