What's With Gemarts Website?

[JewelFreak]

When I try to go on this website I get a warning that it's an Attack Site & might harm my computer, access not allowed. Google says they found malicious software passed on by the site last on 10/29. Explained it could be someone who altered the site's code to distribute malware. Anyone else encountered the same?

--- Laurie

 

[ooo~Shiney!]

Wow, I just tried them with the same result!
I was looking for some small spinel.....
Weird!

 

[iLander]

I noticed that too and emailed Jerry yesterday, and he said that his web guy is working on it and it should be fixed any second.

This is the second time I have seen one of these on a site that I tried to go to. The other was a forum,which shall remain nameless (not gem related, don't worry). The scary part is that I haven't seen this warning for years, but now it's twice within a month.

Apparently there are web crawlers that submit viruses instead of comments/emails into forums. Those annoying little curvy letters that you see and have to re-type before submitting something?-- that's how some web masters deal with the crawlers. The crawlers can't read the curvy letters.

So something is definitely up on the web, I hope that our beloved PS is taking precautions. . .

 

[VapidLapid]

Anyone know what that malware is, or does, or what it may have done to the computers of those who visited the site?

 

[VapidLapid]

I ran MacScan on my computer and found no malware and only 17 tracking cookies mostly from ads from the likes of cnn. I was scared because I had gone to gemarts and had the same scary message. First thing I did was force quitted my browser. Seeing this threadtoday I got scared to look at any gem sites and wondered if the malicious-ware could follow us into here...

 

[smitcompton]

Hi All,

I have come across this several times on stock boards, the yahoo stock board specifically. I thought, at the time they were trying to track your info, hoping to gain access to financial records. I stopped going there for a while, but have gone back, with no repeat of warnings and shutting down of my computer.

Thanks for the warning.
Annette

 

[JewelFreak]

It will probably be ok tomorrow. It's mean, mean to do that to a nice guy like that!

--- Laurie

 

[iLander]

I wanted to let everyone know that Jerry's site is back up, and working fine.

He recently sent me an email about a huge green sapphire he cut for blazengems. The sapphire is from the Eldorado Bar Mine in Montana. It's 9.25 mm square and 4.61 carats, so it's a whopper for a sapphire. Blazen gems has priced it accordingly, over $9,000! Thought you all would like to see Jerry's pic (hairy knuckles and all )

The sapphire is here: http://blazengems.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=3&products_id=258

 

[ooo~Shiney!]

WOW

That's all.

 

[JewelFreak]

Mamma mia! Bellissimo. Glad his site's fixed too. You can never have too many places to look at gems.

--- Laurie

 

[T L]

I wanted to let everyone know that Jerry's site is back up, and working fine.

He recently sent me an email about a huge green sapphire he cut for blazengems. The sapphire is from the Eldorado Bar Mine in Montana. It's 9.25 mm square and 4.61 carats, so it's a whopper for a sapphire. Blazen gems has priced it accordingly, over $9,000! Thought you all would like to see Jerry's pic (hairy knuckles and all )

The sapphire is here: http://blazengems.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=3&products_id=258

That's the same exact cut he used on my mint Afghan tourmaline (4.5 cts).

 

[chrono]

TL,
That was exactly my first thought too - it's the same cut as your mint tourmaline!