2 other thoughts Harry... As to spam with Bellsouth/AT&T, I have always trained mine that when 1 makes it into my Inbox, I mark it as spam. Bellsouth has been very good about learning to put that domain into the Spam box in the future.I about closing the accounts (rather than letting them sit there). Reason being, 1 day a bot will eventually crack the password and start sending out junk to everyone in your address book. If you can't find a way to delete the account, then make sure you remove all the email addresses of those folks you previously saved.Take care,Jeff
---------- Original Message ---------- From: Harry Jacobson-Beyer <[email protected]> To: Topics Macintosh computers related to Apple and <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MacGroup] was I hacked Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2017 11:14:00 -0800 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 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] 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]] On Behalf Of Harry Jacobson-BeyerSent: Friday, February 17, 2017 6:49 PMTo: Topics Macintosh computers related to Apple andSubject: 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]> 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 listPosting address: [email protected]: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/> <eric small.jpg>B. Eric Bradley • (502) 303-5199 • (502) 454-4207 land & fax _______________________________________________MacGroup mailing listPosting address: [email protected]: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/> _______________________________________________MacGroup mailing listPosting address: [email protected]: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
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