My Geocities website site is about to close.
I would like to thank all for visiting the site.

After putting in a lot of work and trying to find the right host
the new site is now open.

Thanks to DONNA, Lies & Gennie for the link.
I am trying Piczo.com

Piczo is a good site for people with no programming knowledge not so good for people with programming knowledge.

Like most things you can find ways around it.
most of my pages are now on the new site Plus some new pages

The site is not complete, the site has many tools and I still have not checked out.

Please take the time to have a look around
The link is on my profile page and also below.

 
Important Announcement

After careful consideration, Yahoo! has decided to close GeoCities later this year.

You can continue enjoying your GeoCities service until then — we just wanted you to let you know about the closure as soon as possible. We'll share more details this summer.

From Yahoo

Yahoo is to close its personal web hosting site GeoCities later this year.

In a statement, the firm says it will no longer be accepting new customers and will focus on helping "customers build new relationships online".

Yahoo bought GeoCities for $3.57bn at the height of the dotcom boom in 1999.

At its peak, GeoCities boasted millions of active accounts, but it has since fallen out of fashion, with users migrating to social networking sites.

Yahoo says that existing GeoCities accounts will remain live for now, although it stresses that users should start looking for alternative sites.

"You don't need to change your service today, but we encourage anyone interested in a full-featured web-hosting plan to consider upgrading to our award-winning Yahoo! Web Hosting service," the firm said in an online post.

The closure of GeoCities spells the end of Yahoo's free hosting, although other services - such as e-mail accounts - remain unaffected.

Rupert Goodwins, editor of the ZDNet website, said the closure of GeoCities was the end of an era.

"I think GeoCities was the first proof that you could have something really popular and still not make any money on the internet.

"It was a fascinating experiment in the pre-industrial era of the internet, but after the initial exuberance on what the web could do, it turned out to be more complicated than just giving them free hosting.

"You need to give users tools to actually do things and make things simple, one of the reasons sites like Facebook and MySpace are so popular," he said.

From news.bbc.co.uk

Sorry all its another warning.

A computer virus attacking Microsoft Windows has infected almost nine million machines and is spreading faster than ever before. Computer Worm Goes Out Of Control

Experts say the worm has "skyrocketed" in recent days.

It is sweeping through thousands of offices in the UK and has affected computers at the Ministry of Defence.

The virus - known variously as Conficker, Kido or Downadup - burrows deep into the operating system and tricks the machine into running the infected program.

Once the worm is running on the computer it automatically starts to download more malicious programs from hackers' websites, with devastating effects.

The majority of computers infected by the worm, which was first identified in October, are in Russia, China, Brazil and India. But the virus is now taking hold in the UK.

The worm has password cracking capabilities, often successful because company passwords sometimes match a predefined password list that it carries.

Eddy Williams, a security analyst with anti-virus firm Kaspersky Labs, said that a new strain of the worm was now causing additional problems.

Computer users are advised to ensure their anti-virus software, operating system and firewall is up to date, and that they have installed a Microsoft patch designed to combat the problem.

Experts have also warned the virus could spread by copying itself to USB memory sticks shared between computers, and urged users to use caution

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If your Blog Theme images are linked to bigoo website
and are not displaying this is because the site is down or closed.
see my help website for some new images.
the link is below.
I will add more as soon as I get the time.

Security experts are warning of a rising number of Valentine's Day spam messages and malware attacks.

Symantec and the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-Cert) issued advisories to users after a number of malicious spam messages were found to be using Valentine's Day themes as a lure.

US-Cert said that it had received reports of spam messages which contained links to malicious websites. The sites attempted to download an executable onto the user's system under the names 'youandme.exe' or 'onlyyou.exe'.

The group is advising users to avoid dangerous spam with basic security practices such as avoiding unsolicited links and keeping all system and security software updated.

Meanwhile, researchers at Symantec have already compiled a list of the most popular Valentine's Day spam headlines. According to researcher Dylan Morss, the list has thus far been dominated by male enhancement products and the lure of free shopping sprees.

Among the most popular subject lines were 'Show off your length for Valentine's' and 'You have been invited to partake in a shopping spree this month for Valentine's.'

"Holding the top three subject line spots is the male enhancement spam crowd who have really taken to this holiday and quickly adjusted their spiel to exploit it," wrote Morss. "Right behind them is the fake gift card gang, and then the replica watch gang."