What an awful event. I'm so sorry for everyone who's affected. All we want to do
is
something worthwhile, like upload waiting cemetery transcriptions, and, oh yeah, work for
a living.
I have various links to the national and project sites, not just on my index pages, but
also many interior pages (my five county sites are all pretty beefy, with lots of
cemetery transcriptions and other vital records). I don't know how I'd have the
time to
remove all those links and then put them back, so I just hope everything works out OK for
my visitors.
Pat in Gwinnett
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael and Vivian Saffold" <msaffold(a)bellsouth.net>
To: <gagen(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 4:08 PM
Subject: Re: [GAGEN] IMPORTANT - Please Read
Thanks, Jan. I just got back online after a couple of hours away
from
the computer (teach me to stay glued to my chair :-)).
Guess we'd better avoid USGW and USGW Archives for a bit longer.
Better safe than sorry.
Instead of updating your sites, now would be a good time to do backups.
Vivian
At 04:01 PM 10/20/2009, you wrote:
>I'm running AVG and the minute the site comes up, up pops the flash player
>pop-up and I am shut right down.
>
>The Montana State Coordinator just informed the State Coordinators list that
>they are infected there and the same thing with the National site again.
> So - it isn't just me. LOL
>
>I just want people to be aware and be careful.
>
>Jan
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Vicki" <wire(a)shaffer.com>
>
>
> > Strange..........I went there and nothing happened to me. I have Norton
> > and AVG running.
> >
> > Vicki
> >
> >
> > Jan Cortez wrote:
> >> FYI - Sticking my nose in here, but want you to know. I don't know if
> >> Vivian is online or not to let you know.
> >>
> >> Contrary to what came thru from National last night, the National USGW
> >> page is still infected as well as those sites on IX Web Hosting.
> >> Anything that is hosted on
theusgenweb.org. When I go to those
> >> websites - my computer is shutting those pages right down.
> >>
> >> Contrary to the rumors going around, it is my understanding and also that
> >> of RW that any pages there are *not* infected.
> >>
> >> If you come to a USGW site and a download for a flash player comes up,
> >> that is the current virus infecting the pages. Right now I do know that
> >> Montana GenWeb and some of their county sites are affected. I also have
> >> a website in NY and one in GA that are hosted there and they are
> >> infected. At this point we are locked out of the sites and can't even
do
> >> a redirect to another server. <sigh> I've already moved mine in
NY and
> >> the one in GA will be next.
> >>
> >> These pages BTW - hosted on
theusgenweb.org are the free pages that Joy
> >> Fisher offered when we all started moving off from RW.
> >>
> >> When I say National pages, I mean the main National Website. This *does
> >> not* include the Archives or Special Projects which are hosted on another
> >> server and to the best of my knowledge after talking with David Crosby,
> >> they are safe and secure at this point.
> >>
> >> Please stay safe. Update your virus software, run scans and also run a
> >> couple spyware scans. I use Ad-Aware and Malwarebytes. We don't
want
> >> any ruined computers out there.
> >>
> >> Jan
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Jan Cortez
> >> State Coordinator - MIGenWeb
> >>
http://www.migenweb.net
> >> Co-National Coordinator - Tombstone Project
> >>
http://www.usgwtombstones.org/index.html
> >>
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> >> Version: 9.0.686 / Virus Database: 270.14.23/2448 - Release Date:
> >> 10/20/09 05:43:00
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