MajorGeeks Reviews

This site's file has some types of Trojan inside,,,, be aware!

https://www.virustotal.com/en/url/e1f424b32c8f11656bd592c13e598d2251b9a430b68413581120acf889f46121/analysis/1439775956/

Detection ratio: 2 / 63
Analysis date: 2015-08-17 01:45:56 UTC ( 0 minutes ago )
ParetoLogic Malware site
Quttera Malicious site

http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/www.majorgeeks.com/
Status: Outdated Software detected. Immediate Action is Recommended.
Web Trust: Not Currently Blacklisted (10 Blacklists Checked)
Website Firewall Not Found Medium Risk Patch and Protect
Website Outdated Detected High Patch and Protect
ISSUE DETECTED DEFINITION VULNERABLE HEADER
Outdated Web Server Apache Found Vulnerabilities on Apache 2.2 Apache/2.2.22

http://quttera.com/detailed_report/www.majorgeeks.com

Warning: Malware Detected On This Website!
Submission date: Thu Mar 12 03:12:21 2015
Server IP address: 74.50.120.86
Country: United States
Server: Apache/2.2.22
Malicious files: 17
Suspicious files: 137
Potentially Suspicious files: 1
Clean files: 82
External links detected: 100
Iframes scanned: 5
Blacklisted: Yes
List of blacklisted external links: 20

https://www.digicert.com/help/

DNS resolves 'www.majorgeeks.com' to 74.50.120.86
No certificates were found.

I run a computer repair business. I looked at majorgeeks.com recently and I'm not impressed with their web page. I get paid to remove malware and virus infections from people's computers. Most tell me the computer stopped working correctly after they or there kid(s) clicked on a link from a site they visited that says something like ... "Click here to scan your pc for viruses." What's the first thing on majorgeeks site that is noticeable when it loads up... A big green exclamation point with the words next to it "BEFORE YOU DOWNLOAD
Run a FREE scan to diagnose Windows errors."

Right, and my mother is Marry Poppins. What majorgeeks should do is give their visitors information about a anti malware product they support or endorse so the user can go their themselves.

I did browse around the site after the initial page I visited and each site of majorgeeks.com had a different ad at the top. I learned it's not majorgeeks offering to "fix" computers with a scan but the advertisement is. And that's a bad practice for a site that professes to be Geek. Majorgeeks.com needs to not support advertisements that will take a user to a different site that will "fix" (infect) their computer.

And anyone who reads this please don't click on any advertisement or link that professes to fix your registry or to scan your computer. If you want your computer to be scanned from online then go to a commercial antivirus company website like Bit Defender or Norton or whatever one you like that sells their software in retail stores and they will usually have an option to quick scan your computer online. Online scans aren't too accurate but if you have a virus on your computer those types of scans MAY pick something up. It's best to not browse the web without a virus scanner and a firewall though. So why would anyone be clicking on an ad to scan their computer in the first place? I guess people do it so they can call someone up like me to pay money to undo that click. Apparently it's really fun to click on such an ad because lots of people keep doing it. I'm a really boring guy. I never click on those types of ads.

After seeing glowing reviews on malwarebytes.org I went to their site to download the free version and when I hit the download button I was sent to majorgeeks.com for the download. Majorgeeks.com recommended in their "tips" section that before downloading the malwarebytes I should first make sure all my drivers are up to date and provided a download to do so. The download was uniblue driver scanner. I downloaded it, ran the scan, and it indicated that dozens of my drivers were so old they fell into the "ancient' category. When I clicked on the update drivers button, there was a request for payment first. Personally, I think it's wrong for majorgeeks to lead me down that path without indicating that the software they're recommending has a hidden charge for it to do anything. I should be told that before I download anything. I'll find somewhere else to download malwarebytes. I don't trust majorgeeks.

Users should check every file downloaded from this site with an up-to-date virus scanner before installing software.