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Around about 7 years ago I got interested in the internet due to my interest in photography. Prior to that the internet was just a source of pleasure “if you know what I mean”
Anyway it was around 7 years ago when I contacted a guy in India about starting my own photography website. I sent him some links from the internet that of other people’s websites and in return he sent me a Mickey mouse link to what my new website was going to look like. I was well impressed and decided to hire him to get the website live (I actually bought leicamm.com because I just bought a Leica MM).
Anyway I guess it took a week or so to figure out how to add photos and then it was full on, I would go out and shoot and post shoot and post. Internet security, virous or malware never crossed my mind and I just kept adding plugins updating without checking first etc etc.
About two years ago my website crashed and it cost me over 200 quid to get it back, at that time I was told to install yet another plugin to back up my website so that’s what I did and over the last 2 years I have had to go back a few days to a backup because the Whocommerse wasn’t compatible or one of the other plugins didn’t like one of my pictures.
Last week I got an email from WordPress saying that my site had been attacked and it needed my attention. So I tried to open my bebsite and I got a “your website is a security risk” or something to that effect and I needed to contact the administrator ( WTF. That’s me).
I no longer have the Indian guys contact details so I decided to message my website host and seek there help. I was talking with a guy called Andrew and he informed me that my website has been disabled due to a malware attack, he told me that it was outwitted there scope of work and recommend a few website security providers. I looked on the internet and decided to go with ABC as they have a FREE malware removal scan. I gave them my website details then they started emailing me asking for DNS and cpanel details and I didn’t have a clue what they were talking about. I told Jim that I was a roughneck and that he needed to talk to me like a roughneck not a IT geek.
Cut a long story short. Jim started blaming Andrew and Android was blaming Jim. Eventually Andrew messaged me and suggested that I deleted my old website and he would reinstall a new WordPress for me with the same domain. I hummed and hadded and decided that my old website was starting to look like sh!t and now was a good time to do a refresh and start a new website. I emailed Andrew and asked him to go ahead with the new install, whereupon he hit me with a bunch of disclaimers.......... 5 emails later my old website was gone and a new one was waiting for me to decide what theme I wanted. I searched the internet and decided on ABC as there theme is designed for photographers. It cost me $90 something bucks for there software and a promise of a email with the link to the download. It’s 8pm and I’m waiting, waiting’s and bloody waiting. No confirmation email from Paypal no download email from ABC. I went to bed p***ed off at 11pm. I got up at 4 am and still no email. I emailed them and told them in roughneck terms what I thought of there software and still no email.
Next morning I went to play golf and mist have restarted my iPhone 6 times to see if I would get there email. Google was warning me that there was something wrong with my email. I’m thinking the bastaed have now hacked my email. When I got home from golf I went online and tried to get email via google (no luck) then like a light switching on I decided to chat with the host of my website in the UK to see if there was a connection between deleting my website and me not receiving emails ( I must have called at least 6 friends and asked them to email me, no reply).
Andrew cane online and we started chatting, I was like what’s happened to my email where open he told me to wait... 10 minutes later he told me that when they deleted my website they didn’t redirect my domain name back to Google and that I needed to give him my DNS and MX details. What I gave him was a mouthful of xxxxxx.
After I calmed down he asked me to be patient again while he tried to fix the problem. 30 minutes later Andrew (bless him) had sorted my email issues and said I was going to go in 24 to 48 hours time. I’m like WTF. This can’t be happening.
Anyway about 2 hours later I got my first emails in two day and the first one was with my new theme login details.
Here we are 2 days later and I now have a new up and running website..............Im sure that there will be some glitches but at least this time I have security along with an SSl, DNS, MXS and all the bells and whistles
New website can be sean HERE
Neil
Anyway it was around 7 years ago when I contacted a guy in India about starting my own photography website. I sent him some links from the internet that of other people’s websites and in return he sent me a Mickey mouse link to what my new website was going to look like. I was well impressed and decided to hire him to get the website live (I actually bought leicamm.com because I just bought a Leica MM).
Anyway I guess it took a week or so to figure out how to add photos and then it was full on, I would go out and shoot and post shoot and post. Internet security, virous or malware never crossed my mind and I just kept adding plugins updating without checking first etc etc.
About two years ago my website crashed and it cost me over 200 quid to get it back, at that time I was told to install yet another plugin to back up my website so that’s what I did and over the last 2 years I have had to go back a few days to a backup because the Whocommerse wasn’t compatible or one of the other plugins didn’t like one of my pictures.
Last week I got an email from WordPress saying that my site had been attacked and it needed my attention. So I tried to open my bebsite and I got a “your website is a security risk” or something to that effect and I needed to contact the administrator ( WTF. That’s me).
I no longer have the Indian guys contact details so I decided to message my website host and seek there help. I was talking with a guy called Andrew and he informed me that my website has been disabled due to a malware attack, he told me that it was outwitted there scope of work and recommend a few website security providers. I looked on the internet and decided to go with ABC as they have a FREE malware removal scan. I gave them my website details then they started emailing me asking for DNS and cpanel details and I didn’t have a clue what they were talking about. I told Jim that I was a roughneck and that he needed to talk to me like a roughneck not a IT geek.
Cut a long story short. Jim started blaming Andrew and Android was blaming Jim. Eventually Andrew messaged me and suggested that I deleted my old website and he would reinstall a new WordPress for me with the same domain. I hummed and hadded and decided that my old website was starting to look like sh!t and now was a good time to do a refresh and start a new website. I emailed Andrew and asked him to go ahead with the new install, whereupon he hit me with a bunch of disclaimers.......... 5 emails later my old website was gone and a new one was waiting for me to decide what theme I wanted. I searched the internet and decided on ABC as there theme is designed for photographers. It cost me $90 something bucks for there software and a promise of a email with the link to the download. It’s 8pm and I’m waiting, waiting’s and bloody waiting. No confirmation email from Paypal no download email from ABC. I went to bed p***ed off at 11pm. I got up at 4 am and still no email. I emailed them and told them in roughneck terms what I thought of there software and still no email.
Next morning I went to play golf and mist have restarted my iPhone 6 times to see if I would get there email. Google was warning me that there was something wrong with my email. I’m thinking the bastaed have now hacked my email. When I got home from golf I went online and tried to get email via google (no luck) then like a light switching on I decided to chat with the host of my website in the UK to see if there was a connection between deleting my website and me not receiving emails ( I must have called at least 6 friends and asked them to email me, no reply).
Andrew cane online and we started chatting, I was like what’s happened to my email where open he told me to wait... 10 minutes later he told me that when they deleted my website they didn’t redirect my domain name back to Google and that I needed to give him my DNS and MX details. What I gave him was a mouthful of xxxxxx.
After I calmed down he asked me to be patient again while he tried to fix the problem. 30 minutes later Andrew (bless him) had sorted my email issues and said I was going to go in 24 to 48 hours time. I’m like WTF. This can’t be happening.
Anyway about 2 hours later I got my first emails in two day and the first one was with my new theme login details.
Here we are 2 days later and I now have a new up and running website..............Im sure that there will be some glitches but at least this time I have security along with an SSl, DNS, MXS and all the bells and whistles
New website can be sean HERE
Neil