ericurmudgeon Posted August 1, 2017 Report Share Posted August 1, 2017 Welcome back! It was a pretty frustrating few days while the board was down. Presume it was some sort of hack but whatever it was, glad to be "connected" again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mainecoons Posted August 1, 2017 Report Share Posted August 1, 2017 What happened was some site blocker site kicked in and blocked everyone from this board. Maybe CG can explain it. I did notify Admin on Saturday but it was apparently not easy to sort out. Anyway, welcome back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gringohombre Posted August 1, 2017 Report Share Posted August 1, 2017 I thought it was some kind of ransomware attack. Hope that you did not have to pay. This happened to me and they were wanting US$2500 or they said they would wipe out everything from my computer where basically my life and business lives. Thankfully I had everything saved on an external hard drive so we spent a couple of days reformatting and reinstalling everything. Now all is back to normal. BACKUP...BACKUP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComputerGuy Posted August 2, 2017 Report Share Posted August 2, 2017 From the message that was displayed, I know it was a legitimate security tool that perhaps just went haywire. Since it listed IP addresses (and I did not check mine), it appeared to be blocking anyone that tried to get in, as opposed to shutting down the servers at that end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaykay Posted August 2, 2017 Report Share Posted August 2, 2017 Well, I feel better. I had no idea everybody was affected. Plus, if you want to find what the heck you did, who exactly do you call? This is exactly what happens when you lose power. If EVERYBODY is without power, then I don't feel as bad. I was running thru my last two posts wondering how I got in trouble by saying the "transition team" for Anitas was destroying any chance to save the place and a post saying the Lake was really rising fast. I was leaning in the direction of the Lake post. Hard to believe anybody would defend the "Transition Team". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roberta Strand Posted August 2, 2017 Report Share Posted August 2, 2017 I thought I had said something wrong and just I was being blocked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComputerGuy Posted August 2, 2017 Report Share Posted August 2, 2017 Considering this is your very first post as Roberta Strand, I guess we are wondering what your previous handle was, which would help us determine if you might have been deemed worthy of being blocked... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pappysmarket Posted August 2, 2017 Report Share Posted August 2, 2017 Advice from one who knows the ropes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RVGRINGO Posted August 2, 2017 Report Share Posted August 2, 2017 Since there seems to be no more connection to Chapala Realty listings, or Ojo del Lago, I was convinced that the owners had abandoned this site and maybe even sold it. Is that the case? I could not help but also notice that Chapala Realty now has a new site, just started coincidentally in July, with a different address: cb.chapala.com, and without any connection to this new format, or to real estate at all. I found that by searching for the usual real estate listings. When they did not come up, I found the changes with a Google search. I still think there may be more to the story of the “outage“. Was there a “divorce“? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johanson Posted August 2, 2017 Report Share Posted August 2, 2017 If you go to the master webpage, www.chapala.com you will see three major areas one which is http://cb.chapala.com/, one which is http://www.chapala.com/elojo/ and the final one which is http://www.chapala.com/wwwboard/webboard.html They have not split up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ned small Posted August 2, 2017 Report Share Posted August 2, 2017 24 minutes ago, pappysmarket said: Advice from one who knows the ropes. And more handles than Zaza Gabor had husbands Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moderator-2 Posted August 2, 2017 Report Share Posted August 2, 2017 It does appear the link back from here to the main site got lost in the shuffle of software changes, I will call their attention to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pappysmarket Posted August 2, 2017 Report Share Posted August 2, 2017 1 minute ago, ned small said: And more handles than Zaza Gabor had husbands Another piece of expert advice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moderator-2 Posted August 2, 2017 Report Share Posted August 2, 2017 Not even close. Zsa Zsa had 9 husbands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RVGRINGO Posted August 2, 2017 Report Share Posted August 2, 2017 Hmmmm. www.chapala.com is my bookmarked homepage, and opens automatically. In looking at it, the webboard is also part of the address. Yes, the loss of the old links did make me wonder if there had been a “divorce“. Please let us know when things are back to normal..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComputerGuy Posted August 2, 2017 Report Share Posted August 2, 2017 Not sure I get what is being discussed. if you go to Chapala.com, there is a link to this site, as usual. And when you follow that link, there is an advertisement for Coldwell Banker in the right margin, with all the advertisers from Ojo. And this webboard address is a sub-address of chapala.com, clearly visible in the address bar at the top of your browser. What has changed...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moderator-2 Posted August 2, 2017 Report Share Posted August 2, 2017 True but there used to be a link on this web board to go back to the Chapala dot com main page. That is what is missing. I sent them an email about it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ned small Posted August 2, 2017 Report Share Posted August 2, 2017 48 minutes ago, betty7 said: 4 husbands here. many more on TOB. unfortunatly they were all named "istphobe". Have you forgotten "bronco" on yet another board which may or may not include other long lost "husbands" of yours as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickS Posted August 2, 2017 Report Share Posted August 2, 2017 Right.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pappysmarket Posted August 2, 2017 Report Share Posted August 2, 2017 1 hour ago, betty7 said: 4 husbands here. many more on TOB. unfortunatly they were all named "istphobe". I thought they were all Henry and there were 8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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