Thanks Marco & Skip for your guidance about Google+. Whilst I have either deleted or disabled it I think that it is smart to change my password ... will do. Physical access to my phone/tablet/pc would not have been possible so if someone has gained access to my Account it must have been online. Cheers Ron
On Monday, 19 October 2015 14:40:09 UTC+2, Skip Montanaro wrote: > > > However I do not understand what you mean by 'I'm not sure how you got > all that content on your page'. Would appreciate why you think my account > may have been compromised. > > When you start Google+ for the first time, you shouldn't be following > anybody, so your view should be empty. It's been awhile since I want > following anybody, so I don't recall exactly what I saw, but I would think > that, at most, I might have seen some suggestions from Google about groups > or people I might find interesting. Those suggestions would have been > innocuous, certainly not something which would have made me want to delete > the app from my tablet. > > Marko was suggesting that someone else could have had access to your > account, either by, for example, getting physical access to your tablet, or > guessing your password. Either way, someone could have easily signed you up > to follow stuff of all sorts. > > So, you should change your password just to be safe. If you worry that > someone gained physical access to your tablet, make sure you require a > password to unlock it as well. Neither should be easy for others to guess. > Google for "how to choose a strong password" to get a nearly infinite > number of tips. > > Skip Montanaro > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gmail-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to gmail-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
