Barbara, I wasnt aware that my email to the admin at the google groups site and your response were going to the TMG Refugees Rootsweb list, but thats OK. Thanks for reviewing and responding. As reported in my initial/previous email below, I (had) clicked on weblinks on the RootsMagic support documentation page resulting in virus attacks on my local PC as reported by Norton Antivirus. I copied the links to Notepad and they showed as suspicious links and when I clicked on approx. 3 5 weblinks on the page, they did not go to where they were supposed to go and Norton Antivirus reported an immediate virus attack that it blocked. After you sent the message below, I went back to the site and under Recent Site Activity it shows, 7 minutes ago, Tom Dunaway edited RootsMagic and now the links go to the correct locations. So, it appears that the previous weblinks on the TMG Refugees Google Groups site were hacked or virus links. Under these circumstances, how can we advise others to go to the google group site? Considering that someone can and may have altered weblinks on the site, have you considered any action to address that? Thanks, Tom M. From: Barbara Zanzig [mailto:bzanzig@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 8:24 PM To: Tom Momeyer; Refugees Subject: Re: TMG Refugees google group I'm not seeing the same behavior with suspicious links, Tom. What I may have seen is a malformed shortened URL? Yes, we've thought about the implications of write access. It's a mixed bag, letting everyone write on the web page. Either one or a small group has to maintain it--and then you rely on us having time to do it--or we let everyone write on it, or we somehow manage what pages over 100 members have write access to (which makes my head hurt, just thinking about it.) I don't think anyone is adding bad stuff intentionally and overall I'm very happy with how people have managed the site. Mistakes may happen, but we'll take care of them. I verify that people are subscribed to the mailing list before I add them to the website. In addition, I see the log of every change--and you can subscribe to that stream too if you wish to. If anyone DOES find a bad link, please remove it yourself or bring it to mine or Barbara L's attention so we can take care of it. I'm thinking that we'll convert the website to mostly read-only after it settles down a little bit, but until I see evidence of evil intent I'm willing to have the risk of having the website open, for everyone's convenience during this particularly active stage. We are monitoring and have plans in place to close it down quickly if it comes under attack. Barbara On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Tom Momeyer <tom@momeyer.com> wrote: Hi, Appreciate the work going into the TMG Refugees Rootsweb list and the Google Groups site. As I explored the google groups site, I found that clicking on a few of the weblinks leads to an internet virus attack that my Norton Antivirus software stops and reports. Examples for locations include some of the RootsMagic links on this page: https://sites.google.com/site/tmgrefugees/software/support-documentation/roo tsmagic. I copied some of the links noted above to notepad and see that the links do not look like real and they do look suspicious. So, I also noticed that all members are given write privileges, so perhaps this is how the bogus links crept in and must be one or more members with ill intent? Has this been discussed or considered by the google group founder or founders? Is it possible to have a google group allowing all member write access without associated virus risks? Reason Im asking, is that this weekend, Im attending a local TMG & SS user group meeting, where I have facilitated in the past and assisted others with TMG and SS issues, setup, customization, etc. Im sure that TMG demise will come up, and I can offer some info on my explorations into RootsMagic, TMG Refugees, etc, but dont want to provide links to the google group that may have virus links built in. Thanks, Tom Barbara Zanzig TMG-REFUGEES list admin admin email: TMG-REFUGEES-admin@rootsweb.com list address: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Miscellaneous/TMG-RE FUGEES.html list website: https://sites.google.com/site/tmgrefugees