What's Happening At Branson

[jbunkley]

Did a GOOGLE for Branson Tractors and came up with this:

Branson Tractors This site may harm your computer.
Copyright @ Branson Tractor 2007 All right reserved. 2100 Cedartown Highway Rome, GA 30161 / Phone: 877-734-2022 / Fax: 877-734-0637.
www.bransontractor.com/ - Similar pages


The warning says this site may harm your computer.
I wanted to check their site to see where the closest dealer is located, since mine has gone out of business.

It's time to do a service and don't know where to get my filters & fluids.
But now i am scared to go to Branson's site to find out.

 

[mas1237]

The Branson link seems to be working fine.
http://www.bransontractor.com/main.asp[/URL]
Could be your local John Deere dealer has hi-jacked your computer so you will buy "green" instead.

 

[Buckeye_Jim]

I had no problem getting in also. Did notice they have redone their web site.

Jim

 

[MicroPilot]

He's not saying the website is broken, but that Google posts a warning during a search that the website has probable malware.

 

[Cocre]

I believe there is a bad problem on the Branson site. I went to the site and my virus scan software (AVG Free version) popped up all kind of warnings. Also the Internet Explorer wanted to run snapview.ocx. Me, like an idiot, ignored the virus warnings and answered yes to the prompt (what can be bad about a tractor site?). Next thing I know I get a popup box about my default email address book.

From what I can figure the site is trying to install a keylogger and also take screenshots of sites you visit that may make you select a picture or icon to enter.

At any rate you can go to the Branson site and watch the bottom left corner of your IE window. It looks to be taking you to www0.douhunqn.cn/crss/ksx.htm.

Oh well, I guess I will throw this PC away.

Cocre

 

[MicroPilot]

Most likely they've been hacked.

It could also be that they let the domain expire and someone else controls it now.

 

[ronT]

Spoke to Branson this morning about other issues but mentioned that their web site was not working. My anti virus program stated it was a trojan virus.

Their site is now working again.

 

[swigginton]

For some reason they have multiple websites.

Visit Branson Tractors yields a different webpage than www.bransontractor.com (the pages contain the same basic info, but completely different appearance/layout/theme)

And if you accidentally add an s to either of the above URLS it forwards you to a dealership in Indiana/Ohio/West Virginia.