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Family History Monthly CD Virus

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Gwyn in Kent

Gwyn in Kent Report 22 Feb 2005 15:12

Thanks for the warning. We have the magazine but luckily have not tried the CD yet.

Peter

Peter Report 21 Feb 2005 15:38

You can safely copy the CD to your hard drive, as the virus will only activate if you run the files. You can then run the anti-virus on them, but you might have to uncheck Read Only in properties first. Peter

Sue In Yorkshire.

Sue In Yorkshire. Report 21 Feb 2005 12:38

I have also got this disk,just reading the small print on the black bit at the back of cover. It says they strongly recommend that you run a virus checker before using the disk. So dont think I will be using mine. Sue

BrianW

BrianW Report 21 Feb 2005 12:13

According to McAfee it was only the 17 files of Generation X 2.4.1 that were infected, everything else passed 'clean'.

Researching:
Sherwood (Kent); Jesson (London); Worboys (Herts)

Peter

Peter Report 21 Feb 2005 12:10

Best way To be honest I have only looked at the cesus stuff so far and have not done a virus check since geting it so guess what i'v been doing for the last 10 mins.

BrianW

BrianW Report 21 Feb 2005 11:46

I've just e-mailed them, covering myself by saying 'according to my Mcafee antivirus', so I'm not actually accusing them of sending out infected disks. Just as well I ran the virus check before opening anything!

Researching:
Sherwood (Kent); Jesson (London); Worboys (Herts)

Peter

Peter Report 21 Feb 2005 11:34

Thanks for the tip as I have that disc. Have you told Family tree I exsect they do not know about it

BrianW

BrianW Report 21 Feb 2005 11:29

I have just run a McAfee virus scan on the cover CD Genealogy Gateway 5 and came up with a warning that the Generation X 2.4.1 files contain the Univ.Script/99a trojan virus (also known as BAT.Darkomen). As it is a read-only disk it cannot be removed. So if you run this disk either avoid the Generation X feature or else burn the rest of the CD onto a fresh CD or hard disk, excluding the Generation X directory. A computer techie might be able to tidy that up or suggest alternatives.

Researching:
Sherwood (Kent); Jesson (London); Worboys (Herts)