ARRA News Service Attacked By A Virus

Bill Smith, Editor: Late last night, I was performing an edit review of links suggested to readers. The links are to conservative bloggers, activist organizations, government sites and places recommend by the editor. Half way through the process, when visiting a link to a Washington, D.C. site, I noted the site was no longer being maintained and was in the process of deleting the link.
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Within seconds a virus from the dormant site attacked my main computer over-riding all of the virus software, firewalls, and protection on the computer. The symbolism of the attack is interesting since it was from a D.C. blog. Are conservatives disliked that much :).

Although I shut down immediately to protect the ARRA News Service and other blogs, the virus rendered normal operation of the computer useless. Although the virus was been removed quickly, it has prevented our using the computer other than in "safe mode."

Unfortunately, this caused reporting to fall behind today. But we are online - just behind. Tomorrow, I will be blogging and tweeting from the Smart Girl Summit in Saint Louis, Missouri.

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