Virus on GenesReunited

[kerryb]

Lets hope they have dealt with it, think how many people must use that site who could be infected 

[Hello There]

This has been happening since Thursday  , i have been interupted no less than 6 times, i have emailed them along with lots more posters.........

I am not going back until i know it is safe !!!!

Jacky 

By the way, i asked GR in my email to inform me when this has been addressed - bet they dont 

[crystalight]

  I tried to log on earlier this morning from my email about hot (not) matches, same thing. I was hit with all sorts of warnings about my system running slowly, windows malware, worms and that the scanner had picked up an amount of viruses on my computer etc. before I actually was connected. 

I thought it was some kind of marketing ploy because it did not seem to follow the same format as my usual Symantec virus protection.  more like a pop up.

I shut down all the warnings that kept reappearing hopefully I haven't let anything in  Since then I have run a full system scan with my anti virus and ad aware, nothing showed up.

When I checked the history Symantec had successfully deleted Downloader located in my local files    so something went on 
Ohh I do hope it wasn't in a family tree file 

Having not read this until now, I did revisit and all seemed ok

Crystal 

[Mum44]

Crystal - the name of the file my Norton dealt with was called Download.

Obviously something, but hopefully caught and despatched.  I've also run a scan which was clear.

It seems to have been on initial log-in and very obvious, since it was picked up immediately by Norton.  I wasn't told to log out of genes, or end anything - which it sometimes suggests.

[crystalight]

Thanks Mum,

Yes, lets hope its nothing to worry about and caught and removed in time.

In some strange way it seems a little less worrying now I know its happened to others (not that I would want anyone to suffer it) it points to Genes Reunited rather than something I encountered on my relentless search for ancestors on all sorts of odd sites 

I did google Downloader and it is thought of as a low risk virus 

Crystal 

[meles]

I've was about to reply to someone who says we have hot matches, and as soon as I got into GenesReunited, I got the same pop up as last time. It was a virus alert from MalWareAlert (which I don't have).

So I clicked on delete, to ignore the box, but I was taken to their site anyway. It told me it had found all sorts of dreadful things on my computer.

I closed it, checked my computer with my AVG and Zone Alarm, and all is fine.

It's deceitful and infuriating.

meles

[Peonie]

Hi all,

my computer picked up a virus from GenesReunited - Download - on 16th january. It was the first time I had been to that site and will not go there again. I don't know very much about computers, so better keep it safe.

mz

[kooky]

I agree with Meles.
Same happened to me!
Kooky

[crystalight]

Hi Meles,

I am pretty sure that's what I experienced and what made me doubt that it was my Anti-Virus because I don't have MalWareAlert either.

I was also redirected straight to their site, perhaps someone has sabotaged their hot match alert 

Does anyone know if it is still happening?

Crystal