Re: OT Explorer/GenesReunited problem


"brian fisher" <brian.fisher@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Kay Robinson" <Kay_Robinson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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A couple of weeks ago IE hung while accessing the GR site, happened
when page had loaded all but one advert. IE shut down both times.
Since then, and only when accessing GR, IE has slowed down and a
standard M$ info bar has popped up stating that IE was running slow
and needed an upgrade to fix, usual do now or cancel button. The first
time I selected do now and was taken to another site which
automatically scanned my drive for faults, very quickly finding a
couple of hundred or more and suggested these were fixed. Then I was
informed that the cost of fixing would be $39.99. I cancelled and
quit.

Since then this has happened several times, only when accessing GR,
and choosing the cancel option does nothing but take me into the scan
disk operation at which point I have to shut down IE to stop it. Has
anyone else experienced this? It's odd that I can browse for days
without problems and only when accessing GR it happens. If I access GR
the same day again it doesn't happen but the following day it does.

I've scanned explorer for viruses but it shows as clean and the last
alteration date was last June, no doubt the normal windows upgrade
thing.

Anyone got any ideas?

Kay

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I had this too, on two separate occasions after visiting genesreunited.

The popup told me that I had problems with my system and urged me to
install Process Optimizer. Clicking "cancel" didn't get rid of it, instead
giving the impression that it was about to go ahead with an install.
Eventually I shut my system down to ensure it didn't install anything. I
ran extensive spyware and virus checks on my PC and did not detect any
problem.

Looking at my browser's history, (I use IE7 BTW), it showed that
immediately after viewing a genesreunited page there was a visit to
quinquecahue.com, then
immediately after, a visit to processoptimizer.com.
I had not knowingly visited either of these sites.
This history pattern was the same on both the occasions that I had visited
genes.

I contacted genesreunited support and was given this reply:

"Thank you for your email. Please accept my apologies if this virus alert
has caused you any worry.
There was an advert on the site which was inviting people to download an
application.
At that point your anti-virus software picked this up and warned you of
the various types of viruses that could be contained.
This advert has now been removed from the site. "

I'm not convinced that was a virus alert, but it did at least confirm
there had been some kind of problem at genesreunited.

Luckily I did not install any program. If you have installed Process
Optimizer there is an article about it on the Symantec website here:

http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2007-101013-0757-99&tabid=2

Brian



Sorry that should have been "Performance Optimizer" and NOT Process
Optimizer.
(Senior moment!)
Brian


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