Oops that should have been Eugene, thanks. And thanks too to Ed. for his comments. > On Feb 18, 2017, at 11:14 AM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ed, > > Thanks for your reply. > > There are no subscriptions attached to the Excite, Juno & Yahoo accounts. > They just keep accruing spam. If I just stop logging on to them will they > eventually be disabled after they overflow with spam and/or if I stop > checking them? > > What about my bellsouth email addresses? I have two that I no longer use. One > used to be my primary email address which I stopped using months ago because > it received so much spam. The second was set up to use for subscriptions. > When the primary email address began to get spam I set up a gmail account for > subscriptions and unsubscribed everything on the second bellsouth email. I > have disabled the two bellsouth accounts in Mail on my computer, iPhone, and > ipad. I check them once a month through webmail on Yahoo. But I would really > like to permanently cancel them. If I stop checking them will they also go > away? > > My wife has a bellsouth email address which she uses for everything. She get > 3-4 spam emails per day. She is reluctant to change to a me.com > <http://me.com/> or gmail address. The thought of changing over, overwhelms > her. > > BTW, when we first signed up with Bellsouth I set up my Bellsouth Email and > my wife’s bellsouth email was a secondary email. > > Any words of wisdom will be appreciated. > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > >> On Feb 18, 2017, at 3:10 AM, [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> wrote: >> >> To get rid of them unsubscribe from any emails that you can. Then after a >> month just stop logging on to them. I got a virus on my Bellsouth >> account/Yahoo account and the virus wasn’t even on my computer it was on >> Yahoo’s server. It redirected all email on the account to a Hotmail account. >> Trying to crack into any important email’s that came to that account. I use >> google and apple email addresses now. >> >> From: [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> [mailto:[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Harry >> Jacobson-Beyer >> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2017 6:49 PM >> To: Topics Macintosh computers related to Apple and >> Subject: Re: [MacGroup] was I hacked >> >> Thanks. >> >> I was using Excite, Juno, and Yahoo for short periods. I have email accounts >> which I no longer use but don’t know how do get rid of the accounts so I >> check them once a month to delete all the span and junk emails. >> >> And who knows what I get when using them. >> >> Will the fan go off on it’s own after awhile? Is there any way to turn it >> off after it’s been on a while and I am off those pages mentioned above? >> >> >> Thanks for the info. >> >> On Feb 17, 2017, at 3:40 PM, B. Eric Bradley <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Yes, there's a fan in there. Most likely you had something open that was >> making the graphics card work harder than usual, like a web page running a >> bunch of Flash ads or some such. Or the room you were in was warmer than >> usual. A hacker wouldn't have any interest in turning your computer fan on. >> >> >> On Feb 17, 2017, at 6:11 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote: >> >> >> I was using my MacBook Air (away from my trusted home network and on an >> unsecured wifi) when the fan started to spin really fast and really loud (is >> there even a fan in my computer?) I forced the computer to shut down by >> holding the powerkey down till it shut off then started it up again. >> >> What gives? >> >> Thanks. >> _______________________________________________ >> MacGroup mailing list >> Posting address: [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>> >> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/ >> <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>> >> >> <eric small.jpg> >> >> B. Eric Bradley • (502) 303-5199 • (502) 454-4207 land & fax >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacGroup mailing list >> Posting address: [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>> >> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/ >> <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacGroup mailing list >> Posting address: [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>> >> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/ >> <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>> >
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