Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Blog Hijacked!

My franchise blog was hijacked! I woke up this morning and wandered over to the computer for a look at Jan Melara Franchise Coach. Oddly, the computer was off, even though I had left it on. I switched it back on and waited forever for it to reboot. Finally, I was able to click on the link to the blog. The familiar page showed up and then, within seconds, was replaced by another page. I blinked a couple of times and clicked on the link again, only to be rerouted--to yet another page this time.

I called my husband, the resident IT expert, and we frantically searched the web for information on blog redirection and hijacking. As I had suspected, our search led us to believe one of my newish gadgets was to blame. It turned out to be one called "How to Cook Anything."

I removed the code and the redirection stopped. Thank goodness we found the problem! However, in the process, we lost the link list for this blog. I've replaced it and repopulated with what I hope are useful links, but I may have left out some that were there before the accident.

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