GL: Charts Again

[john briese]

Nope, its on your site.

Just went directly there and kaspersky warned my of a trogen!

John Briese

> From: mark at semi-local.com
> To: great-loop at lists.samurai.com
> Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 10:00:53 -0500
> Subject: Re: GL: Charts Again
>
> I'm sorry it took me a few day to get back on the Forums. Diana and I
> are picking up an RV we just bought in Florida and are driving it back
> to Minnesota.
>
> So we've been off the grid for a couple of days ...
>
> First of all, thanks to everyone who contacted me off-list (an on)
> about the virus block and subsequent calamities involving our MTW link
> in a previous post.
>
> Secondly, we are VERY sorry to anyone who had any problems whatsoever!
>
> I spent this morning doing some testing:
>
> 1. Our web host and server ranch is clean.
>
> 2. When I navigate DIRECTLY to our two sites (Semi-Local Publications
> or Managing the Waterway), there is no problem, the connection and the
> sites are clean.
>
> - This includes Windows XP with both IE and Firefox
> - This also includes Mac OSX Leopard with Safari and IE and Firefox
>
> That's two operating systems and three browsers. I was unable to test
> Vista, however, as I only have XP and Leopard when I travel.
>
> 3. When I follow the EMBEDDED Forum link in Mac OS/Safari, there is no
> problem.
>
> 4. When I follow the EMBEDDED Forum link in XP and IE, I experience a
> slow connect and then a cleaning (we use ESET NOD32, which is very
> well known at the enterprise level and has daily updates).
>
> So, I'm not exactly sure when or where this virus is coming from. The
> bad guys are always one step ahead of the good guys and you really
> have to be an expert in this particular area to comment. And that
> certainly ain't me! I was a color and image processing software guy,
> not a cyber terrorist. [smile]
>
> But it would seem to be an embedded link and Forum-server generated
> issue ...
>
> Regardless, no matter how and where, Diana and I are truly sorry for
> everyone's pain that got started when people just wanted to go to our
> site and look at our stuff.
>
> In the end, I think I learned something. I don't want to sound
> paranoid but, for now, I guess I'm going to stop using embedded direct
> links and re-type or navigate to sites another way. At least until I
> learn more about this.
>
> I've asked some of the hi-tech gunslingers I used to work with up in
> Boston about this. I'll report back as I find out anything of interest.
>
>
> [clip]
>
> Same happened to me yesterday when accessing managaingthewaters site
> via the
> embedded link contained in the post. Explorer Browser froze and
> forcing a
> power shutdown.
>
> [clip]
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