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Magilla Gorilla
04-19-2009, 11:45 AM
I opened a thread regarding Transgenic banana-banana biotechnology :wwwbiobananain
I selected to go to the website link and my wifes laptop started to show error screens and then restarted several times. DO NOT GO TO THAT WEBSITE!!
The computer does not power up now. It is a new computer. I am on another computer posting this. I hope this helps other people. Scot (Chironex) was the last person to post from that thread. He is now offline. I left him a PM.
Taylor
04-19-2009, 11:47 AM
I didn't click on it, thankfully!
Chironex
04-19-2009, 11:52 AM
I just called Andrew to find out where this occurred on the site. He said that it was in the photo gallery. I just went there and clicked all of the photos but found no ill effects. Apparently, it was something else.
I will continue to explore the rest of the site and will report anything unusual.
Chironex
04-19-2009, 11:58 AM
I just clicked on every menu item and drilled down several levels of links without finding a problem. My Norton Anti-Virus program would send an alert if there was any issue, but nothing came up. Everything is working normally. I wonder what could have caused Andrew's computer to shut down?
The site does not seem to be the issue causing the problem, so it is a mystery to me.
As I told Andrew, it is good that he reported it. Better safe than sorry.
Michael_Andrew
04-19-2009, 12:06 PM
I'm pretty sure I clicked on that link. Wasn't it a site about banana research being conducted by researcher in India? If it is that one I didn't have any problems. But I only went to the main page. I didn't click on any links there.
momoese
04-19-2009, 12:07 PM
I'm on a MAC but I didn't try going to the site. Thanks for heads up!
Magilla Gorilla
04-19-2009, 12:36 PM
I am glad no one else had the problem. The computer would not power up.
1. I had to start the compter in safe mode.
2. Then I did s system restore to yesterday.
3. Next I went to Microsoft to see if my wife did not load the most recent updates. There were two high priority updates that did not load last week when they did on my other computers (7 in my ofice). I am loading the updates as I type on another computer.
I hope this fixes it!
island cassie
04-19-2009, 03:21 PM
Thanks for the update!
Magilla Gorilla
04-19-2009, 03:38 PM
Thanks for the update!
You are very welcome! The computer is up but still loading a critical update. I am happy to hear I am the only one with a problem.
Bananaman88
04-20-2009, 06:15 AM
I clicked on the link and my computer stopped working correctly as well. I finally managed to get it to shut down and it seems OK now. I have seen the guy who "owns" that website on here before (in fact I've had it bookmarked for several months). I remember a year or so ago he kept posting over and over to get us to check out his website.
Magilla Gorilla
04-20-2009, 09:22 AM
I clicked on the link and my computer stopped working correctly as well. I finally managed to get it to shut down and it seems OK now. I have seen the guy who "owns" that website on here before (in fact I've had it bookmarked for several months). I remember a year or so ago he kept posting over and over to get us to check out his website.
I would stay away from that site. I understand several people had no problem. I spent hours restoring and updating my computer (a pain in the ass). My tech guru does not think the problem came from my girls going to Nickelodeon. Dora the Explorer is your friend :ha:.
Bananaman88
04-20-2009, 11:42 AM
It's that darn Scot guy......can't trust him!
Magilla Gorilla
04-20-2009, 02:47 PM
It's that darn Scot guy......can't trust him!
:ha::ha::ha::ha::ha::ha:
Michael_Andrew
04-28-2009, 12:45 PM
May wanna check this out first:
http://www.bananas.org/f5/i-would-recommend-antispyware-solution-search-7749.html
enigma99a
04-28-2009, 04:48 PM
I'm on a Mac too, so no worries for me either:)
harveyc
04-28-2009, 05:39 PM
I'm on a Mac too, so no worries for me either:)
Unless you boot up in Windows to run software you can't buy for your Mac! ;)
momoese
04-28-2009, 06:35 PM
Unless you boot up in Windows to run software you can't buy for your Mac! ;)
I have both Mac and PC! Best of both worlds.
harveyc
04-28-2009, 06:42 PM
I have both Mac and PC! Best of both worlds.
