"Since Mar 22, 2011"
A little "too" eager, maybe?
Use your judgement.
Posted on 05/21/2011 3:47:27 PM PDT by matt1
I visited Orly Taitz' website yesterday to catch up on any news re the various court proceedings she is involved in and immediately a pop-up appeared asking if I wanted to run a script. I closed the browser without responding. Thereafter, everything on my desktop disappeared, the Task Manager was disabled and many important applications were wiped out. This was on my work computer and I had to get an IT guy to look at the PC. It took nearly 4 hours to restore everything. The IT guy said that if it was a personal computer, the machine would have been almost destroyed.
The most probable culprit is democrat operatives who DO NOT want the public learning about Ms. Taitz and the serious fraud allegations she is making about obama.
I just wanted to post this so that others from FR will be careful when visiting her website. Hopefully, Ms. Taitz will do the necessary to protect her site and its visitors but for now I won't be able to visit her site until a remedy is in place.
She has a history of not listening to people who tell her about problems with her site. So, I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if you got whacked there. No way would I click and go there.
Visited Orly’s esteemed site..a few moments ago..no aswangs encountered.
Never attribute to unknown malefactors what can easily be explained by incompetence.
Orly Taitz IS a virus.
Nothing new. Taitz’s site has been infested with Chinese malware for the past two years.
A little "too" eager, maybe?
Use your judgement.
understood. which is why i didn’t say to NOT go to orly’s site. i merely said be careful.
I did.... but I am running Linux. :)
If your machine was not a “personal computer” then what was it?
Also did it have antivirus/antimalware running, and what kind?
Also, what browser was being used?
There shouldn’t be any reason for a browser application to break outside the browser and nuke a bunch of files.
For serious caution heads, there’s always Linux, or things like the “safe run” sandbox that you get with Kaspersky (you can start your browser in it, and it provides a second level of virtual environment protection in case something like javascript manages to pry its way outside the browser).
Sounds more like something was lurking in the background either waiting for you to go to the Orly website or else just the unlucky timing. Most serious corporate IT is good enough to keep browser applications from bursting out of the browser.
Me smell noob poop.
That happened to me too when I visited the site months ago. A window popped up and asked if I wanted to run a scan as my computer was infected. I clicked on the ‘x’ to close the window without answering and that was the magic password to get lots of nasty things downloaded to my computer.
I took it in to get it fixed and was told that when one of those windows pops up, just shut down the computer without closing anything because a ‘yes’, ‘cancel’, ‘no’ or just trying to close those windows can be programmed to download viruses and such on your computer.
i mean it was not a personal PC, it was a corporate PC.
as stated before the company’s network is well-protected. not sure of all the details but i know they have something called a Cisco agent. right before the desktop shortcuts disappeared, the Cisco agent popped up a message indicating the an external application was attempting to execute or some message like that and that it was prevented from doing so.
the system is windows xp and ie7.
the IT guy, despite what some of you say, is top-notch. he even was in contact with the IT supervisor. the supv said that if the virus could not be located, that they would have to clean the machine. the IT guy said that’s a drastic measure since all of my files saved on the c:\ drive would be deleted as well as non-standard applications which i use all the time.
personally, i just bought an expensive lenovo laptop which has taken me two friggin’ weeks to configure and much difficulty transferring apps and files from my old laptop. i would have been MAJORLY PISSED if my files and apps had been deleted because of a virus from orly taitz’ website. i never heard of an orly taitz website virus until after the PC was restored and i googled it to see if others had similar comments.
instead of being suspicious of someone posting a warning to that fact, i would have been grateful for the tip and would use prudence when thinking about visiting ANY website known to have a virus.
BS
I hope it gets properly investigated. I wonder why data files you had created couldn’t be copied off of C: by mounting that disk as a second drive, perhaps even on Linux. That would lessen the pain of that kind of reformat.
Many IT experts suggest you make Firefox your default browser on Windows and leave IE7 for things that absolutely must have it, such as Windoze Update/Microshaft Update. Whether or not the Orly website is carrying a virus, that is something worth considering going into the future.
It’s possible you were the victim of a one-two punch, in which a virus sets itself up quietly in your native OS environment then waits for you to do something else specific. Once you do what it’s waiting for, all hell breaks loose. Website content can be programmed to catch an attempt to close a browser window and do something else browsery, like pop up panels or even fill your screen with browser windows, but in principle your browser should act like a sandbox with respect to disk content. The operating system, not the browser content, is designed to be in charge of the interface between disk content and the browser (like save file or upload file).
I’m also in IT. I can’t remember the last time I couldn’t defeat a rootkit, and we have some unusual operating environment challenges on top of it all. Home systems are much easier, not that that’s saying a lot.
I have been going to Orly’s sites since the beginning and NEVER had a problem. She has had problems, it never affected me. I think it is just to scare people away. In your case it’s working.
matt1
Since Mar 22, 2011
“Since Mar 22, 2011”
and your point being, mister?
are you implying that because i’m a new member, that i’m not supposed to have an opinion or don’t have the right to post???? that FR is only for the “old timers”????
i sincerely hope that’s not the case and that i’m misinterpreting your post.
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