Red Box of Death

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

I am extremely busy with my small architectural project and I did not have time for this. Apparently the "Red Box" of death is making another round through the blogosphere. I want you to know I will continue to follow everyone but ....

Until this situation has corrected its self I have removed the blog roll widget from my blog. It's not like I get a ton of comments anyway but to have my page display as if I have cooties is just down right wrong. I've never had cooties, fleas maybe but never cooties.

I must now return to pulling my hair out, one hair at a time. :)

PEACE...

28 comments:

Mary@GigglesandGuns said,: Removing the roll seems to have cured the problem.

Sorry about your fleas ;o)

Later.
Jayne said,: Hackers. Meh. Hope it's all cleaned up soon, Jules. It always happens when you're the busiest, don't it?! ;)
Larri said,: Holy frijoles, Jules! Hadn't heard of it, and now I'm scared. Don't want to google it, cause I don't want the cooties. How do you prevent it?

Thanks for sharing. Happy Wednesday! ☺ PS...Love you and your blog even without the blog roll. ☺
Angela said,: I know EXACTLY what you're talking about. There's nothing more infuriating than having people not come to your webpage because someone you've linked to has had their website hacked.
RHYTHM AND RHYME said,: I have never heard of this before. Is others getting this red box? or is this some sort of joke.

Yvonne.
Arlee Bird said,: I love having my blogroll on my page because then I can see when favorite blogs have posted. But now I'm thinking I should remove it all. I've been already removing certain blogs. I'm seeing this malware crap all over the place lately. Is it a Google plot?
This is so down heartening.

Lee
Tossing It Out
Samantha Vérant said,: WHAT in the WORLD is the red box of death? Should I be scared???
Alex J. Cavanaugh said,: I haven't seen the red box, but I did get a heads up that a link in my side bar linked to a blog with malware and have since removed that blog. Hate to remove the whole thing - it would take me a whole day to put it back!
Julie Flanders said,: I haven't seen the red box before, but it seems there are just constant problems now. I was just having a temper tantrum as I can't get my reader to load and can't see the blogs I'm following. This whole situation has become very frustrating.
Karen Lange said,: Sorry to hear of your troubles, Jules! :) Wish you the best with the project.
Anonymoussaid,: Al lot of people have been having problems with Blogger for various reasons, myself included. Hope this fixes what's ailing you.

And are you sure that Red Box of Death isn't really a harlmess glob of cherry jello?
Summer Ross said,: I take it something was wrong with your blogroll. Well At least you are still blogging, and that's what I look forward to :)
Tammy said,: I've never heard of this, either, and I too am scared. Especially since fleas love me.
Golden Eagle said,: I usually bypass the malware warnings if it tells me the blog I'm trying to visit only has content affiliated with a website, since it's often just a link--but it's worrying to see all the warnings pop up.
Velvet Over Steel said,: I'm so sorry to hear that! I didn't know that blog rolls can cause the hacker problem to spread. Darn and I've been hacked before. Sad that some people (hackers) can find positive things to do with their skills, brains and waking hours!

Take care, Jules, & good luck with your project!!
Big Hug,
Coreen XO
Manzanita said,: I'm so sorry. Don't tell me we'll all have to remove our blog rolls just because some terrible people want to put mischief into our lives. And boy, do I understand about doing extras when you already are on over-load. Love and peace
Manzanita@Wannabuyaduck
Flying high in the sky.... said,: :) hope your project goes off well ... take care...
Unknown said,: Sorry to have been part of your blah. My site seems to be fine now. I worked the google magic to remove the monsters.
Julie Flanders said,: Hi Jules,

Just wanted to let you know I have an award for you at my blog whenever you are able to stop by. I hope some of your stress has abated, and you have a relaxing weekend ahead. Take care!
Katie Gates said,: Good luck with the workload, Jules. And I hope the blogosphere is cootie-free when you return. These cyber-glitches always come at the most inopportune times, don't they?
Li said,: Sooooo annoying.I just revamped my blogroll; I desperately want to keep it, but now thinking twice. So sick of malware crap.

On the plus side, I solved a few problems by switching to Firefox.
Ella said,: Blogger seems to be having a lot of issues of late. Don't lose anymore hair over this! I know you are busy; hang in there good friend! xXx
nutschell said,: the red box of death sounds....deadly! I haven't been blog hopping lately so I have no idea what this is, but Ihope you did get to fix it!
nutschell
www.thewritingnut.com
Personalized Sketches and Sentiments said,: hm....please do tell...what is this red box? I had not heard of this til now. I am stopping by through Kathie's Blog Tour...I am running behind, but happy to stop and say hello!

Blessings & Aloha!
Green Monkey said,: any better yet? I remember you mentioned you had a problem with blogger. very frustrating! Its been so long since I added a widget that I probably don't remember how to do it. okay....time to read more of you. I'm wayyyyyy behind!
N. R. Williams said,: Hi Jules.
I'm back with great internet service at last. I sat down as soon as the instillation guy was done. I had one of those blog rolls last spring and it froze my blog up big time.
Nancy
N. R. Williams, The Treasures of Carmelidrium
Corine Moore said,: ..so sad. I hope it all gets cleared up soon!
Nezzy (Cow Patty Surprise) said,: Oh sweetie, I dropped out for the summer and am not aware of the blog~cooties you speak of. I'm so sorry they've invaded your space. Shall we call the hunka'~hunka' Orkin man??? Heeehehehe!

God bless ya and have a most beautiful day! :o)