Week V Voting
*sigh* It's been a rough weekend >.<
As mentioned I had to go into work on my Saturday off to help deal with the issue at hand, took longer than expected too... what I didn't expect was to come home to my computer late that night, begin working on my icontests only to have my browser and all programs suddenly close down, while something called 'Spyware Protector' open up on its own, beginning to 'scan my files' and 'alert me of various threats' to my computer. Needless to say it was suspicious, but still scary since I lost access to everything, including Task Manager.
Fortunately I had access to my parents computer and with some research was able to find out more about this virus installed rogue program, that is designed to scam users into 'activating' by paying for a fake protection service/product by locking down access to the computer, disabling its competition and generating made-up warnings. Bleh! Long story short, with my dad's help we were able to get around it and launch a counter-attack with McAfee's Stinger, but it took a while to complete the scan and find all the hidden plus infected files.
Anyway, a few different programs and multiple scans/searches later, it appears my computer is finally back to normal. Yay! But where does that leave us? Here's what I am going to do: I'm posting voting now and it will run on an adjusted schedule until Tuesday morning. I will put up the new submission posts probably on Monday, but the deadline will fall next Friday instead so that we can get back on track. My apolgoies for all the delays, they couldn't be avoided I'm afraid and my focus was elsewhere (aka my poor baby *hugs computer*) so I neglected to check in with another update ;-;
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We received 5 vivid icons for Week V, thanks to everyone that was able to submit! Please vote for your three favourite icons in order of preference (1st, 2nd, 3rd choice) and remember not to vote for yourself or break any other rules.
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01. Metal Gear Ac!d 2 // V is for Venus
02. Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep // V is for Ventus & Vanitas
03. King of Fighters // V is for Vanessa
04. Disgaea: Hour of Darkness // V is for Vyers
05. Valkyrie Profile Lenneth // V is for Valkyrie
You have until 10:00 AM PM EST on Tuesday, May 3rd to cast your vote and no late votes will be accepted afterwards unless an official extension is announced, so please vote by then. A post will be made roughly twelve hours before this if we do not have enough votes, so please participate if you are able as every last vote does make a huge difference.
This week's challenge will be posted later, hopefully on Monday, and run until next Friday.
As mentioned I had to go into work on my Saturday off to help deal with the issue at hand, took longer than expected too... what I didn't expect was to come home to my computer late that night, begin working on my icontests only to have my browser and all programs suddenly close down, while something called 'Spyware Protector' open up on its own, beginning to 'scan my files' and 'alert me of various threats' to my computer. Needless to say it was suspicious, but still scary since I lost access to everything, including Task Manager.
Fortunately I had access to my parents computer and with some research was able to find out more about this virus installed rogue program, that is designed to scam users into 'activating' by paying for a fake protection service/product by locking down access to the computer, disabling its competition and generating made-up warnings. Bleh! Long story short, with my dad's help we were able to get around it and launch a counter-attack with McAfee's Stinger, but it took a while to complete the scan and find all the hidden plus infected files.
Anyway, a few different programs and multiple scans/searches later, it appears my computer is finally back to normal. Yay! But where does that leave us? Here's what I am going to do: I'm posting voting now and it will run on an adjusted schedule until Tuesday morning. I will put up the new submission posts probably on Monday, but the deadline will fall next Friday instead so that we can get back on track. My apolgoies for all the delays, they couldn't be avoided I'm afraid and my focus was elsewhere (aka my poor baby *hugs computer*) so I neglected to check in with another update ;-;
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We received 5 vivid icons for Week V, thanks to everyone that was able to submit! Please vote for your three favourite icons in order of preference (1st, 2nd, 3rd choice) and remember not to vote for yourself or break any other rules.
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01. Metal Gear Ac!d 2 // V is for Venus
02. Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep // V is for Ventus & Vanitas
03. King of Fighters // V is for Vanessa
04. Disgaea: Hour of Darkness // V is for Vyers
05. Valkyrie Profile Lenneth // V is for Valkyrie
You have until 10:00 AM PM EST on Tuesday, May 3rd to cast your vote and no late votes will be accepted afterwards unless an official extension is announced, so please vote by then. A post will be made roughly twelve hours before this if we do not have enough votes, so please participate if you are able as every last vote does make a huge difference.
This week's challenge will be posted later, hopefully on Monday, and run until next Friday.