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Post by bunnypie on Sept 2, 2016 21:43:48 GMT -5
Hey Jo---My hi tech computer guy pin pointed the exact area where the virus was attached to a picture of 2 dogs. You have to be careful when you import pix that they are clean. Max is Lax in getting things done. My friend gave you an email address to contact him so he could explain exactly what happened, and YESSSSSSSSSS I did go thru horrible withdrawls from not being able to come to this site. My friend actually was able to do a procedure to clean out the trojan virus. He is that good!!! I am letting people know that the site is okay now and hopefully we can get some more people. It was a serious problem that had to be taken care of! I was not imagining it. I am very glad that it is okay now. The slogan This Too Shall Pass actually did happen.........Bunnypie
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 2, 2016 22:45:13 GMT -5
Please BP, enough already about the virus. Max fixed it, hopefully your friend fixed your computer. Why would I want to contact him? I have no desire to contact him. I gave the information you gave me to Max. That is all I can do. All you had to do in the first place was tell me where you found it.
I have had a friend clean and reformat mine too. I only have a little notebook, so I try not to go where I can pick a virus up. My computer generally tells me if a site is unsafe. As I have said, "I have been all over the site and didn't come across any virus."
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 2, 2016 23:58:08 GMT -5
Just for today, I will try to have a day of rest. I have had busy days this week and the body is protesting. I wanted to go to bed but the body wouldn't allow me to rest. I did a meditation when I came back from doing laundry. Maybe I should have just prayed and asked for forgiveness for abusing my body by going out shopping and to my chiropractors for 5 hours, only to come home and do laundry for 3 hours. Laughing, this is how my body feels, all tied up in nots. Having problems putting one foot in front of the other.
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Post by bunnypie on Sept 3, 2016 2:57:41 GMT -5
Hey Jo---I just want you to know that it was NOT my computer that had the problem it was a picture that YOU imported from a site that carried a virus attached to it and brought it to this site. I don't know all the particular details. I am NOT a computer geek. My friend is!!!! He wanted to explain and educate you about this so you don't pass virus on to others!!!! I am only trying to educate you and others so we don't make the same mistake and crash our computers!!! I went thru hell trying to get my computer cleaned up. It sounds like you went thru some tech stuff too to clean up your device!!!! All this causes time & $ & anxiety. I enjoy coming to this site and don't want to have to go thru anxiety time or $. I am just trying to make that real clear. The hi tech friend of mine is willing to explain all this to you. IF you don't want to understand or know the reasons WHY this happened and want to say "well I never saw anything" I would have to tell you that you are in denial. Denial can kill you and I hope you will have an open mind and contact this friend. He is a member of this site right now. His name is F150 and you can send him a private message and ask for an explanation. I am still confused on how to do a private msg. I know how to reply to one but not how to start one. I don't claim to be a computer geek!!! I just like to post and talk about the chips and keep it in the NOW!!!! I enjoy your pix and how they relate to what you are saying!!! PLEASE just try to make sure they are "disease" free!!! Thanks------Bunnypie
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Post by f150 on Sept 3, 2016 3:13:26 GMT -5
Hey Jo---My hi tech computer guy pin pointed the exact area where the virus was attached to a picture of 2 dogs. You have to be careful when you import pix that they are clean. Max is Lax in getting things done. My friend gave you an email address to contact him so he could explain exactly what happened, and YESSSSSSSSSS I did go thru horrible withdrawls from not being able to come to this site. My friend actually was able to do a procedure to clean out the trojan virus. He is that good!!! I am letting people know that the site is okay now and hopefully we can get some more people. It was a serious problem that had to be taken care of! I was not imagining it. I am very glad that it is okay now. The slogan This Too Shall Pass actually did happen.........Bunnypie to all concerned here...I am in IT and do it for a living...and I don't want to get in the middle here...but there are several animated .GIF files that have been posted that do contain code that is pretty nasty...when I came to this site in the past ...it was for the conversation...the advice...the help...and to share what I had learned and to have people share what they have learned...I guess this site has become more like Facebook...if you want to post animations...and cute pictures...please make sure they are clean...doesn't matter if you have a little notebook...or a Frankenstein computer...if you are posting from any other site there is always the possibility of embedded malicious code...just because you have the right to do somrthing...it doesn't mean it is the right thing to do....and as I am trying to be careful with my wording here...but people have left this site because of this....I have been going through past posts to get caught up...and have found a bunch of attitude...and a little bickering...and a lot of stuff that doesn't need to be here...I can go to Facebook...or YouTube to see cute kittens...and animated GIFs...Now this is just my opinion...but the name of this website is "essence of recovery"....We should concentrate on that...now my backyard is pretty clean...check yours...we can have fun here...we can learn here...but check you attitude at the door...
