Jan,
It was a cemetery on the USGW Tombstone Transcription Project. I think, but am not sure
that he Archives, TPP are ALL on the same server, but I am not positive.
Laverne
----- Original Message -----
From: Jan Cortez
To: njgen(a)rootsweb.com
Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2009 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: [NJGEN] USGW sites NOT SAFE YET
Hi Laverne,
You mention a cemetery file. Was it on a county site on RW, or was it
something that you were trying to access thru the Archives or Tombstone
Project?
Unfortunately I had two websites that are hosted on IX Web Hosting and both
were infected - Broome Co., NY and Banks Co., GA. I had gone to completely
download Broome Co and move it on to my own domain server and discovered
that all pages had been updated as of that same date and since I hadn't done
it, I looked at the html on the pages and found the problem. Obviously we
are locked out of those sites now. I am also afraid to upload anything to
my domain now because they could be infected. <sigh> I advised Sherri
Bradley, Tina Vickery and Joy Fisher of the problem shortly after noon that
day, however no announcement was forthcoming until after 7 p.m. that
evening, which makes me wonder how long those pages were available to the
public before they advised IX Web Hosting to clean up the mess. <sigh>
I ran a full virus scan on my computer and two malware scans and it appears
to be clean. It appears that what the one on my sites was doing was sending
a pop-up to download Adobe Flash Player and from there you got the virus.
I didn't think that the USGW Archives or TP were housed on that same hosting
service though.
Jan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Laverne Tornow" <laverne11(a)wildblue.net>
To: "NJGEN" <njgen(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2009 1:26 PM
Subject: [NJGEN] USGW sites NOT SAFE YET
It isn't all clear yet.... DO NOT OPEN ANY file on USGW or
projects with a
.txt extension. I visited the tombstone project yesterday to get updated
links for cemeteries for my county in GA and my county in NJ. Thank God I
use Firefox with the NO SCRIPT add-on and WOT (web of trust) add-on. It
prevented a trojan from being downloaded to my computer from a cemetery
file and told me the site was unsafe to leave it immediately. I had been
making it a point NOT to visit any USGW site. in recent weeks and I am now
going to continue that policy, so I am appologizing in advance for ANY
broken or dead links to any USGW component on my sites. When they can
guarantee they are SAFE, then I will fix them! I surely do not want to
link up any cemetery or other files that visitors to my counties might
click on and subsequently have their computer infected nor do i want to
have to restore my computer yet again because I visited a USGW site.
I am beginning to think the restore file on the server USGW is on is
infected.
Laverne Tornow
Cape May County
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