Creative Spanko Wench Blog

I dunno what’s been up for the last couple of days, but I’ve been unable to open either the Gallery or this blog and comments have stopped comming through to my e-mail.  Every try to get on took me to that “page cannot be found” error page.  I paniced that I’d been hacked or had my quite expensive accounts shut down for some reason the didn’t see fit to tell me about.  Needless to say I’ve spent a lot of time these last few day on hold and trying to trouble shoot with Go Daddy support folks.  Miraculously, without any explainable reason the pages started to load again just an hour ago.  I’m sorry if I’ve seemed off line to anyone else too.  It was not by choice.  I’m hoping it was something with my computer.  McAffee’s been popping up with a lot of “Registry change” warnings asking me if I want to block or allow them these last several days.  Even though I choose block each time, when I’ve checked my firewall event log I see some registry access requests have been allowed without any warning between the pop ups. 

It may be time for me to retire this lap top.  I’m just too darned illiterate in these things to be able to problem solve what kind of spyware has loaded through all the protection I try to keep up to date, and find out never mind disable who has gained access to my drives, passwords etc.  Someone has though.  My cookies keep clearing all by themselves and my aol & yahoo passwords keep gettng changed so almost everytime I want to log on to either I have to go through the ID check thing & no longer have access to that e-mail rigamarole.  I came home yesterday to find the log in screen to g-mail open.  Every so often g-mail will make you re-login, so I just hit the ok button.  It didn’t go through because the username & password didn’t match - hey???????  both of those fields were already populated, I just hit ok.  What’s up?  I didn’t repopulate the now empty fields, I just closed the window in frustration.  Well apparently some spyware can do that - pop up what looks like a legit screen hoping when its boggus data forces a reload request from the legit site,  you’ll just repopulate it without even thinking it’s a ploy so it can capture your real userID and password and you will never be the wiser.  Too much of that’s been happening to me lately, be it getting in to go daddy, stat counter, aol, yahoo, or this blog’s administration.  It seems like I’m getting booted mid use and required to re-enter, or I’m just trying to enter and being forced to retrieve my “forgotten” password, or even told in e-mails that my password’s been requested to be changed without ever having made such a request.  Thing is I never follow links in e-mails to provided addresses to answer these things, I always back out and go to the main site and access customer service links.  I never enter my user id or password in any site I have not actively gone to from my saved favorites.  Is it possible that there’s a worm or spyware that’s able to tag and track favorites and autopopulate features in both apple/mac & windows that is still flyng under the radar?  Who knows…

Anyway, I’ve not been absent on purpose, just so you know.  If all goes well I’ll try and catch up tomorrow, but for now, thank you ALL who’ve said hi.  I read all of you today and really wish I could stay up to answer right away since I’ve been so delinquent.  It’s a work day though, and I have a very early morning tomorrow… gotta be there before 7AM to reach night shift with some essential stuff before they go home & they really deserve not to be held up too much past their sleep time.

Thanks for your patience if you’ve been blocked from even reading here like me, sorry for being deliquent in answering comments for the last 4 days.  I owe y’all

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