Unfortunately, LVI has been hacked quite seriously, :( so for anybody on my flist who visits there, please do NOT try to go to the forum board or main site until we get this cleaned up. If you've already been, be sure to run your full arsenal of anti-virus and anti-malware programs to make sure this blankin' thing didn't hit you with anything. >:[

I was on my mom's computer when I decided to check in this morning and her Norton caught a Malicious Tootkit trying to get in. O_O I took it down and immediately cleared all the temp files, ran a Norton quick scan and both AdAware and Spybot scans. Everything came back okay, so hopefully no damage was done.

Anyway, Warren is on it and we'll let you guys know when it's safe to come back. So very sorry for the inconvenience and hopefully this blankity-blankin' hacker won't have managed to do any damage to anybody! :(

ETA: This is now night for me and the weird header code is still coming up when I just checked the site a bit ago (I quickly closed the tab and none of the security programs went off, so hopefully Warren has got the worst of it out already). But just to be safe, I'd say be very wary of going back to LVI until we're sure it's clean again. So sorry for the inconvenience!

*thwaps all hackers with a thousand and one rubber chickens* >:[

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Okay, this has NOT been my year for a smoothly running computer and Internet. >:[ I've been having trouble losing connection the past few days but last night everything just went off. I thought my router had gone out so I got a new one. Which couldn't set up because it "couldn't acquire network status." :S So I tried to hook my old one up. Same message. *sigh* Turns out that it's my ISP who's having "major region-wide issues." *tears out hair* There's no idea when they'll get it fixed. So right now I'm plugged directly into the modem and I have some spotty connection. :S

I just mainly wanted to let everybody know where I've disappeared to and why I've stopped answering comments and where the last chapter of "Balancing Act" went. :S At least I can finish it up even without the Internet but I obviously can't have it beta'd unless I, you know, want to send it by snail-mail. :S J/K (mostly). ;)

So I'll be around as much as possible! Wish me (well, technically, wish my ISP ;) ) luck in getting things working again! *hugs you all* ♥!

Yay, I'm on the Internet again!!!!! *jumps for joy* After 2 days of huge ol' computer problems, I'm finally (cautiously O_O ;) ) back up and running again!

Anyway, needless to say I'm waaaaay behind in everything. I'm going to work on catching up on my comments, then on seeing what all is up with you guys! *clings to Internet* Don't ever leave me again!!! ;) You know, it sucks to just not be able to get onto the Internet or to not have your computer working right, but it MASSIVELY sucks when you have to spend days just trying one fix after another and nothing seems to want to work the way it's supposed to! o_O :(

So here's how it all happened...( Click for the epic story! ;) )

Oh man, I really hope I'm not coming down with the flu again 'cause I felt like yuck all day today. :( So I got very little done on "Balancing Act" and just mainly sort of hung out watching "Ashes to Ashes" (still loving it ♥! ) and feeling just this side of miserable (kinda like I was on the outskirts of Miserable Proper in the suburb of Slightly Wretched ;) ).

Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day! I've got Chapter 5 worked out in my head now (I'd been a bit stuck on a plot point and the solution finally popped to mind today, yay!) so it's just a matter of getting it jotted down, cleaned up and sent off to be beta'ed.

And now, it's off to bed with me, hopefully to wake up feeling like I've exited Slightly Wretched and have Miserable Proper firmly in my rear view mirror as I head back to the Land of the Living! ;)

At least my ability to ride weird metaphors into the ground seems to have survived unscathed... ;)

Hope you're all doing well! *hugs* ♥!

( *gulp* O_O )

Welp, back to work, then! Hope you guys are having a great night! LJ seems a little quiet tonight, even the comms aren't moving very fast. Maybe a lot of people are away or something? Who knows? ;) Nighty-night! *big hugs!* ♥♥♥!!!