UGH!
Yesterday my inbox was filled with emails from some of you advising me that you received SPAM emails from me. Apparently someone in Argentina cracked my code! I have changed my password and will be running anti-virus scans on my computer today. Please let me know if you continue to receive spam from me.
I sincerely regret that this happened and hope that you didn’t click on the links.
Hugs and stuff,
Diana
p.s. I wish I was in Argentina! 🙂
talktodiana 
Ha ha so many good comments 🙂
I’m just upset the Argentinian didn’t think enough of me – no email here!
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count your blessings!
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🙂
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I was actually glad I was spammed because all of my friends had run out of fake viagra. Whew, talk about ‘just in time’.
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Oh my gosh James! I just spit my water out of my mouth! That is sooooooo funny! Thanks for my Thursday laugh!
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Hi Keith thanks! I tried to click on the link and all I get is a blank page with a message telling me that I am not allowed to edit this item!
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Hi Diana, sorry about that. I noticed an error and wanted to correct it before I sent the link. Here is the proper one, please delete the other message or edit out the link.
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That’s what Bill said too! You’re both brilliant and thank you so much!
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Bill’s idea is super! I will have to remember that. I got hacked on Twitter recently so I understand the pain. As you said, this too shall pass. 😉
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When my twitter was hacked, while I was on a tropical vacation and taking a break from all online activity, someone was sending sexually explicit invitations from my account. I was mortified!
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Not to worry– it happens– I’ve had my share too on my website, blog and email. Not sure how to fix it but someone suggested changing passwords frequently which in theory is good practice but I can never remember them!
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Thanks for your understanding. Bill had a great idea for passwords here, did you read his comment?
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Sorry to hear. 😦 I also had a creepy experience with hackers. Last week, a hacker called us, and said he was calling from Microsoft, from Texas, and he said he can see that, my computer was hacked….no, I believe he said my internet was hacked and he was calling me to guide me through to fix it. I just needed to log on and he’d show me how. My hubby then asked him, which computer is he talking about(only one of them has Microsoft), which IP number. The guy said the cops would show up if we don’t fix it, he couldn’t answer which IP was he talking about, mumbled something….and hung up. Ahh…
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Yikes, smart husband! All calls about your computer not working properly are spam! Just tell them to &*^&$%&*^ off and hang up!
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The same thing happened to me this week. I changed my password and upgraded my security. The incident was part of that “bad” day I just wrote about. My condolences for the time you lost getting everything back to normal!
Russ
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Thanks Russ for your empathy! Ahh-h this too shall pass…
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when you pick a password pick a phrase you can remember and take the first letter and throw in a number and special character. Works pretty good: for example: I will come to you tonight might be: Iwcty2n! Some like to replace every “a” with @ or some other combination. Once you make it part of your “plan” you will have good passwords.
Of course the issue is having enough entropy in the password because computer brute force attacks ( try every combination ) can break even good passwords if they are too short.
happy phrasing 🙂
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Thanks Bill for this awesome advice because my big issue is always remembering the password when I pick one full of numbers or symbols – this is good!
xo
Diana
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or…. just write it down and stick it under your keyboard on a sticky note 🙂 ( just kidding )
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haha I always lose notes!
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one part of hacking is called “social engineering” convincing people to tell you their passwords or enough to get their login.
The first step of social engineering is to go to their keyboard, turn it over and look for their password on the post it note. True story…
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I believe you! Never Ever give up parts of, reasons why you chose a password, PIN # anything to anyone, even family EVER! Social Engineering – Wow!
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