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Rules are rules 🤷 There can be no exceptions. If you were granted one, then every other member on this forum would have to be an exception as well. To be quite honest, I volunteer for a local non-profit, and I find this kind of blatant self-promotion to be entirely unnecessary. If they are truly interested in advertising, there is always marketing 😉
I would have been that moderator who went ahead and deleted your signature beforehand. You sent me this and this link via private message (noting that I should read the final post first). Consequently, the administrators gave it the green light, and your signature has been restored along with an apology.
Please, do share with us what you consider the most effective method and which form of high-quality protection you would recommend, so that if I ever find myself in such a situation tomorrow, I will know exactly how to proceed.😉
fadedmarlin402 said:Given my background as an IT professional,
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An actual IT professional wouldn't be coming to a forum to ask how to handle a situation like this. A virtual keyboard isn't going to solve your problems. Your first step should be looking at the people living under your roof. Is it a brother? A sister? If you don't have any siblings around, then just wipe Windows and reinstall everything, because there might be a keylogger embedded in a game. If even that doesn't work, change every single one of your passwords and email credentials—though you mentioned you already did that. But what was the point of doing that on the same computer where a keylogger could simply record those new changes?
If it was removed, please don't attempt to repost it. It is possible the thread was moved or deleted entirely. I would suggest sending a private message to the moderator of the specific subforum where you originally posted it; they should be able to explain exactly why it was taken down.