Fear & Loathing Last Week

My tribulations from last week was best described by one E.W. McCasey, who writes from California, saying: “You will soon be out of a job, penniless, homeless, and meagerly supported by a collection of desperate women, queers, drunks, and bums of every description if you don’t get your website fixed soon. I smell doom and I’m certain it’s coming from your direction. Good luck with that.”

A strange life, at best. Monday night, I burned my forearm badly while working on my Riviera. I went inside to grab some ice and decided to check my emails and server status while stationary. That was the beginning of it all… The next week was spent laboring over a key board and nursing the urge to drown it all out with a long drive through the country side. You’ll be glad to know, however, that I never wavered. I never succumbed to the urge to just give it all to the ghost. Instead, I fought like hell.

Well, sort of… I hired a “cleaner” known as “the wolf” who came in and took care of the beasts that had targeted a number of my websites with a viscous hack. If you were around and you were using that miserable browser known as Internet Explorer, you most likely noticed a number of pop ups on The Jalopy Journal promising to take care of that limp pecker of yours. All you had to do was click. On last report, the hacker made over $5000 off of us. All of it was blood money. My money.

But it’s over now. You need not worry about solving your erectile dysfunction problems while browsing my websites – this week anyhow. And it’s important to note, that none of your personal information stored on our servers was ever in jeopardy. In fact, the forum was never hacked – just the innocent pages of The Jalopy Journal.

There is, however, one lingering side effect. After a week of the previously described pop ups, McAfee has added us to their “Danger” list. So, if you are using their SiteAdvisor software you might still be getting warnings. We’ve submitted an excuse to McAfee and claimed our innocence, but you can get our backs as well by submitting us as a clean site here:

http://www.siteadvisor.com/userfeedback.html

And that’s that. For now. I’m fairly confident that I have avoided certain doom once again. Sorry to disappoint Mr. McCasey.

UPDATE: Are you still experiencing pop ups and all together shitiness while browsing jalopyjournal.com? You need to clear your cache. Just follow these directions.

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And just so I don’t leave you without something to think about today, check out this early racing footage: