At 10:45 PM -0400 10/12/2009, Richard Gerome wrote:
>I had some friends in the past leave their computer on and online on 
>a website they were checking out all night and they all had to clean 
>the drive and reinstall but they all had PC's

Their error was using Windoze in the first place.  And keep in mind 
that the basic troubleshooting step for Windoze is to reinstall.

But you're smarter than that.  You use a Mac.  And Apple is smart 
enough to have designed an operating system that doesn't corrupt 
itself!

>Another thing that isn't good to do is download your e-mail to your 
>computer via Outlook etc etc etc... I always check my e-mail in 
>webmail (on earthlink's website in my case)...   I'm not sure how 
>all this works (hackers spyware phishing) so I don't take any 
>chances...

There is NO added safety provided by using webmail.  I think you need 
to learn exactly what malware is and how it works.

- Dan.
-- 
- Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth.

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