Feb 24 2010
Posted by Lynn M. as Great Marketing Tools, List Building, Newly Launched, Notes From Lynn, Online Marketing, Traffic Exchange Live
So, there should have been a post with an update here earlier today. Instead, I just spent several hours of my post-Traffic Exchange Live time today cleaning a particularly nasty virus off my computer (don’t worry, I know where/how it weaseled its way in and it wasn’t from anything related to traffic exchanges, thank goodness).
So I can’t stress enough – keep your anti-virus & whatever other security stuff you use updated and current, folks! I really don’t want to go into the specifics of this one here and give the cretins who write these things any fodder for more evil hijinks (but I will at TE Live tomorrow), but I’m a pretty experienced techgeekchick and this one did some scary stuff I’ve never seen one do before and took me a long time to disinfect. Ugh.
After having been previously happy with AVG until it started missing some stuff, Tim Linden was talking one day about how he basically relies on Avast and never has a problem, so I figured that if Mr. Tech Expert Who Could Probably Be Really Dangerous If He Wasn’t A Good Guy relies on that, it should be good enough for moi. I pretty much had a small arsenal of security stuff running at all times, but I decided to quit most of it and go with Avast, although I still held onto a couple of things (Spyware Blaster, which runs in the background, and Malwarebytes, which I just use for scanning sometimes). I’m not really willing to totally give up Malwarebytes as, one time, it was the only thing that found and got rid of something I wound up with after a whopping 12-13 hours of trying.
Again, I don’t really want to go into major detail about this latest nasty, but do still have to give kudos to Avast – it was slightly crippled, but it still was the key that said YES there is a problem, after about an hour of me thinking “whoa, something is not right”. I had to pull out the big geek guns to truly rid myself of it and then ran a Malwarebytes scan (once I COULD) that picked up some probably unrelated riff raff, but yeah, it was a mess.
So that’s why there’s no TE Live update today. But you can look at what Jon just bought tonight here.
I’ll just post today’s and yesterday’s update tomorrow, ‘cos after all the hours of fooling with that infestation of techy badness, I really don’t feel like doing anything but finally finishing making dinner (at almost 11:30pm CST lol) and playing video games tonight after all that. :-)
But (and if you’re a Traffic Pro-X member who’s already read your e-mail, you can skip the rest of this – nobody can ever accuse me of not making an effort to be convenient sometimes!) I mainly today wanted to make sure everyone got their copy of the fabulous and free Traffic Exchange Solutions, the new e-book from Tony Tezak – not only because it’s such a good read & teaches you everything you need to know about effectively using traffic exchanges…
… but also because there are massive Traffic Pro-X credits at stake for those who sign up & download it from me and you’re about to miss out if you haven’t already grabbed it! (So you should go read your e-mail if you’re a Traffic Pro-X member and haven’t read your e-mail yet, LOL. I’m not gonna bore everyone else with the whole big list of goodies here.)
==> http://lynnm.net/recommends/trafficexchangesolutions
It’s a great book to have in your box of resources, there’s no doubt about that. You’ve probably been hearing this last week and a half about what an “affiliate landmine” it is – and it is! That’s the real value in it.
All you have to do is rebrand it and give it away to others who are searching to improve their results in the traffic exchanges. Then they can give it away too. Even if they don’t rebrand it for themselves, they’ll be spreading your affiliate links virally – possibly all over the planet!
There’s over 40 (I think now 42) affiliate links in Traffic Exchange Solutions. That’s a LOT of links to spread around and boost your downlines all over, and potentially earn you lots of affiliate commissions.
AND… you (and they) learn how to better and more effectively use traffic exchanges and get REAL results!
I like stuff like that.
==> http://lynnm.net/recommends/trafficexchangesolutions
One person that I work with fairly regularly and closely who is still a little new and getting their feet wet in traffic exchange and online marketing, and doesn’t have any real big downlines or regular commissions in much of anything yet, rebranded their copy last week.
And then someone they gave it to rebranded their copy. So my downline member got a 75% commission for that. (Nice!)
And others who didn’t take the sweet special offers on rebranding Traffic Exchange Solutions are passing their copies around and giving them away.
How do I know this? Because my downline member’s own downlines have been growing and growing ever since!
If you have ever wondered how those that are obviously successful using traffic exchanges do it – well, there ya go. That’s one of the “big secrets” – rebrand everything, and pass it on.
And there’s bunches more of the most successful surfer on the planet’s secrets to success within the pages of Traffic Exchange Solutions.
So sign up & download your copy of Traffic Exchange Solutions today if you haven’t yet. Seriously. (And if you’re a Traffic Pro-X member who signs up and downloads from my link, shoot me a support ticket with your User ID number and your name and you’ll get lotsa goodies and maybe even more on March 1st.)
All right, so I’ll be back soon with a TE Live update for Tuesday & Wednesday. Right now, I’m gonna go make quesadillas, play video games, wishing my neighbor’s power would go out (don’t ask!), and chill. Ciao!
4 Responses
Comment by Mark Hodgetts
February 25, 2010 at 5:54 am
Hi Lynn
I empathize. The something happened to me several months back when some particularly nasty virus basically ate my VET Anti Virus.
Eventually I turned to AVG and Malwarebytes to fix the problem but it cost me many lost hours, infected one of my websites and nearly crippled my business.
If it weren’t for the help of a couple of good friends I think it may have just about sent me under.
The really nasty thing is that you have no real way of getting any redress.
I’ve thought that it would be good if someday somebody with more time than you and I set up a registry of known bad sites that carry viruses.
I know that sites can be hacked and i frames inserted, but I’m talking about the chronic offenders.
I’m sure some of theTE owners know particular IP addresses are just bad news. A blacklist would be very convenient
Comment by Lynn M.
February 25, 2010 at 4:27 pm
Thanks, Mark, yeah, it was really bad and the fact that it actually shut down the things it did was very scary (for the record, I had to result to Combofix to repair it because literally nothing else could load or work).
I can’t complain too much as a whole, I’m one of the lucky few who has never gotten an email virus (thanks to many many years of using Eudora) and for a long time was always the one having to tell people they were infected – and for a long time I rarely got hit with much elsewhere.
The drive-by trojans and virii (which this wasn’t) are what really irk me. I have some amount of respect – if one can have respect for hackers – for those who write e-mail and other downloadable viruses. The drive-by ones from websites, no respect – that’s like a cheap shot and the coward’s way out, but probably those people just aren’t good enough to write a REAL virus. LOL.
Comment by Ellyn Weber-Bynum
February 25, 2010 at 8:05 am
Hi Lynn!
I’m glad you were able to clean your computer…and I’m a fan of Malwarebytes too. After being on the phone for 3 hours with an MSN rep (who was hard to understand!), trying everything to get rid of a virus I had, Malwarebytes finally did the trick! :-D
Comment by Lynn M.
February 25, 2010 at 4:28 pm
Hiya Ellyn, thanks, yeah, I dunno if you were listening/watching during your lunch break today but if you were, you probably read me saying what it did to Malwarebytes (and Avast), which is why this one was a bit more scary than usual and tougher to deal with. Generally Malwarebytes rocks totally tho!
Thanks for stopping by & commenting, in any case – see ya soon! :)
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