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Post by bunnypie on Sept 3, 2016 3:22:25 GMT -5
Dear F-150---Thanks! & Amen!!! BTW Amen means "so be it in Hebrew"------Bunnypie
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 3, 2016 8:34:01 GMT -5
Post pictures, for me they have a story, in and of themselves, and sometimes, just because they are cute. We had over 300 people coming, and one day last week it dropped to 89.
I am not sure if they come for the pictures or the post. I was trying to attract people to the site. Lin posts in check in and occasionally Al-Anon and Nar-Anon. BP posts in chipping away and in check in. It get kind of difficult talking to myself. That is why I have gone back to old posts for topics.
I am not saying you didn't have a virus and I am sorry it was one of my pictures. My computer generally tells me if there is a virus in a gif or on the site I go to. I generally go to Yahoo and Angelwinks. I use to go to Google, but changed servers. I thought the problem was that you didn't have virus protection on your computer. I am sorry if I am wrong, but it is not safe to go online without it. I know you got virus protection now, you posted that before you left the site.
I am just tired of hearing virus, virus, virus. It is old news. To my knowledge, Max fixed it. I don't know because I don't have any way of changing or checking anything on the board, so if you want, I will stop posting pictures. It will mean less time I spend posting. I just wish that others participated on the board. As I have said, "I have been all over the board, brought old posts forward, and had no problem."
This is the last I will say on the subject, too much has been said already.
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 3, 2016 14:45:49 GMT -5
Just for today, I will practice patience and tolerance. My son took his bike and went to work on the mountain. He always goes for drugs when he gets paid, so mother is trying to detach and not worry and stress. He started chili before he got the call to go to work, so mother has to finish. I had to go and get the ingredients, which met another trip downtown, which I didn't want to make today. Good things do come out of not so good things. I found some clear garbage bags to put some clothes in and I found most of what I needed in the $1. store.
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Post by bunnypie on Sept 3, 2016 23:08:53 GMT -5
Hey Jo---If you are going to bring up past posts you should definitely bring up the one that F-150 made. He mentioned a lot of good things! It is important to make people feel safe and comfortable. It is good to have fun and be able to share and also listen!!!! When you say "virus-virus-virus" it really makes it seem like you are minimizing my anxiety, time, & money that I had to go thru!!! I am okay now and willing to put it in the past. I just feel that you need to promise/swear that you will NEVER do that again!!! It is the 9th month and the 9th step says "made direct amends to such people when ever possible except when to do so would injure them or others" A real good amend is to change the things you can. PLEASE be careful with your pix!!!!! PLEASE!!! Off Topic: I am glad you got some good bargains at the dollar store! I love the dollar store!-----Bunnypie
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 4, 2016 8:36:56 GMT -5
If it will make you feel better, I will omit the pictures, if that is what you want. I do have a problem with it, because they tell a story, and part of the message will be lost. It was part of my goal to attract people. When I came back to the site, there were only 130 approx. visitors. The number got up to being over 300 on a good day. Now we are back down to an all time low at 89 and 99. It makes me sad. You had no virus protection, so why should you feel you are exempt from a virus and it is all my fault. I am not very techie, and it took me a long time to learn how to copy and paste.
I will still put in a picture for a day can start anytime. A picture is safe if my computer protection doesn't tell me there is something wrong. We are talking about one picture. The last server I used closed and all my pictures were deleted. I will not put any pictures in response to your posts.
You have not share how you are doing, how your chemo is going, how you are doing health wise, all you have talked about was a virus that happened weeks ago.
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 4, 2016 8:38:41 GMT -5
Just for today, I will focus on my recovery. I will deal with my feelings, I will allow myself to feel and turn them over to my Higher Power and ask for His Help in letting them go. I can't, my God can, just for today, I choose to let Him. Poor Eeyore is always sad and depressed. He needs to go to his Higher Power to help him with his emotions.
