Bad Computer Stuff

George Grand
George Grand Posts: 12,258
edited April 2011 in The Clubhouse
I'm not the computer/internet expert around this house, and my wife, the former Theresa Talamonti isn't much to write home about in this area either. Stephie's probably the sharpest, but she's got her own laptop, and our main job here would have to be on fire before she'd concern herself with it.

About two or three weeks ago, bad stuff started happening at night. The first thing was the system by which we received email changed. Theresa sorted her way through that, and we had to use an alt method for a few days while she straightened it out (good girl). But there is still a three or four day chunk of time that we have no emails from. That is an impossibility.

Last night, something bad happened again. We no longer have a "Bookmarks" tab at the internet server Yahoo. We have a "Most Visited" tab which contains 6 or 7 our most frequented sites, but all the others are gone. Hundreds. Now we have to type an entire URL into the heading thing in order to move around.

These people suck.
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  • Serendipity
    Serendipity Posts: 6,975
    edited April 2011
    Yeah. I hate viruses, malware, and evil e-criminals. Hackers suck...
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited April 2011
    I don't think I'm a victim of malice. I think the internet provider Comcast, and the internet server there leave a great deal to be desired.
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  • Big Dawg
    Big Dawg Posts: 2,005
    edited April 2011
    George,

    Hope you figure it out. If not, I may be able to drop by later this week to lend a hand.
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  • Polkersince85
    Polkersince85 Posts: 2,883
    edited April 2011
    One of these days you may have to upgrade from that DX2 66 mhz.
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    >This message has been scanned by the NSA and found to be free of harmful intent.<
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  • fatchowmein
    fatchowmein Posts: 2,637
    edited April 2011
    Sorry, George. I'm not familiar with Yahoo but perhaps there's a solution and explanation for your missing bookmark at this link.

    http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080430010219AAraDmA


    Eventually, you may need to actually speak to Yahoo support. Hope they speak english.
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  • inspiredsports
    inspiredsports Posts: 5,501
    edited April 2011
    If it's hackers, all I can say is I HATE those 12 year-old evil geniuses.

    If it truly is the yahoo.com servers, it generally proves to be true that you get what you pay for (and I believe yahoo.com is free).
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited April 2011
    George, I see your post and I'm looking at my phone but I see no phone call from The Jersey Grands. Told you before, if you have a computer problem, just say so. I'll be glad to help out.
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  • Pycroft
    Pycroft Posts: 1,960
    edited April 2011
    George -

    I'm not sure if this is related to the forum, or to your computer issues, but I have sent you quite a few messages over the last 2 months via PM. I assumed that maybe I ended up on your Blacklist, but was hoping that was not so. In a message earlier this week that I posted, you responded to me and asked for some info, and I sent you another message. Can you let me know if you received it. If not, there may either be an issue with some spyware or something erasing messages to you, or maybe a forum glitch.

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