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spiraling down down down

15 Friday Mar 2019

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Since ALL my websites were hacked on Wednesday (well, in truth they were hacked ten days ago, but I just found about it Wednesday when HostGator blocked them) I have been in a state of spiraling down… so down… because I don’t know what the hell I can do. At first my friend David came to the rescue and found a couple of dodgy things that he removed, and then I got BH to “whitelist” my sites again. But the next day it was the same nightmare and I am now almost hysterical.

It looks like I have lost a lot of content already, especially photos, and I don’t know how to make things right. And of course each day my sites are offline, I am losing money as nobody can find my tours. I get mixed advice from each help source I ask, and I honestly don’t know what to do next. My site has been taken over and the hackers are using them to run other sites, thereby overusing the CPU. If I don’t get this fixed soon my server with permanently block me. HELP???

hacked!

13 Wednesday Mar 2019

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What a day! Woke up to discover that ALL my websites had been blocked by my server HostGator – I was told they had been using too much CPU over an extended period of time. Say what?? I’d been having some problems with one site, which was linking to a page in Japanese when some people tried to access it, but I thought that had been sorted out.

Anyhow, with the help of my friend David, we worked out that the sites had been hacked, and David was able to get into the CPanel and remove the unwanted files, re-verified all my sites with Google (the hackers had changed the ownership to THEM!) and changed the passwords. I would have been totally lost without him. Phew! So now I have to get the site brought up to date in terms of plug-ins and php, then look at getting additional security –  wish me luck!

facetime eavesdropping bug

29 Tuesday Jan 2019

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Well, this is alarming. You have probably already heard about this, but in case you haven’t… TURN OFF FACETIME ON ALL YOUR DEVICES NOW.

It turns out that anyone can call you on your iPhone and, before you answer, simply swipe up from the bottom of the screen and add your number to a Facetime group. From then on, your iPhone will start transmitting audio to this person, even if you didn’t answer the call. And even worse! If you press the power button on your iPhone you will start transmitting video as well.

I have now disabled Facetime, which I never use anyhow, on my iPhone and iPad. This also affects Mac computers.

adiós sterling, sayonara loki!

01 Thursday Nov 2018

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Ever since I upgraded to the Boquerón I have been planning on wiping the drive on Sterling so that my friend Tomoko could buy it. To be honest, I kept putting it off because I’d never done this before and it seemed more than somewhat daunting. But when Tomoko said she would be in Sevilla for a couple of days and wanted to take Sterling home I was forced into action. And well, it wasn’t that bad after all, but it did take a very long time (approx 10 hours). The first attempt failed after a couple of hours and I had to start over again. But second time lucky and when I got back from my tour in the evening there was a squeaky clean laptop ready for its new home.

So Tomoko came over yesterday and we set up the newly-named Loki to make sure everything was working okay. After that we went shopping for a case and then Loki the Laptop was gone. Though of course Tomoko didn’t leave without giving Loki the Cat a thorough belly rub.

If anyone is interested, these were the instructions I followed…
How To Reset Your Windows 10 PC

ssd & hdd

21 Friday Sep 2018

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So after my accidental upgrade a couple of weeks ago, after Sterling had been acting up and I bought El Boquerón on sale as “insurance” (but then ended up keeping him), I was feeling quite chuffed. Because I had been assured that with Boquerón (aka HP ENVY-17-bw0001ns) I was getting the “latest generation” jazz, including not only 1 Tetra of HD memory, but also 128 GB of SSD memory, GUARANTEED to make my system run faster. So like wow, okay, sign me up (even though I had only a small idea of what SSD was).

And when I first got Boquerón up and running, this proved to be the case. Everything was zippity-do-dahing along like crazy, which was great. Though it was a bit faffy setting up and uploading my gazillion photos to the D-drive (HDD) to keep the C-drive (SSD) unencumbered. And I thought I had been doing things right… until I was told yesterday that my SSD had next to no space left and I had to do SOMETHING about it.

And I have tried. But it would help if I knew what I was supposed to be doing. I have all my downloaded programmes and (of course) my gazillion photos stored on the HDD. And even after eliminating superfluous files and programmes from my C-drive, I still only have about 5 GB of free space on my SSD. WTF? HELP?