Thankyou Lee, I opened the email because it was supposedly from my son, when I got suspicious I called him and he confirmed that it was not from him. The link that I opened seemed like something we had been discussing recently, so that is what caught me. I use Carbonite from my off site backup, and have used Lastpass to generate my passwords. > On Jul 26, 2016, at 11:39 AM, Lee Larson <leelar...@me.com> wrote: > > On Jul 25, 2016, at 1:03 PM, MICHAEL ROBERTSON <mikef...@me.com> wrote: > >> What would you do if you were an idiot like me, and opened a link in a >> email, that you realized was malicious. Take the unit to Simply Mac, to have >> them run a scan? >> Buy some program from Norton or others, to run a scan. >> Obviously change passwords for sites for banking and retail. >> Any opinions appreciated. > > How do you know it was malicious? > > If all you did was open a link, then likely all it could do was send a > JavaScript and a few cookies. Clear your history and cookies and you’ll > probably be OK. Make sure you have good backups. > > L^2 > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > Posting address: MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/macgroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu/> > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
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