As far as being part of the “big picture”, all I can say is that I don’t want to see anyone else as frustrated and angry as I was yesterday. What frustrated me the most was not being able to get to a body, a voice, someone who could say, “Yeah, this is unusual, something’s weird here.”

And as much as I tried to find someone who had some kind of guidelines for this stuff on blog searches and boards, even, I really came up against bits and pieces without any real order or even context to them. It seems to me that organizing them in one place where someone could come and refer to it for at least a series of actions to take beats the heck out of beating their head on a wall like I did.

DnW

After all my problems when my sql password was changed – locking me out – I have really done all I can do at my end of the deal to protect myself. I no longer use IE I use Firefox. I use yahoo mail and thunderbird – never outlook. Anywhere that allows it I use long combination passwords – letters numbers and symbols – all random. The password thing has turned into such a cluster mess that I have committed the worst sin of all – oh my goodness- I have them written down here at my computer desk. I figure if someone breaks in and steals my computer and takes the time to find the passwords and use em I will deal with it. The chance of that is smaller than the chance of me remembering an eleven character password.

Hackers are __________ I am glad you have made some progress and hope you do get back all your mail.

I imagine once you have solved this issue and blog all the steps your ratings will increase – which in turn will probably bring on more hackers LOL it is a visous cycle.

You do realize that taking the time to: “if for no other reason than to have a series of steps on the blog for anyone else who might have this happen to them. I’m keeping screenshots and copies of my email so that I can create a complete record of what happened and when.” Is a very non self centered thing to do and very much apart of “the big picture”