HI this is diviner,
Firstly consultant.com is not a domain it is just part of my free email address on mail.com. Secondly if you have gotten Gator or any other stuff it is not from tripod or my site. I flew to the site in a full panic because I would be furious if something like that were going on. I contacted tripod and I also downloaded, unpacked and virus checked all the files to be certain that they were virus free. I also checked my machine to be certain that it did not have Gator or any malware that might be piggy backing on my files as I upload them. The files are virus free, my machine is virus free (checked with adaware, spybot search and destroy, mcafee and norton). If Gator is involved in this I will remind folks that Gator is packed into a number of freewares and also jumps on through some other sites. I have several sites through tripod and a community of users that have regularly visited my other sites for over 3 years. None of them have ever had problems with Gator or any other ware (most of them are personal friends and would tell me of it immediately). I am very distressed over all of this because I have wanted so badly to give something back to Renderosity and the Poser community in return for all knowledge and products that I have gathered here over the years. I am still waiting for a reply from tripod / Lycos. Frankly I use Firefox as well because it has such a great popup blocker. If anyone can tell me a good place to host my site and my files I would happily leave Tripod. I tryed the recommended site that the admin told me about but I cannot get the FTP to work. My situation is such that I am building as I go. I am on a fixed income and cannot purchase a domain until my first products are on the market. It took forever for me to save up the money to puchase Poser 5 and the other software that I use. I am VERY unhappy about this. I have had almost a 1000 downloads of my freebies since I put them up and this thread is the only place there has been any mention of anything happening. I have received dozens of emails complimenting my freebies and inquiering after custom made starwars and Mech type models. None of these folks has mentioned any malware. I have had some comments about there being some tripod popups though.

I am deep in investigation of this as I would rather have my freebies removed from Renderosity than think that I was infesting your machines with Gator!

William