Hi InvisibleMan
It is not at all a foolish question as clearly***** a ,lot of people are being effected or are concerned.
*****Possibly you need to take the time to browse through the many Threads , peaking in particular in the last few weeks on this one..They are all there up front to see in this Sub Forum.. just a quick sample ..
http://www.excelforum.com/suggestion...g-threats.html
http://www.excelforum.com/suggestion...le-chrome.html
http://www.excelforum.com/suggestion...g-trojans.html
http://www.excelforum.com/suggestion...-img-link.html
http://www.excelforum.com/suggestion...e-changes.html
http://www.excelforum.com/suggestion...d-attempt.html
http://www.excelforum.com/suggestion...rly-again.html
http://www.excelforum.com/the-water-...e-warning.html
http://www.excelforum.com/the-water-...y-loading.html
http://www.excelforum.com/suggestion...ml#post4314257
http://www.excelforum.com/suggestion...ml#post4312246
http://www.excelforum.com/excel-gene...orum-down.html
http://www.excelforum.com/suggestion...ss-denied.html
_...But admittedly it is getting flooded and difficult to go through them all..!!!!!!!!!!!!
_..If you did tunnel through you would catch a few posts where some info has been communicated..
http://www.excelforum.com/suggestion...ml#post4308616
http://www.excelforum.com/suggestion...ml#post4309370
_.. You have to bear in mind that the people we "see" are volunteers, here to satisfy their Excel "addiction" and give an amazing free service helping with Excel. They may get understandably a bit fed up with the endless post they see on the increasing seemingly never ending problems just now. They may not want to fuel the discussions more by replying and cluttering up further this Sub Forum. And They are also not immune, and may experience access problems. And they choose to concentrate on doing a great job helping people with Excel...if / when they still can
_. It is a very long characteristic going back many years that the EF Management make rare appearances to update on problems.
http://www.excelforum.com/the-water-...se-please.html
http://www.excelforum.com/the-water-...80#post2698780
http://www.excelforum.com/suggestion...ml#post2704574
_. Clearly that is a Policy. Maybe they too do not want to fuel the discussion, and cluttering further the Sub Forum. Who knows. Or maybe a big banner to warn people coming to the site would be very bad for business. Not everyone thinks to look over here in this Sub Forum. So a large amount of peole may still be "blissfully, luckilly ( or unluckely ) unaware!!
_ It is obvious that many prominent members are “dropping” ( or being dropped ) like flies.
_ But some are still there, possibly lucky in not being, ( or blissfully unaware that they are being ) effected by viruses. So they continue doing great work and the Forum will likely go on , all be it at a reduced or slower rate..
_ In a way you could argue that it finds a niche. - The other main Excel Forum has the other extreme - it moves sometimes with an insane speed. Things are becoming very slow here.
_ For the greater good, maybe that is OK, maybe not. Maybe that is a management Policy or aim. But it is very unkind on some people that have contributed so much and then are just ... dropped.. lost... gone......
_But that is sometimes Life.
Alan
P.s. Just more of the same--- It took me an hour before I got a “window of access” to post this got the
“Website is offline No cached version of this page is available.
Error 524”
_... plenty of posts on that variation........ http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...t=#post4317153
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