Does that mean that that's only way the login.oscar.aol.com account that
I found on his machine could have gotten installed in iChat preferences
next to the Bonjour acct?
I tend to agree with your experience but in this case my uncle can't
type, has trouble clicking on the right button instead of the left (I
got him a MS mouse because he had too much trouble with the Apple
mouse) and he doesn't even know anyone by the name of Oscar, no less
had them over his house.
He's older... nobody comes to visit but his daughter who is a busy
professional ... not the chat type and doesn't hang around when she
visits ... and has an iPhone with her when she comes.
Can I chase down oscar.aol.com on my own by other means to see if it is
someone he knows?
(I know nothing about Chat ... I have 0 experience since about 10 years
ago when I experimented with it briefly ...)
db
Jordan wrote:
db wrote:
It's a new computer and the most he might have done was accidentally
clicked on the iChat icon on the Dock (he says he didn't..) ...
which could have launched the program. Somehow it got launched. (I
think maybe iChat gets automatically launched if you access the
camera or microphone).
(Interestingly, most people's Macs I come across have many programs
running because they normally only close windows and don't realize
the programs are still running.)
Once it was running maybe his computer was visible to AIM by default
and people contacted him via AIM launching those chat windows?
That seems like a bad situation if that is the default. Does anyone
know?
What was the exploit that was in the news a while back about Macs and
iChat/ camera and microphone?
Not to call anyone a lier or anything but from long experience, older
people, my mother and others, may do some surprising stuff on the
computer, and either not realize it or forget about it. Or they get
someone to help them with the computer and forget. There are simply no
other explanations for some of the stuff I've seen on her computer,
and others.
I had the same experience when I was supervising inexperienced CNC
machine operators.
You can burn a lot of time trying to figure out how something
happened, but sometimes you just have to let it go.
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