[skyguy79]

During my session with HP the other day, the possibilities of viruses was discussed. We both thought that a virus might be the source of my blue screen problems. I told him that I've had a few higher risk intrusions blocked by Norton and he told me that that's not unusual. Everybody gets several attacks on a regular basis. (the tech rep was from the mid-west and not a sourced out location)

I had 13 attempted intrusion on just one day that I checked out. Fortunately most are low level and pretty much benign. This fact alone tells me the importance of having a good virus protection and firewall on your computer and frequent updates.

I cannot attribute a single intrusion attempt to be associated with this web site and I'd even bet that if I didn't log in to TOTV for a day or two, I'd still have similar results with the attempted intrusions.

BTW, I have had one and only one issue with using the site. When I preview a posting I get a text only preview and have to click the preview button again to have a normal view. However, I have no idea if it's the site or on my side. I believe it is on my side because it seems to happen on IE only and not Firefox or Chrome.

[TOTV Team]

Originally Posted by kathy and al

VillagesFlorida-yes, all 11 were blocked by Norton and if I did not have that antivirus/malware protection with them, my computer would be toast right now!!!
And like you, I have had Norton for over 10 years now and have never once had a
a "high risk" security intrusion attempt on my computers. To have 11 in a twelve day period while exclusively on TOTV surely makes me a believer that this site has a real problem.

If you are exclusively on this site, then it isn't fair to say the problem is with this site. With over 100,000 visits per month and over a 1,000 unique visitors a day there obviously would be a significantly higher number of reported issues other than the small % here. There have not been any viruses/malware originating from the site found and we continue to scan daily.

Feel free to email us any information you notice and we will continue to monitor.

[memason]

Originally Posted by kathy and al

VillagesFlorida-yes, all 11 were blocked by Norton and if I did not have that antivirus/malware protection with them, my computer would be toast right now!!!
And like you, I have had Norton for over 10 years now and have never once had a
a "high risk" security intrusion attempt on my computers. To have 11 in a twelve day period while exclusively on TOTV surely makes me a believer that this site has a real problem.

If I had as many attacks as you state from a single website, I don't think I would be on that website any longer... Why do keep coming back to get infected ???


Just saying....

[Xavier]

Originally Posted by Barefoot

I usually use my iPad for surfing TOTV, so I've never had a problem. However I just downloaded Microsoft Security Essentials to protect my Acer Laptop. Thank you to Xavier for helping me!

I've been happy to help.

X

[Barefoot]

Originally Posted by Xavier

...and I still have zero, zip, zilch, nada. I'm waiting for an explanation for that difference. Go figure! Xavier

I just ran Security Essentials (thank you Xavier) which did a complete scan of my laptop with no infections. And I didn't have any security on my computer previously, none at all. And I'm on TOTV a lot. That makes me question if the infections are really coming from TOTV.

[HelenLCSW]

Originally Posted by Admin

There are very isolated reports of this issue. We are monitoring all feedback and continue to run daily scans to ensure nothing is originating on TOTV.

If you have an issue that you notice and would like us to look at specifically, please email us the page you were on when this occurred as well as the Google ads displayed in the lower left tower, bottom of page, or in a thread that appear at the time. Do not post but email to us.

Site security is our top priority and we will continue to do everything we can to assist.

This is very reassuring --thanks. No problem here so far but I have all Apple products-iMac, iPhone, iPad, and MacBook and have accessed TOTV from all of them.

[kathy and al]

Originally Posted by memason

If I had as many attacks as you state from a single website, I don't think I would be on that website any longer... Why do keep coming back to get infected ???


Just saying....

I have taken a "Snapshot" of each of the 11 high risk intrusions and can document time, date, attacking computer site, and more for each and every one of them. All have been while on TOTV only. I visit hundreds of websites every day without problem. And I keep coming back to the TOTV site because I enjoy reading everyone's insights into many different subjects. As far as being infected by the intrusions, Norton Antivirus has blocked every intrusion attempt, thus no infection and no harm done. Norton is sophisticated enough to immediately report to me the "attempt" with substantial documentation to support their action.

[TOTV Team]

We at Talk of the Villages take reports such as this very seriously. Thank you for bringing it to our attention and keeping us updated.

Currently there are the about .01% of all users that are seeing such an issue, we have tried to reproduce it but are not seeing what you are. To be safe we have ran a scan daily on the server looking for any malware or potential injections of nefarious code as well as employ a security specialist. Our scans and efforts did not reveal anything that would point to this issue as originating from TOTV. In addition, we have checked Google’s Webmaster Tools where they scan our site daily for Malware, there is no indication that Google has found anything either.

We recommend that you scan your PC with software known as Malware Bytes or other anti virus/malware that you are comfortable with. Clear all cookies and cache after your scan. Once an anti virus is ran feel free to send us the log file. Also feel free to email us the page that you were on when this occurred as well as any of the google ads (lower left tower, bottom of page, between post) that may have been displaying when you receive the warning and we can try to assist you individually.

We will reopen this thread if there is any change in the status of our scans or security findings and again we will assist you individually as much as possible to help you with your issues. Our email is talkofthevillages@gmail.com.