Friday, June 21, 2019

Editor's Note

Cleaning up my computer hard-drive right now. Was hit with virus, and needed to purge everything. My back-up computer was also infected. I should be back to blogging within the hour.
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

How do you think that happens? WNU Editor is obviously a very computer savvy person. I periodically run AV checks on my computers (they are Macs) and I never find any bad files. There must be some vulnerability related to the work that WNU has to do.

June 21, 2019 at 11:18 AM
War News Updates Editor said...

Anon,

I found the source of my headache, and it came from a link that ABC News used from the Jerusalem Post.

I easily visit a minimum of 75 websites a day, and I check and run AV and other programs to check my computers every third or fourth day. In this case the problem occurred right away when I went to this Israeli site. My computer became slow and stuck in limbo. Went to my back-up computer and did the same thing .... same problem appeared.

Visiting websites in Israel have always caused problems for me. Their news and government websites are always installing cookies and other tracking tools into my computer, and if not attended it becomes a real problem after a short period of time. In this case the problem reared its ugly head right away.

Everything is now OK. Both computers are humming along nicely.

I do use Macs, but for blogging I find there are two extra steps that I must go through to copy and paste information or images. Best to use a PC.

June 21, 2019 at 11:30 AM

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