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My pc acquired the dreaded “lop” virus because of the usual usage of my rig by my officemates(flashdisk after flashdisk). Thinking my antivirus could handle it well, so I just ignored it.

Unfortunately due to its peskiness (lop virus), it still comes out occasionally. And all my antivirus does is to put it in inside the vault. I guess it’s time to manually remove it.

As I have removed similar malicious malware before. I know “regedit” would do the job. But “lo and behold” I got this error message while trying to run regedit.exe “Regedit has been disabled by your administrator” WTF! - How come I didn’t know about it, I was the administrator of my pc! lol!

I soon found out that even my Task Manager was disabled. I immediately asked my techie friend for some advice. He also immediately responded and said “You have to reformat your drive!”

Whoa! Not again! We’ll during my younger days I always do that (formatting) but now it’s becoming a tedious remedy for me, NO WAY, I have to find a way to bring back my regedit and task manager!

Later that day I got myself a solution through my favorite site, TPC. I got myself a downloadable and executable file, it works and yes it’s FREE! It’s called the RRT - Remove Restriction  Tool from www.sergiwa.com.

So simple to use, no need to install. Just a few clicks, restart my pc, and that’s it! My regedit and task manager is back. 

But the “lop” still exist on my pc! Waaahhhhh!!! Helppppp!!!

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I just join the bandwagon of zero page rank blogs! I’m not so surprised coz I knew it was coming; Last Thursday (December 6) I posted “my first for godsake” opportunity blog for payperpost titled “Officially a Postie“, knowing the news about blogs that utilized payperpost are being deranked by Google, I still pushed my luck and post it, I even recall a comment by a fellow blogger saying “Hi, Are you not worried that Google will run after your blog and reduce your PR to zero?” And it did happen! After 4 days my website was grabbed of its PR4, just like that! (that guy is a psychic)

It was so sad for PPP bloggers like me, for it would greatly affect us in having some nice opportunities due to the loss of our PR. Im just doing this to supplement my low monthly income, is it bad? Now all my dreams of earning  via blogging was devastated. I hope Google would give us their side on why they made such a move.

I was scheduled to do many things yesterday like - create a favicon, check mails, etc..but instead I spend the whole morning reading a thread consisting of 32 pages at PPP Boards - Am I imagining this? — PR Dropping to 0

I also try different Page Rank checker online for a second look at my PR, nevertheless they’re all consistent of PR ZERO  results! wahhhhhhh!

Know what people at IZEA is doing about it. CLICK HERE.

I would like to quote some of the bloggers reaction on the said PPP forum:

Quoted:

“It’s ordinary folks like myself who have made Google the giant it is. They should be thanking us, not smacking us around.”

“I don’t want to whine about this but I really needed the money that doing paid posts was bringing in”

“I liked blogging a whole lot more when I didn’t even know what PageRank was.”

“All we need to do is tell people how Google - a big company with approximately 13,000 employees - is bullying individual stay at home Moms who simply want to be able to earn enough to stay at home.

Is it our fault that companies can pay for links in order to rank higher in Google’s search engine? No.

Is it our fault that Google has decided to penalise us individual bloggers rather than penalizing the companies who made the decision to do that? No.

Bloggers are a powerful force. Posties have been able to get the word out about great products and services - we can get the word out about BAD products and services just as effectively. All we have to do is speak out.

Contact your local media. Write letters to the paper. Post about it on any forums you might belong to. Type until you have sore fingers - and then keep typing some more!

But most of all, speak about how the big bully Google are bullying Moms and Dads, and every day people just trying to make enough money to be able to be able to feed their kids.” By snoskred

“All of my blogs are showing 0!! What the heck is going on??? I hope it’s just a glitch!”

“Both of mine dropped to PR0 today also. All I have to say is Google sucks!!!”

“Even my daughter’s blog, who does no paid posts at all, is showing 0 PR. Something is up.”

“if this is real, and not a glitch…
what a wonderful early Christmas gift. /sarcasm”

“It’s a problem for now, but not the end of the world. Ultimately this could be Google shooting themselves in the foot when we replace PR with something real - RealRank.”

“Three of mine are now a zero, but the only one without any PPP stuff is still showing a 2.”

“But it is still hurting me badly, almost no income for the xmas season. Soon i will be on 1/2 rations.”

“It will be done, and google PR will soon be a thing of the past across the entire net”

“I think they are doing this to PPP blogs. ALL my PPP blogs are 0 but the one that isn’t, is still a 3. And I don’t do TLA.”

“No surrender for me. Google’s got too much power already. I’m not giving them anymore. They think my blogs suck? So be it. I’m going to do nothing different to suit their goals of an Internet monopoly. Count me out.”

“Now that pretty much everyone has a PR 0, something has to be done by payperpost, otherwise, bloggers will start dropping like flies.”

“If I start thinking about how I’m going to have to tell the kids that we can’t have Christmas this year because the mean, rotten, old Google-Scrooge has taken it away, I’ll seriously lose it. “

Lastly from : googlesystem.blogspot.com

“At the end of the day, you shouldn’t let Google or any other search engine dictate the way you build your site. You should just be honest with yourself and your visitors and don’t try to earn money from sites that deceive search engines. You should build a site for your visitors and not for search engines.”

And website like these two were born: zeropagerank.com, and googlepageranksucks.com

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I am so loyal with my email address that I’ve been using it since time immemorial. I was occasionally given a new email addresses from services like from my internet provider or from my webhost but I seldom or don’t use it at all.

Until one day when I got nothing to do, I chanced to look each icon on my taskbar, and double-click the odd looking MSN icon that was sitting on my taskbar ever since.

That’s where it all started. Now I got myself something new to tinker. I sign-up the form for an email account at hotmail.com. I liked its simple but customizable interface. Not only that, I can now use Windows Live and all its suite of services under one account. Like the Windows Messenger, Spaces, Onecare, Live Search and a lot more. So to all of you hotmail users out there. You could now add me to your contacts! raredog[at]hotmail[dot]com

Added info: Windows Live Hotmail promises to deliver a safer, more powerful and productive email experience when compared with earlier versions. It will also provide flexible access via the Web, on a mobile phone or with an email client.

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