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Post by bunnypie on Sept 4, 2016 11:28:24 GMT -5
Hi Jo---I am not saying to NOT do pix!!! I am saying BE CAREFUL!!!! I am not doing very well with my side effects of chemo treatment and having this site as a back up life line WTTW (window to the world) was so important to me. I did have virus protection but it was NOT strong enough to fight the virus and it crashed my computer. Me & my computer were deathly sick at the same time!!!! I was devastating physically, mentally, spiritually, and it was traced to one of your pix!!! Again I enjoy your pix but PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE (x 5 means sincere) make sure they are clean!!! I have 5 more chemo treatments and then I go under the knife for surgery. This web site and column are a security blanket to me and I really need/want EOR right now!!! Thanks for understanding-----Bunnypie
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Post by gm on Sept 4, 2016 11:39:46 GMT -5
After reading these posts I think that Bunnypie & Majestyjo should stick to the format of the site. If an IT guy has verified that a picture was the problem in this situation then I would suggest that you stick to text and not use pictures. Not all virus software no matter how good it is will not catch all malware and virus! So I think the 2 of you should move forward and stick to the format of helping people.
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 4, 2016 15:33:24 GMT -5
Thank you, I do have Malware as well has virus protection. If a picture has a virus, my computer tells me if it has one. I will stick to text, for A DAY CAN START ANYTIME and the ABCs I will continue to post pictures.
I am not discounting your feelings BP, I have had crashes in the past on my old computer. It is not fun not having a computer. I have gone months without one. I am just saying, it is time to move on. You are not the only one. My mouse wasn't working and I had to click it several times to find the spot on the mouse that worked. It was very frustrating and time consuming, but I didn't let it stop me from posting. That is when a picture with a quote came in handy, but even that was difficult with no mouse. Now my keys are stiking, especially the "c."
At the moment, my keys are stiking and I press down a key and it doesn't print. Meanwhile, I am typing the end of the sentence, only to find a typing error and I have to check to see if my post is right. Having been a secretary, an assistant bookkeeper, and an office manager, I still haven't got past all the short cuts they make in today. I have been told to not be a perfectionist. It isn't trying to be perfect, it was the way I was taught and part of who I am. It bothers me when I see the typos that I made when I posted as Caressa. I can't go in and change them.
Thank you for sharing gm, that is what I have been doing here for years. Many people left, but I kept coming back.
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 5, 2016 7:53:45 GMT -5
Just for today, I will let go of any and all resentments that I have carried over into today. I will say a prayer, because I know that prayer works.
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Post by bunnypie on Sept 5, 2016 22:12:01 GMT -5
open up that tight vice like mind and let one ray of sunshine in.........
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 6, 2016 21:17:09 GMT -5
Today I will practice patience and tolerance. As I found out today, which verified what I was told years ago in early recovery, "If you pray for patience, you get things to tolerate to practice your patience on. I forgot why I stopped going to the Hairdresser School to get my hair cut. My haircut took 1 1/2 hours to get done. I left home at 10 after 10 and after very long day of busy, I got home at 10 to 4 p.m. Then I did two loads of my laundry and helped my son do some of his. Thankfully we got through the day without pulling any hissy fits.
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Post by bunnypie on Sept 6, 2016 23:59:59 GMT -5
Hey Jo----Just be grateful you have hair to get cut!!! I have been bald for 5 months now and it is miserable!!! Congratulations of getting laundry done! That is always a real tedious chore!!!---Bunnypie
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 7, 2016 12:45:31 GMT -5
Smiling, a guy came in and got a buzz cut and I thought, Gee, I should do that. If I didn't have the birthmark from when I was born, I would have long ago. If my reason for losing 30 lbs. is because of cancer, then I will probably be joining you. I have had my hair about a half inch long at one time many years ago when I was in my 50s when I went back to school. I went into a pool and it turned my then auburn hair plum. My sister tried to correct it and it went marroon, and when it grew out a bit, I had all my hair chopped off.
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 7, 2016 12:48:23 GMT -5
Just for today, I will give thanks. I have had many gifts as a result of this program. Each day is a new beginning, so I plan to have a good one. Stuff doesn't matter to me any more. It is nice, but it is more important to have my serenity and sobriety (soundness of mind). This post has been a blessing to many. I started it at Tammy's site (a member), and have had over 10,000 reads. Have talked about defects of character in the 12 Step section and have almost 4,800 reads. They seldom respond, once in a while there will be an acknowledgement of thanks on the post, so people are appreciative of what you started so long ago.
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