Ha! Well, that was my first thought, but she denies it. I hadn't heard of such a thing happening on Safari before so I thought I'd post it to the group. Is this something that my brother-in-law can control through parental controls, or would that just block all internet access?
Rick On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Tom Guenthner <[email protected]>wrote: > GEE! ...Rick you best ask her. > > Tom > On Jun 22, 2011, at 10:57 AM, Rick Burnett wrote: > > A few months ago we sold my brother-in-law our old Macbook. The only people > that use it or have access to it are him and his wife (primarily his wife). > He called yesterday because the history in Safari showed a bunch of adult > websites. His wife claims that she didn't visit them. I've never had a > problem with any of my machines doing this, but I'm not sure what the most > current virus/malware situation is. I know that his wife uses Facebook a lot > and is always doing those quizzes and apps and such on there. Is it possible > that one of those could have done something with Safari to make all these > sites show up in the browser history? > They don't try and download music or application or anything that I'm aware > of. > At first I thought perhaps she had been visiting the sites and just not > wanting to tell him, but he showed me the browser history and it is a LOT of > different webpages going back for a few days. > > Any thoughts? Has their Mac been compromised or does she just not want to > fess up? ;) > > Rick > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > >
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