I went to my PageFlakes account and discovered it was missing.
So I re-signed up and made my pages . . . again. I was wondering where all the choice backgrounds were, did they change the site?
But then I discovered that I had a NetVibes account and that was what I was looking for.
However, NetVibes was not loading the widgets for me so I continued working with my new PageFlakes page which seemed easier to use and had a few features NetVibes lacked.
However, after my set up and a view a day or so later, there were the ugly fixed ads.
NetVibes does not seem to have this.
OK -- someone cleared the computer cookies and files and when I went back to my PageFlakes -- all my pages went MISSING! Well, it was "missing" in the first place when I thought I had an account but did not! This time it was for real. Not sure if I will go back and use it.
I went back to NetVibes but still the same downloading problem existed but my pages were still there. I could not add any new widgets because I could not see them to add them.
I checked my TabUp account and those pages are still there also. TabUp is a bit confusing to me but I use it as a back-up, however, it may be a permanent thing since I have no accessing issues there.
Anyone have a clue about why my PageFlakes page went missing?
Update: PageFlakes closed down January 2012.
Tab Up also closed down November 2014.
Showing posts with label computer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label computer. Show all posts
1/10/09
Search Engine Hijack Fix
Happy New Year.
OK so I am a little late.
We have been fighting off colds inbetween all the shovelling of snow and breaking up ice and the frigid cold temps.
Then our computer got a virus too -- a search engine hijack. No fun. We could not do anything really without getting spam site links coming up although we could see the proper info. I first noticed this on my blog here when I did a search for one of my posts. So when you moused over the link or clicked on the link, you would be taken to the spam site, not the site you were looking for. Don't click on the links!
This went on for pages and pages at Google, MSN, Yahoo searches and for days.We were also getting pop ups for cleaning our system saying we have so many virus issues and trojans. They look like they are part of your system but the blinking icons give them away along with a URL -- so watch out.
We could use Ask.com and Metacrawler or Dogpile searches with regular results, no spam links there. The computer also ran slow and we have high speed FiOs.
So after so much Norton scanning (which they did NOT find it) for days; a call to Norton, which they requested us pay $100 to clean up our puter, AdAware, SpyBlaster and SpyBot, a registry clean, and Malwarebytes Anti-Malware scans, and several studies of our HiJack This log (all free downloads), the virus still NOT gone, my daughter suggested AVAST, a FREE download for anti-virus scanning and low and behold, THEY found the culprit and quarentined it. She uses Avast regularly (the free version, there is a paid one also) on her laptop and has had great consistant results -- it updates daily.
We are all set for now.
It was suggested by others we talked to, to not only run one but a couple of anti-virus softwares because not every one scan product finds every thing.Naturally, we also told Norton that they need to put this fix on their list to eliminate other people from the headaches of a search engine hijack.
My daughter also told us that using FireFox would be a better choice to use on the internet since those sorts of things don't happen as much. Yes, the exact same advice given to me in my computer courses that I eventually earned a degree in. Not a good student I guess since I have not practiced the advice learned.
So maybe someone will learn something from this little frustrating cyber-ad venture.
Hope it helps someone.
Avast -- free virus cleaning download
Search Engine Hijacking Article -- explains the issue well but no helpful tips.
Hijacked Proxy Server URLs Remedy -- an advanced discussion on how you can prevent this by adding codes to your site.
OK so I am a little late.
We have been fighting off colds inbetween all the shovelling of snow and breaking up ice and the frigid cold temps.
Then our computer got a virus too -- a search engine hijack. No fun. We could not do anything really without getting spam site links coming up although we could see the proper info. I first noticed this on my blog here when I did a search for one of my posts. So when you moused over the link or clicked on the link, you would be taken to the spam site, not the site you were looking for. Don't click on the links!
This went on for pages and pages at Google, MSN, Yahoo searches and for days.We were also getting pop ups for cleaning our system saying we have so many virus issues and trojans. They look like they are part of your system but the blinking icons give them away along with a URL -- so watch out.
We could use Ask.com and Metacrawler or Dogpile searches with regular results, no spam links there. The computer also ran slow and we have high speed FiOs.
So after so much Norton scanning (which they did NOT find it) for days; a call to Norton, which they requested us pay $100 to clean up our puter, AdAware, SpyBlaster and SpyBot, a registry clean, and Malwarebytes Anti-Malware scans, and several studies of our HiJack This log (all free downloads), the virus still NOT gone, my daughter suggested AVAST, a FREE download for anti-virus scanning and low and behold, THEY found the culprit and quarentined it. She uses Avast regularly (the free version, there is a paid one also) on her laptop and has had great consistant results -- it updates daily.
We are all set for now.
It was suggested by others we talked to, to not only run one but a couple of anti-virus softwares because not every one scan product finds every thing.Naturally, we also told Norton that they need to put this fix on their list to eliminate other people from the headaches of a search engine hijack.
My daughter also told us that using FireFox would be a better choice to use on the internet since those sorts of things don't happen as much. Yes, the exact same advice given to me in my computer courses that I eventually earned a degree in. Not a good student I guess since I have not practiced the advice learned.
So maybe someone will learn something from this little frustrating cyber-ad venture.
Hope it helps someone.
Avast -- free virus cleaning download
Search Engine Hijacking Article -- explains the issue well but no helpful tips.
Hijacked Proxy Server URLs Remedy -- an advanced discussion on how you can prevent this by adding codes to your site.
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