[ShyloLove]

Yes we’re back! All updated!

I still have a lot to do. Franky, my internet SUCKS! It’s near dial up for frustrating. However, I have found myself a temporary office with super fast high speed…and for now it’s totally free! There are some draw backs. For instance, I work in my truck parked a little way away from a local hotel. 😆 😳 It’s a bit nerve wracking. The first time I did this was the night before last. I had become SO frustrated with dropping signals and issues and the failure to upload a single database file or any of the site files. I remembered seeing a sign on the local bar/hotel “HIGH SPEED INTERNET”. I looked at my mom, who was talking to my sister and said “That’s it, I’m going to the bar”. 😆 😆 But then I DID go the bar, I restored my database in under 5 minutes and files and such a couple hours later. NICE! There’s no telling how long it would have taken attempting to finish it at the house. 🙄

So anyhow, this is my new office for the moment, my CRV in the parking lot. :ugeek:

But thanks to the unnamed hotel, BoL is back online!

I’ll definitely need to figure something out soon with internet. 😐

Thanks Zingdad, agreed on all you said. 🙂 Poppy, thank you too and everyone for your encouragement. I guess I’ve seen this with BoT too being so popular, it gets attention. THoTH has to work really hard and be diligent to keep it secure and updated.

Thanks everyone, for sticking around through all the viruses and hackers showing us their…. love bugs. 👿

Viruses 😈 , we love you because you are God creatures. We acknowledge your presence, and integrate your presence as part of Om Light. 😀

PERFECT jamwolfsky!! Take THAT Virus, a bit of Om-Light! 😀

I better get back at it, only have so much time. 😉

Hugs & Loves,
Annu

[ShyloLove]

Just so you all know, LadyOruall asked to be demodded because of the virus. She didn’t have protection, and does now, however, she says her mom is too freaked to let her on Book of Light. She said she would want to come back to mod in January some time when she buys her own computer. SHEESH! 😐

Thought you’d like to know why she’s no longer listed as mod.

Love,
Mel

[ShyloLove]

Thank you so much for the support guys…. 😀

I just sent out another email. I’ll paste it here in case people didn’t get it. Then I don’t have to retype all that here to update you coz I got work to do! 😛

SUBJECT: Book-of-Light.com Site Maintenance and Malware Awareness

Message sent to you follows:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Hi Everyone,

I just wanted to update you all on the progress with the Site Maintenance
along with the virus cleaning. I’ve been receiving emails regarding the
malware that was on the site this past week, and in my tired haste this
morning, I forgot to mention that I found all instances and cleaned it!

YES, the malware has been removed from all parts of the site. It was
actually a server wide incident…so not just my site. It’s what is
referred to as “hacking”. The forums were the last to get it, so easiest
to clean. The Site Maintenance I was doing last night and today were both
to update the core software along with completely re-uploading all new and
scanned site files to be sure the virus is cleaned. Now I am also
rebuilding the database bit by bit, just to be sure that it’s gone. I’ll
also be taking more measures to help tighten up security…however, no
matter what I do, the fact remains that somebody, somewhere is right now
choosing to create more of the same malware to infect your PC with.

One must realize that this stuff affects the entire internet, not just a
few little sites. Some very large sites with abundant techies and millions
of members (and dollars) have had this exact website Trojan affect their
sites and users. It is a sad but consistent truth about today’s
internet…you WILL come across many many viruses, spyware, worms, malware,
dialers, etc on all different types of sites. Unfortunately, the scanners
can only detect the bug once it’s already been flying about the internet
doing it’s dirty work. This one happened to be an older, very benign
Trojan. However, once on your system is a pain to get off.

This is why it’s VERY IMPORTANT to have a “Web Shield” running. This
software blocks the malware and viruses from getting onto your computer.
If you would have had Avast running (or a similar Web Shield) you would NOT
have downloaded this Trojan to your computer and would have saved yourself
the frustration.

This brings me to the people who DID in fact get this virus and have
emailed me to let me know that they will never be logging back into Book of
Light again, because it took them hours to get the virus off their
systems…

GET THE FREE AVAST ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE! Then come back fearless!
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

Do me, yourself and your computer a favour and install some free software
to protect your system from these petty attempts at steering you away from
great sites like mine and many others….due to….right you guessed it
FEAR. Fear of silly malware and viruses (computer code) could actually
stop you from visiting Book of Light ever again? I don’t think so…. get
your butt back here!!

