Virus warnings?

[Grandma & Grandpa]

My virus detector is popping up when I’m on gc.com this morning – virus detected in the gc section of Temp Internet Files.

Anybody else getting this?

Jim

[furfool]

No. haven’t seen anything at all. Thanks for the heads uo though. If I see anything I will post here.

[bugsmasher69]

There is a thread at the main gc forums about this. It is apparently a false alarm and nothing to worry about this time. Here is the link to the thread.

[hogrod]

Just curious, what antivirus are you using? no issues here with AVG or Avast.

[Grandma & Grandpa]

Late last night I remotely checked our school geocaching email account we use for our 60 student TB’s. In there was a note from our sysop discussing the same virus issue I was having. Apparently it is a false positive, and is only coming through on pc’s protected by Computer Associates eTrust Anti Virus and one other. Some websites accessed through the school network were generating the same warning about the same virus. I did an immediate download of the latest rather than waiting until the scheduled one at 3:00 am, and the problem was solved.

Thanks for the responses.

Best wishes to all for a happy and prosperous 2008!

Chris & Jim a/k/a Gram & Gramps

[Miata]

Thanks for the advice Jim. In my case my Computer Associates personal firewall was somehow preventing me from logging in! I shut it off and logged in with no problems. Firewall is back on with no problems at the moment. 😀

[3 Hawks]

I had fits with the darn virus warning. It all but shut down my high speed internet. I also had problems downloading pocket queries to GSAK last Thursday and Friday. Yesterday, we dumped the eTrust firewall and antivirus and went with something else and that resolved the whole issue.

[Grandma & Grandpa]

I re-read our in house Geek Squad’s message today. Apparently there is a Yahoo Anti Virus which was also acting up, showing the same false positive.

I’ve been using Computer Associates eTrust Anti Virus for a couple or 3 years at home. It has performed well, this has been the first issue I’ve had. It is also installed on our school network, serving somewhere around 500 pc’s. No complaints there, either. It has captured and quarantined various infected files or emails, and to the best of my knowledge, has not allowed any infections to get past.

No complaints from me about this program, although I did kind of luck out finding the fix quickly. Otherwise, it would have taken until my automatic updates in the middle of the night.

cyan, Jim

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