RE: CTP Chat For June 3rd, 2021
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My biggest failure was giving up after a major setback. Years and years ago not long after ClickTrackProfit originally started. I had started my online business journey. I stared with PTC, traffic exchanges and then programs including ClickTrackProfit.
I had been working these for several months. Well on some of the popular traffic exchanges rotators started being used. Stupid me thought that traffic exchanges tested all sites before they allow them to be shown. Needless to say, I clicked on a site link that downloaded a virus. My protection software missed blocking the new virus from being installed on my computer. The whole hard drive was corrupted and could not be fixed. I ended up buying a new computer but never wanted to be in that situation again since I needed my computer for work purposes. So I never revisited any of those programs which I had been a member.
Fast forward to the present. After I retired, I was rearranging my office and cleaning out my file cabinets. I found my old records and email account I had for my old programs. I was curious if the google email account was still valid and if there were any emails in the account. To my surprise, my google email account was still valid. I had to create new password. There were over 25,000 emails in that account. I found that ClickTrackProfit and two other programs were still sending me emails.
I reinstated my ClickTrackProfit account and started over. I have new virus protection software. I blocks so much that I only see about 75% of the sites on the traffic exchanges. It blocks out all rotators and sites that do not have the https:/ This is fine with me as I can't afford to buy a new computer at this point in time.
I am very apprehensive about clicking sites out on the internet. I trust ClickTrackProfit to not steer me in the wrong direction. I love being on the hive platform as I feel safer from a virus standpoint.
I am stronger because of that failure and may be a little overly conservative because of it. But I am back and loving it so far.
Erring on the side of caution is not a bad thing, David and after what you went through it is totally understandable. Glad you were able to come back and join this community. I actually use the Microsoft installed virus software and haven't had any problems. Fingers crossed.
My computers are paramount to my success, so I have off-site backups, on-site backups, and some spare parts in the wings mostly RAM, SSD, Video Cards. I can't have a computer down situation for longer than a few hours otherwise I start losing money.
Back in 2016 I had just quit Walmart and was 100% self-employed and my Windows 10 tower went down for the count, plus my last backup was corrupt did not have offsite backups at the time. I did not have a lot of money for a replacement. Voltage spike took out the Power Supply, Motherboard, ram, and video card tested with unreliable results. Went to GoodWill Lucky enough to find a 2009 Mac Pro Tower, with a few upgrades I was back in business.
When your computer starts generating income for you it is time to invest in redundancies.
It seems completely reasonable that you would be leery after that experience.
I am glad you decided to try again. Staying secure is important. It is to bad that there are so many safelists and TE's that aren't secure yet.
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Wow that sure seems like a hard lesson to not click on random links. But yea security is definitely something everyone needs to pay attention to.