I feel discombobulated this morning. My email had been hacked and my entire list of contacts have been receiving weird emails from "me" (one even at 3 a.m. this morning). So I decided to close my account (which I have had forever), thinking that would solve all my problems. I'm so naive. I don't know if it will solve the hacking problem, that remains to be seen. But when I went to sign into my blog this morning, I had difficulty. I got flustered and even almost cried because I thought I would be lost to my blogging friends forever. How sad that would be :(
Obviously, I'm not very good technologically. You could even say that I'm techno-challenged - to the nth degree. So, this morning when I tried to sign into my blog I used my new email account and it wouldn't work. I made my blog with my old email account, so I guess I still have to sign into my blog using my old email account. I am going to be one confused puppy for a long, long time . . .
Random thoughts of a girl who used to try to fit in the box. Then I realized that boxes are stupid. Except this box, the one above. It's really pretty.
Woa on the hacking thing. : ( Not sure why ppl like to do that to others. : ( Ppl on Facebook are having problems like that too. I was just wondering if there is a something there that allows you to change your info- email and password change?
ReplyDeleteWish I knew :) I even tried to find how to email a question to blogspot but couldn't even find that.
DeleteJudy, same here, two weeks ago, really throwing me off technologically, as well as everything else. Same problem accessing my blog, so I used the "history" icon, to come in the back way. That's where I'm at. No email account, and no way to make it right. A little bit of knowledge can be oh so deadly...
ReplyDeleteThat gives me a little hope, Mark, that I'm not TOTALLY stupid :)
DeleteI found something. In the upper corner it says account settings. There I found where you can change your password and account info.
ReplyDeleteGo to where you see your icon and your name and click that little arrow. It will drop down and say account settings. Click that and at the very top you can click and change it. : )
ReplyDeleteA pox on your hacker. Even if it was just a prank. Even if it was "innocent". It's a whole lot more than just changing an e-mail. I'd be lost for a long time. Pox, pox, pox!
ReplyDeleteHey Judy, you can do a few things other than completely delete your account. First you can save all your contacts somewhere else, like all the e-mail addresses and then delete your contacts minus lets say your husbands or your new one so you can see if the spams have stopped, that way they can't send your contacts weird e-mails. Then change your password. Make it really really strong. (You can always change it again to something easier to remember later) Then, use a malware scanner such as http://download.cnet.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html < that one, to scan your computer for those icky malware that are probably sending out the spam emails. (You have antivirus correct?)
ReplyDeleteI hope this helps. If you need anything just ask, I went through this a couple of months ago, and am now with my ancient email account but spam free. (:
Larissa, my you are smart! ha! I did what you said, I got rid of my contacts, changed my password and, yes, we have antivirus. Hopefully that will do it!
DeleteThat would discombobulate me, too! Good luck getting it fixed!
ReplyDeleteSomeone tried to hack my Facebook a few months ago. Luckily Facebook caught it, but still had me change my password.
ReplyDeleteI changed my email on here a few weeks ago. Yahoo was irritating me. I had to change it on blogger and on my whole google account. It's all good.
Stupid technology - I wouldn't know where to start. i would probably just throw the whole thing out and go back to reading my book. Go silent. But that is me and I am easily frustrated and annoyed with technology. And life.
ReplyDeleteWe had the same problem a few months ago. Our list of contacts were hit hard by mega spammers. We changed our password and it stopped. Advice from our internet provider....Thank goodness it was that easy!
ReplyDeleteOh My, what a pain, it should be easy to change your settings once you get in...
ReplyDeleteI am lost totally!! Big help I am....you had to close/delete your old email account!! That sounds Drastic!!! I would be at a loss. Does that mean you have lost all your old emails. You sound very calm to me... I would have been in tears-big fat wet ones. It sounds like you have taken care of your problem. I did not get any weird emails from you... and I think we have corresponded via email. I am glad you were able to post this - that way we know if you disappear for a while what happened. Good luck with it all!!
ReplyDeleteSo if any of you DO get strange emails that say they're from me - they're not :). I'm a little bit weird, but I don't send random emails out!
ReplyDeleteSorry you got hacked-- I need to close out an old email account of mine and I know this will happen to me when I do it!
ReplyDeleteDiscombobulate is one of my favorite words, though.
glad you had so many interesting comments and some very useful ones.. I am afraid I can not add anything worthwhile except letting you know that I would not like to be hacked and that I hope you get rid of your troubles in a jiffy
ReplyDeletefor a non english language native like me;. the word 'discombobulated' sounds awesome !! (my husband, native english speaker, uses it regularly enough... maybe referring to his wife ? ;) )
All you needed to do was change your password ..
ReplyDeleteSounds easy enough, Daryl, but didn't work with just a password change. Darn.
DeleteAre you still dealing with this? I have a couple of suggestions (don't I always? ;) )
ReplyDelete1) Backup your blog (I wrote a post about that a while back.) That way, if the worst happens, you will at least have a copy to move elsewhere.
2) You can assign your new email/account to this blog and remove the old one's connection to it. - Don't know if that'd confuse things more or make it easier. If you'd like to do that, let me know.