Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Website Hackers Are One Of The Lowest Forms of Life

I was debating whether or not to post this on this blog... which is mostly regarding my business, or should I post it on my personal blog ... bonitais.blogspot.com. Well, I decided I would post this on both of them. I'll copy and paste. It affected both my business and me personally so I guess it is o.k. Anyway, I am new at this. New at SEO, new at a business, new at blogging, new to Twitter, just new. Trying to get my skin care business Bonita Botanicals up and running and successful.

I study and buy all sorts of home study courses on how to optimize my website. So I set up a few Wordpress blogs through Wordpress Direct. Content is automatically updated regarding my topics such as skincare, fitness and health. Then I would post my own posts. O.k... maybe that was cheating but so many people do it! Well, little did I know, if you don't keep up with current versions it makes for an extremely vulnerable situation. I used my own hosting account so it was all tied in with my website. I had no idea... didn't even think of how it all ties in together.

So one day, I get an email.... my website was suspended. Shut down... some low life hacker used my website to send phishing emails out. I fixed it or so I thought, but then it happens again!! In talking with my hosting company, they told me how Wordpress in itself can be vulnerable to hackers and I had different blogs going at once. Not that Wordpress is a bad thing. So many people use it as e-commerce websites but I guess I just was unlucky!

But that's not all that happened. I deleted the blogs and started deleting all the files in my FTP account. Stupid me wasn't wearing my glasses... hit a wrong button and deleted ALL the files in my account! Now... my website is completely GONE!!

It's all better now. Thank God for back ups but I just want to say one thing about this whole experience which really had me on the verge of a breakdown. I am a new company. I don't have all kinds of money to rebuild a website and hire all these people to do this and that. I am trying really hard... overcoming all sorts of obstacles which of course are par for the course yet I refuse to give up! So, whoever hacked my website twice... you are one of the lowest forms of a human being that lived. But guess what... I survived. And so does everyone else you try to harm. Do you have nothing better to do than to try and hurt other people's hard work and scam innocent people? Do you not have a brain of your own so that you can go out and make a honest living?

Sorry... just had to get that off my chest. I guess I could blame myself for this. I guess I should have known ... wait ... I am not blaming myself ... website hackers are horrible human beings! Anyway, I set up new blogs on blogspot here. So... I had to start over again... no matter... like I said I NEVER give up.

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