I've seen and used them! ;)
I think I used one to check e-mail and the other to print my trip itinerary which I had forgot at home. Thanks! :)
harveyc
04-28-2009, 11:22 PM
Sherry, do you know anything about bananas or are you just here to market a software package which some users have openely spoken against?
Note: Sherry, who was promoting some unscrupulous scanning software, has had here posts deleted so some of the above comments seem out of place. Just thought I'd explain what happened.
Clare_CA
11-23-2009, 03:37 PM
Yesterday, I went to our banana.org web site. I think I just clicked on the main discussion menu, and immediately, pop up boxes came up and said that they were scanning my computer and my files and a virus was detected. At the same time, my Norton Utitilites told me that a virus was just blocked. The pop up boxes wanted me to click on the "Fix Now" boxes, but I didn't. I just closed them. I believe the pop-up saying that I had a virus was the actual virus or the prompt to get me to download the virus. It looked very real like it was from Microsoft's virus blocker. I'm not too worried about it because my Norton caught it, but I thought everyone should know.
momoese
11-23-2009, 03:40 PM
Yesterday, I went to our banana.org web site. I think I just clicked on the main discussion menu, and immediately, pop up boxes came up and said that they were scanning my computer and my files and a virus was detected. At the same time, my Norton Utitilites told me that a virus was just blocked. The pop up boxes wanted me to click on the "Fix Now" boxes, but I didn't. I just closed them. I believe the pop-up saying that I had a virus was the actual virus or the prompt to get me to download the virus. It looked very real like it was from Microsoft's virus blocker. I'm not too worried about it because my Norton caught it, but I thought everyone should know.
You are correct, they are bogus. Do not click on them, not even to turn them off. Sometimes the only way I can get rid of them is to shut down the machine and restart.
harveyc
11-23-2009, 03:56 PM
I have a blocker in Firefox but when I got those pop-ups I've used Task Manager to shut them down. You can start Task Manager by using Ctrl+Alt+Delete keys.
momoese
11-23-2009, 04:17 PM
Thanks Harvey, I hate shutting down the computer just to get rid of them.
Richard
11-23-2009, 04:20 PM
I came across that also. It was generated by a Google Ad that launched the bogus virus alert if your mouse passed over it. I reported the ad to Google. I have not seen it again -- I would guess it was coming up on other sites too and Google quickly deleted it.
Clare_CA
11-23-2009, 04:24 PM
Thanks Mitchel, Harvey, and Richard. I'll use Task Manager in the future if I ever run across that again. That was kind of scary. I'm very glad to know that it was a Google Ad, Richard, and not this web site. I almost didn't want to return to bananas.org for fear of it happening again, but I do love my bananas!
mjdsinsacto
11-23-2009, 04:41 PM
You are correct, they are bogus. Do not click on them, not even to turn them off. Sometimes the only way I can get rid of them is to shut down the machine and restart.
same here!
i closed them, and had to turn off my computer ... twice. gone now.
momoese
11-23-2009, 06:54 PM
Thanks Mitchel, Harvey, and Richard. I'll use Task Manager in the future if I ever run across that again. That was kind of scary. I'm very glad to know that it was a Google Ad, Richard, and not this web site. I almost didn't want to return to bananas.org for fear of it happening again, but I do love my bananas!
You'll find these things all over the internet, not just here. I saw a show that said some of them will place spyware on your machine when you click the close button which is why I never click them.
BananaLee
01-06-2010, 05:08 PM
That happened to me once, something came up saying I had 4 Trojans and a ton of other viruses. It said to get rid of them by downloading something, but I new if I clicked that it would send all of those viruses into my PC. My dad clicked out of it and said it was trying to put a virus in the computer but he new it was false 'cause it was software we did not have. Stupid Trojans.
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