I never let anyone except apple support into my macs. Sure don’t trust adobe.
> On Sep 28, 2017, at 2:58 PM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > What do you say? > > Of late I’ve had three firms want to “join” me on my computer, I accept in > order to try and solve the problems….not long ago I actually became a good > friend (if there is such a thing on line) with a man from India…The new Adobe > Acrobat DC is a great program…however the scanning feature is noting to write > home about….and there were several outdated files from various version of > Acrobat… > > So my friend from India was inside my Mac for a long while, on several > occasions…I was sweating….can I really trust this guy…is he putting a file or > two on my machine that allows him or Adobe to follow me? Harm? > > Then today when I tried to update the maps on the Garmin the download was 6 > gig and I only had a 4 gig card…Visited Best Buy and now the devise had 16 > gig…and it will would not load. > > I started a chat which evolved to a phone call, evolving to once again a > program loaded to allow Garmin into my machine… > > I watched this man go everywhere, even into Terminal where he wrote items I > had no clue. > > Finally a call saying I had firmware that needed to be updated so the maps > would load….it was only going to cost me $49.00 and good for the life of this > devise… > > All went well, lasting an hour…all the while I wondered what the heck was > going on that I didn’t understand. > > This has been the case with another firm as well. > > Question….am I losing my mind by allowing these firms into my machine? > > What do you think? > > How would you handle the same? How do you correct the problems that you > can’t solve and they only offer working on your machine themselves? > > If it’s a well known firm such as Adobe or Garmin can they be trusted? > > This procedure seems to be a method more and more firms are using….should I > just take a Valium and not worry? > > Thanks for your thoughts and suggestions. > > John > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > Posting address: [email protected] > Archive: > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.mail-2Darchive.com_macgroup-40erdos.math.louisville.edu_&d=DwIFaQ&c=OAG1LQNACBDguGvBeNj18Swhr9TMTjS-x4O_KuapPgY&r=F2GFXrjLFqVo3VwvIlo_XYeEiRRjHv15rxcenz7A21woG2aFGcrzndoSsskxfmOs&m=4zpMzpC_4JkMnFrKKAMyyQOrjMtBD_MkoFWkpzMRGhE&s=awdhl48DWpNXIfvMNPsHN9IEWV864PKMef4pNHiOUmI&e= > > > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
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