More on JustHost and Sitelock

Following publication of yesterday's post, I eagerly ran toward and fully embraced depravity.

Is there no caring God? It is as if He has done naught but abet my fall over all of the years of my adult life.

My brother was tardy in arriving home last evening, so I was into my bed a mere couple or so minutes after 9:00 p.m., I believe. I sorely needed to escape awareness.

Then four hours later after a time check, I rose to get to work on the post I am developing at one of my six hosted websites.

Incidentally, I have twice before reported how I received both a phone call and then an E-mail from representatives of JustHost, the hosting company that I have one of my other six hosted websites at ─ the website is LatinImpressions.com.

The first call and E-mail arrived in April, and the second call and E-mail earlier this month of May ─ both times it was a different JustHost employee.

I never took the phone calls ─ messages were left on our landline answering machine.

The gist was that my website had a malware infection, and I was to get in touch with them to arrange cleaning ─ this was what the second representative suggested in that regard:

1. Prevent (recommended for proactive security): Fully automated scan and clean - advanced firewall included - cleans database and files(6 hour setup time, up to 24 hours for initial scan and removal for malware)
--- $179.88/yr per site, renews at $239.88/yr per site

2. Prevent Plus (recommended for infected sites): Constant scanning and malware removal - advanced firewall included - automated patching of site for most recent updates, and concierge service for advanced cleaning and response(6-12 hour time frame for the concierge clean)
--- $299.88/yr per site, renews at $359.88/yr per site

Option 1 is automated which has a 6 hour setup time, then once setup is complete, 24 hours for the initial scan and malware removal to complete. Option 2 has the concierge service which will be a manual clean on the website, this has a 6-12 hour time frame while security is setup which is our fastest response for malware removal.

Note that I am Canadian and those are U.S. dollars being quoted. I am already paying paying $24.99 a month Canadian (that's just cents shy of $300 a year!) just to keep my website online; and in the decade or more that it has been online, I have never made a cent from it in affiliate income.

I am a 70-year-old pensioner with no other income source ─ I cannot afford to keep on with that sort of outlay. Even if I agreed to the first cleansing option, these are the rates a currency conversion into Canadian dollars results in ─ without taking into account the monthly hosting fee I am already paying:

$247.25/yr per site, renews at $321.72/yr per site  

If I chose the second more expensive option:

$412.19/yr per site, renews at $494.66/yr per site

Can you imagine? The very cheapest option for the introductory year would put my outlay at $547.13 when my monthly hosting fees are added into the equation.

Just to have a solitary website that pays me nothing kept online for sentimentality's sake alone?

So I essentially E-mailed both employees back and told them to stuff it ─ I also said to just let me know, and I will quit paying the monthly hosting fee (I pay it month by month). I am fully prepared to kiss the website ─ a money pit ─ goodbye.

Neither person responded.

Then two days ago, I was left a phone call from yet a third dude ─ "Joe" (the first two employees were "Tyler" and then "Gilbert"). But he didn't bother E-mailing me so that I could give him the same response as I did the other two chaps.

Note who the security options I quoted above are with, though ─ this prefaced those two options:

We partner with Sitelock to have scanning and firewall security that includes malware removal that will be able to resolve this for you. There are 2 levels I would recommend for your website: ....

If you perform a Google search for "Sitelock malware scam", you will have lots to read!

I had previously researched this very matter when I first heard from JustHost a couple or so years ago about their partnership with Sitelock, so I only had to refresh myself ─ even if my website was pulling in some monthly income, I refuse to be swindled by false malware or virus claims. 

I see that it is already nearly 7:00 p.m. ─ I have to put this post to bed, for I want to do the same for myself by 9:00 p.m. or so. My brother went out this afternoon without his van ─ this indicates that he has some serious drinking in mind.

He would have gone and caught a bus, and will have to return in the same fashion. And that is unlikely to happen until into the latter evening ─ plenty of time for me to get myself to bed and avoid having to sit up late with him, for only I am able to operate our T9 Android 8.1 TV Box to fetch episodes of some of the T.V. series we follow.

He will have to settle for basic cable programming, but that includes access to my youngest stepson's Netflix Canada account.

I will only add that it has been an entirely sunny day, and I benefitted from around 40 minutes of sunning out in the backyard this afternoon while attired in just a pair of gym shorts.

Oh gosh! I just discovered that Google Photos created a collage today from some photos that I have in a Google Photos album, and which were evidently taken exactly eight years ago ─ I must post the collage:

I was not present, but my wife was ─ it was an event called "Thai Night 2012" and held somewhere in Vancouver.

These are the original photos:

That is my wife at the far right in the bottom photo ─ she is also in the two photos immediately above it. The beautiful lass wearing the garland is Toy (also known as Kelly). The only other gal I can identify is in the middle photo ─ at the far right wearing the black top with large-mesh sleeves ─ I know her as Fanta.

I gotta go!

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