Dear new friends, if you got the virus, then you most likely do not have a
Web Shield installed or running on your system and this is a problem. As I
mentioned, these things are becoming more problematic online for PC users.
I know AVG is good too, but I’m not sure if it has all that Avast has? So
get it: http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html Install it, register
it, turn it on and COME BACK! It’s all you’ll ever need. Remove those
crappy ones you pay for (like Norton) and get the best free one. We miss
you already!

I don’t expect we’ll have another attack anytime soon, and for now, it is
completely clean, however, I am one person wearing many hats! It takes me
a bit longer to deal with this stuff then when big sites like Warner Bros
are hacked. They have hundreds of employees and big budgets to deal with
the problem….. over here there is me and whats in my pocket…..and there
are diapers to be changed and dinner to be made too, you know what I mean.
*winks*

So I appreciate your patience as I make Book of Light shiny and new again.
I guess this makes this rebuild Beta7. I basically have to remake the site
and import bits of the data at a time to restore all the information.
BETTER GET TO WORK!

The forums will remain open during the upgrades so I hope you’ll visit the
Comm-Unity during the site downtime. I’ll be popping in from time to time
so I’ll see you there and keep you posted. Please let me know if you have
questions or concerns about this through the forums, email or private
messages.

Big hugs and lotsa Love!
Annu / Melanie

PS: If you can, just get yourself a Mac! 😉

So there you have it, make sure you have a web shield. Did I mention to get a web shield? Do you have one yet? IS it working? 🙂

I am working on rebuilding the website and doing all the updates needed as well. I guess it’s time to be Beta7. Today is our one month anniversary of our grand opening 08-08-08 too! We’ve had 99 new members join in this past month. That’s pretty exciting! Happy Anniversary Book of Light! I guess you get to be New for your anniversary. 🙂

More big hugs and lotsa Love to you all!
Annu / Melanie

[ShyloLove]

Wow..some awesome sounding recipes happening here! I LOVE walnuts! Never had black walnuts…I’ve used black walnut husks for deworming animals…but didn’t realize you can eat the walnuts. Cool!

minifang, thanks so much for that fish recipe! I will definitely try it! You know your low carb too. It really does work, but when you start to add back carbs you have to do it SO slowly and never overdo it. You can actually pick one day a week to “cheat”, as long as you make sure you don’t do that the rest of the week. The thing about low carb, is that when you go off of it completely you always gain a whole lot of weight back right away. 🙁

I was just about to take the site down for maintenance…but wanted to document my new Guacamole recipe I came up with tonight. It was fantastic! I was inspired because for dinner tonight we had BBQ’d chicken breast on green beans with cream cheese on top and spices like Marjoram, Thyme, Mineral Salt, Pepper, Tarragon and a couple onions chunky chopped all in a foil pack. It only takes about 20 minutes at 500F to cook the chicken perfectly on the BBQ. We eat this a lot with various veggies like zucchini, onions, tomatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, various cheeses, butter and ALWAYS Marjoram spice. It’s perfect for veggies! So, anyhow, we had a bunch of ripe Avocados we needed to eat up, so I decided to make my Guacamole recipe a little differently to plop on top of the chicken. This is an ultra low carb dish, lucky me!

Annu’s Sorta Spicy Creamy Guacamole

2 Ripe Avocados peeled, chopped and mixed with a fork (you want it a bit chunky)
8 Squirts of Lime Juice (or lemon juice) (about 2-3 tsps)
7 Squirts of Louisiana Hot Sauce (lightly spicy, add more the spicier you want it) (about 1-2 tsps)
1 Roma Tomato chopped finely
1/2 Small white onion chopped finely
1 Teaspoon Cumin (more if you like)
1/2 Teaspoon Mineral Salt (or to taste)
1/2 Teaspoon Black Pepper (or to taste)
1 small clove garlic
1 Teaspoon Parsley
3 heaping TBSP Sour Cream
1 heaping TBSP Real Mayonnaise

Mix it up real good with a fork (so its still chunky) in a medium sized bowl and eat however you like! Great as a dip for tortillas, that’s the traditional way to eat it, with salsa and sour cream… or, as I eat it, over BBQ’d chicken breast or other meats if you like. Maybe other chips, on toast, in a sandwich or wrap or veggies …whatever suits your fancy…. the stuff is SOOOOOOO good!

I hope you enjoy!

Now going to get to work on updating the site. 😀

Love,
Annu

[ShyloLove]

Ok, I have managed to spend several hours finding and removing this virus from various parts of the site. Dang Illuminati! 😆 What a pain in the butt! I think I have found all instances of it now and removed it. I have also added extra security features to block this. However, I must do a core update on my site software as there is a security warning for just this type of thing. The site will be down for maintenance from approximately 2pm MST until I get the core updated. With my slow internet this can take quite a while. Once we’re updated, the security holes allowing this minor hacking and malware insertion should completely cease.

