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East Lancs Railway website virus?

Discussion in 'Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK' started by Martin Perry, Aug 6, 2010.

  1. Martin Perry

    Martin Perry Nat Pres stalwart Staff Member Moderator Friend

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    I am getting a virus alert (McAfee) whenever I try to access the ELR website - anyone else getting the same problem?
     
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    No virus alert on my pc when I access the site, but then I don't use McAfee as I'd had problems with it in the past.

    My current pc came with Avast installed and I have never had any problems with that at all, even find it better than AVG which I used previously.

    I think people on here said they'd had problems with McAfee on a previous thread if I remember correctly.

    Dave B
     
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    Martin Perry Nat Pres stalwart Staff Member Moderator Friend

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    McAfee is the standard system on our works PCs (not that I am looking at the ELR website when I should be working, oh no!) - but I also use it at home and have accessed the ELR website from both locations erecntly with no problems ...
     
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    Martin.

    Might be a McAfee update that's causing it to happen, maybe a PC genius on here (which I'm not) - might be able to throw some light on the subject. Is McAfee telling you what the virus is?

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    I have the very latest corporate version of McAfee that was loaded only a couple of days ago and I can get into their website fine.
     
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    Is the message I am getting.
     
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    Kaspersky is showing no messages when going to the ELR website. McAfee is known for its fair share of false-positives (claiming something is a Virus or spyware when its not).
     
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    Just tried it with AVG, no problems here.
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    We tested this site and didn't find any significant problems.


    At least that is what my McAfee scan just stated.
     
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    Martin Perry Nat Pres stalwart Staff Member Moderator Friend

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    Thanks for the responses, must be an issue here.
     
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    Perhaps it's their way of telling you not to use a work pc to access your leisure interest! :nono::wink:

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    Martin Perry Nat Pres stalwart Staff Member Moderator Friend

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    Nah, am used to that with other 'interests' ;)
     
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    Hi all,

    Sorry you have experienced a problem accessing the ELR web site. I can assure you that there is no virus/Trojan infection on the site. I have had a few reports like this but they all have turned out to be false positives.

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    Chris Morgan
    ELR Webmaster
     
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