I’ve been informed that a few birding sites have been affected by a trojan virus recently – while there is nothing to indicate this site has been affected I have taken some precautionary steps to remove the “Fat Birder” and “Birder Top 1000″ widgets from this site as these are the widgets that have been reported on the Internet as having  been associated with the virus. Please note that the information I have is that these sites are all now “cured” – and the administrators of those sites have worked very hard to repair them and fix the associated security holes. However I’d rather play safe, and since these widgets don’t add much more than counters to site I’d rather remove them to be safe.

Anyone using an infected site with up-to-date virus and firewall software, and a decent browser, will be okay, but it serves as a timely reminder to everyone to keep such software up to date. I use AVG and ZoneAlarm – a quick internet search will help you find them, they’re free. I would also recommend scanning regularly with some trusted AntiMalware software too.

I take this sites security very seriously, and hope the above will reassure anyone who reads about the problems that this site is safe.

Anyone with any concerns or questions can email me: webmaster (-at-) erewashvalleywildlife.org.uk – removing the (-at-) and replacing it with @ (another battle we have is with spammers!).

Chris