Until then, PLEASE get yourself a Web Shield. This is NOT a spyware scanner or virus scanner, but a Website scanner. It’s a bit different and runs in real time. That way, if any site you visit has been hacked in this manner, (apparently this has happened on sites like NASA and other high profile sites too) you will be warned and can stop the connection before the virus hits your computer, making it totally ineffective. I’ve heard users tell me they took hours to clean this little bugger off their systems…however, this means you do NOT have a Web Shield blocking streaming internet viruses and chances are you may have some on your system already due to that security opening on your PC. Why not stop it before it gets there instead! 😉

The free virus scanner from Avast is one of the best ones out there and it includes ALL real time scanners that a PC user could possibly ever need, including the web shield and a network shield. http://www.avast.com Once registered (completely free) you need only re-register once per year to keep it active.

I offer my sincere apologies for this issue. I know I am not alone in having problems of this nature. It’s really sad that people out there find it necessary to create malware and spread their diseases all over the internet. I guess we are getting some attention now with Google…so I will need to be diligent in keeping up security on this site. Please do inform me if your scanners pick anything up in the next couple hours. I have manually found and cleaned this up, however, the security hole is open until the updates later today so it is possible it could come back before I do the update. Get that web shield!!!

Thank you for your patience! Also, if anyone knows a Drupal and PHP programmer who would like to donate time to Book of Light and help me out with technical stuff, please send them my way! I could really use some help as we grow and get more attention.

Love & Hugs,
Annu

[ShyloLove]

Wonderful opalescent! Thanks so much for all your work! This is a great addition to the book.

Love,
Annu

[ShyloLove]

Thanks minifang! These look great! I’ll add them to the recipe database soon.

So now, in your repertoire, do you have any low carb recipes?? I’m still losing pregnancy weight…and it’s actually just started falling off of me on this diet. (thank goodness!!) I’ve lost nearly 25 lbs in less then 3 months on this diet, so I intend on staying on it for awhile. To make things more difficult, I’ve stopped eating mammals and only eat poultry and fish/seafood for meat. I eat dairy too, eggs, cheese, cream, etc. So? Got anything tasty, full of protein and whole fats for me in the ‘ol recipe box???

Love!
Annu

[ShyloLove]

Glad you found that. 🙂

It’s a pretty featureless chatroom, and it is not integrated with the site in any way, just a stand alone thing. To make things easier, maybe everyone should register with their site username so we know who you are in there! Eventually, we’ll have a full featured chat room…but I need to get the rest of the site working well first!

Hugs,
Annu

[ShyloLove]

Well, now you should have the ability to add events…however, there is currently no calendar associated with that. I had planned on installing one, but haven’t yet! SO for now, all events are just as you post them. You will need to post times and dates in your event posting. Once I add the calendar software that will change, but for now it’s not available.

Let me know if you have any issues with that!

Love,
Annu

[ShyloLove]

Isn’t he the miracle man! I think he has realized this. He’s said as much.

Yes, opalescent, that pile of metal was a Ford Escape! 😯

GTT, so what’s your estimate? 😆 ha ha

quietsound, you sure seem to be right. He has said he is realizing what is important in his life and that it seems obvious that he was given a second chance at life. He is even having memories of before the accident, where he even thinks he pulled over because he had a premonition and knew he was going to crash…but then decided to keep driving. He says he has no memory of a large part of the end of the drive before the accident…until he remembered maybe pulling over…and knowing in advance that he was going to crash. Crazy stuff indeed! 😀

[ShyloLove]

Hmmm…let me look into this for you mia. Might be a permissions problem. I will have to add the ability for you to add Events and will do that soon.

Thanks!
Love,
Annu

[ShyloLove]

Me again…there’s also Alusa (Animal_Gurl) who offered to be a mod.

I guess I want to know the following from the main peeps (opalescent, Zingdad and LadyOruall)

Where would you like to moderate? What sections or areas? I’d like to clean up the moderators and not have us all modding all forums. So let me know when you all can please. 😀

Thanks & BIG HUGS!!

Love,
Mel

[ShyloLove]

You mean the home page of the forums or the main site home page? Let me know so I can look for it and clean it! 😀

[ShyloLove]

So great to meet you all!

Will, I think you are totally correct…we certainly seem to have an incredible web of light happening here traversing the planet. WONDERFUL!! 😀

Big hugs and love to you all,
Annu

[ShyloLove]

Well that’s great news! Please do let me know if your scanner picks this annoying little buggie up!

Thanks so much for letting me know!

Love,
Annu

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