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As you can see, the site is now up. Christian worked all of yesterday, last evening and this morning to purge the malicious malware that was inserted into the files by hackers. From what we can gather, the site was hacked on August 24th, two days before Google issued a warning, therefore I would urge all of you to run your anti virus software to thoroughly check your computer for viruses and malware.  We definitely don’t want to be the source of virus infection to any of the computers of those who check out the site. If you don’t have anti virus software (which everyone really should have and run regularly if you’re on the Internet) a list of free software is available here:

https://badwarebusters.org/main/itemview/120

Obviously the architects of this kind of malicious damage are very sophisticated and technically proficient. Hackers have managed to penetrate incredibly sophisticated security systems and install malware and viruses at Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook and government sites, to name just a few –  so no one is immune. I can’t stress strongly enough the necessity for you to run your anti virus program(s) on your home computers on a regular basis, daily if possible. If I’ve missed anything, Aunt Lynn will be posting more detailed instructions on how to protect your computers when she’s up (she lives in California so she’s 3 hours behind EST where I’m located and 8 hours behind Christian).

Thanks for your support.

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  • Hi Anne
    Christian is still working on restoring all the files. Be sure to activate your anti virus software since we want to make sure your computer is safe.

  • Thank you for the info. I’m running up to date IE and up to date Symantec firewalls and anti-virus, and they’ve come up clean on infections from your site (I did visit Friday morning). I’m afraid I’m not technically savvy enough to know whether they have failed to spot your particular virus.

    Thanks for the prompt notification when you were aware of the problem, and to Christian for working so hard to put it all right again.

    • Hello Faellie

      Thank you for stopping by and also for running your anti virus program. Christian is still doing some additional tests and Aunt Lynn will be making some modifications as well because we want your computers to be safe, or as safe as any of us can be on the Internet.

  • YAY, you’re back!!! :hurrah:

    I knew something was up when Norton came up and said they block an attempt to my computer when I came to the site on the 24th.

    I’m sorry this happened to you, Christian, and Lynn…..it’s extra work you didn’t need!!

    And to the hackers….. :curse:

    • Jaime
      I love your enthusiasm. 😀 We’re glad to be back too and hope that this doesn’t happen again.

      I never saw that green man – very inventive. lol

  • Thanks Christian and Aunt Lynn for all your work and thank you Wave for sending out the notifications. I was a bit freaked out when my browser still said there was a problem, but when I accessed the site through my OH’s laptop it was fine… so I remembered to clear my browser’s cache and that did the trick!

    Glad you’re back!! 😀

    • Leslie
      You should also run a virus check on all of your computers immediately because we have no idea whether the hackers managed to infect any other computers.

      We’re all glad to be back and Google has removed the warning so I assume that they checked and found no malware that might have escaped Christian’s eagle eye. 🙂

    • Hi Pia
      We wanted to make sure that the site was safe to visit before Christian gave the “all clear.” It’s good to be back.

  • So sorry to hear you were targeted this way, although you’re among prestigious company by the sounds of it!

    Glad everything is up and running again – nice one, Christian!

    • Hi Jo
      We should all send Christian virtual bottles of red wine – his favourite drink. I always thought all Germans drank beer. 🙂

      It was a harrowing 2 days that I don’t want to live through again.

  • I’m mostly a lurker around here, but I so missed this site while you were down, and I am very glad to see you back up and running again.

    For what it’s worth, I’m here just about every day, and all my scans came up clean.

    • Hi Dana
      We love our lurkers although we wish they would decloak occasionally.:)

      I’m very happy that your scans were clean. The last thing we would want would be to infect someone’s computer.

  • I’m glad you’re back up and running. 🙂 to tell you how much I love your site, I actually refrained from buying a few ebooks this weekend (it was so so difficult) because I wanted to see what you guys said about them first. 🙂 what would we do without all of you?

    • Brian
      It’s great to be missed but not for that reason. lol

      It was an awful weekend and I’m so happy that we have Christian and Lynn.

      The reviews that didn’t make it last week will definitely be on this week – everything is just taking a little longer.

      Don’t forget to run your anti virus program to ensure that your computer is clean.

      • Oh, now I feel bad. I didn’t mean it just like that. 🙁 you guys are great, not just for the site. No worries, I checked my computer. But thanks again for reminding me. No more bad weekend for you (passes you a glass of Crown Royal) Cheers!

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