I wrote three Genea-Musings blog posts on Friday, 14 May. They were all online at 3:30 p.m. PDT.
By 4 p.m., they were deleted by Blogger (a Google product) for some reason. I received an email from Blogger saying they had malware included in them. Really?
After some discussion on Facebook, I and others figured out that Blogger probably had a malware attack sometime today that infected many blog posts across the system. Trying to do anything - create a new post, edit a post, etc. - gave me a Red warning page that told me not to try to do anything to get past it.
I decided to let discretion be the better part of valor, so I sat back and waited. If this post survives the night, then everything will be OK.
What about my three blog posts - the usual 52Ancestors, Findmypast, News and Education posts? My hope is that they will return as Blogger fixes the problems. Feedly still has them in their feed, so I copied and pasted the text and images into a MSWord document just in case. It will take some time to format them if I have to rebuild them in Blogger.
UPDATE - 15 May, 7 a.m.:
Blogger sent emails this morning noting that they had reconsidered the deletions and restored the three blog posts to Draft. I just posted them again with their original post dates/times. They are:
* Findmypast Friday: Explore Brand New Military Records and Memorials
* Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Friday, 14 May 2021
Blogger did not indicate what happened here, but many bloggers - genealogy and otherwise - had the problem.
2 comments:
It’s still here - 5:30 am CDT
I saw two of your yesterday’s blog posts in Feedly and could read them. I shared one via Twitter, but when I checked the tweet, the post was missing.
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