…they say on the Web, as anywhere, the delight of all the highs and great times we enjoy are enhanced by the experience of the downright ’f*ck ye off moments’...we all get them, Mabel…getting put in the Facebook Slammer for ‘friending’ Facebook’s own recommendations, and having some clown ‘reject’ you…that’s a favourite most of us get sooner or later…then there’s the Twitter barrier on acquiring too many followers too quickly (how do they expect to GROW their reach doing stuff like that?)…another slime-fest attack is the unexpected visit from a member of the Troll Brigade…I’ve already shared how I handle that one…polite the hell out of ‘em, then block ‘em..they get no sense of pleasure out of that…comes now my initial cyber attack on my Yahoo email account…I s’pose, paradoxically, I should feel honoured that my account should be deemed worthy of such an assault…it won’t rank up there on the ‘where were you when J.F.Kennedy, or John Lennon were.. etc, etc,’…but it was enough to induce a slight dose of the wobbles in the stomach…being the complete Anti-Genius on computers, I did what all self-respecting idiots do…I called a friend…the sanguine and well-behatted Author, John Dolan (he of the best-selling novel, EVERYONE BURNS fame)…he calmed me down…first thing to do is to CHANGE YER PASSWORD, he said… then SIGN OUT AND SIGN BACK IN AGAIN...this I did, and it seems to have done the trick meantime…I share this in the knowledge that prob’ly 99% of you out there already know this stuff, but for the 1% like me, this may help if you get attacked…one little thing more…you may not get the ability to SEND an email again immediately…Yahoo Email, quite correctly, will have noticed that the hacker has blitzed your address book contacts immediately with their Phishing nonsense, and will want to give a breathing space in between to ensure you are not still compromised…excellent stuff once you know it, but it caused a secondary wobble for me until I understood what it was doing…(BTW,— definition of a Sumo Wrestler…‘throwing a wobbler’)… now, I think they’ve sent for Matron with the syringe to calm me down even further—gotta scarper…see yeez later…
…sadly, the vermin are still out there, Mabel…what to do if your Yahoo email gets hacked…#TBSU…
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Change your password to something other than just letters and numbers . Authorseumas is easy to hack . AuTHor46$€umas?! Isn’t much harder to remember but a lot more secure.
i find it hard enough sometimes just to remember my bluudy name … let alone three trillion fekkin passwords…
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Poor Seumas! Now I know why you didn’t respond to my interview questions – I was *worried* about you! Thought you’d been stung by a scorpion or something! Yes, definitely – deathly ill and a gabillion miles away. That’s right where my mind went.
Passwords can be easy to remember and nearly impossible to hack at the same time, Seumas. For instance… take the first letter of each word in the first line or two of your favorite song. Amazing Grace would be Aghststsawlm! If there has to be a number in it too, switch the g with an 8 because grace and 8 sound similar and you’ll be hard pressed to forget it, right?
all great advice, m’Lady… and worry not on the interview response..will be forthcoming shortly.. I’m busy also moving apartments during these few days ,, but still have time to hit the laptop here and there …:):)