Re: Macs and viruses

2016-11-24 Thread Michael Shaw
Not just free, but mandatory. On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 1:25 PM, Russell Courtenay wrote: > FREE MACS FOR ALL! That is all we want! > > Russell Courtenay > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Nov 24, 2016, at 5:43 AM, W.Adrian D'Alessio > wrote: > > Then

Re: Macs and viruses

2016-11-24 Thread GMail Valter Psicof
Il giorno 24/11/16 16.01, "Tom Coradeschi" ha scritto: > With regard to #1, that is a patently false statement. > > ClamXAv, Avast and several others are clearly good antivirus apps and are not > even remotely Trojan horses. I have been using Avast (free edition) for at least a year on my iMac

Re: Macs and viruses

2016-11-24 Thread Russell Courtenay
FREE MACS FOR ALL! That is all we want! Russell Courtenay Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 24, 2016, at 5:43 AM, W.Adrian D'Alessio > wrote: > > Then buy Macs for us. > > > Adrian D'Alessio aka; Fluxstringer > fluxstrin...@gmail.com >

Re: Macs and viruses

2016-11-24 Thread W.Adrian D'Alessio
Then buy Macs for us. Adrian D'Alessio aka; Fluxstringer fluxstrin...@gmail.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/fluxstreamcommunication/ http://www.facebook.com/FluxStringer https://www.youtube.com/user/fluxstringer http://www.linkedin.com/in/fluxstreamcommunications On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at

Re: Macs and viruses

2016-11-23 Thread Michael Shaw
Friends don't let friends use Windows On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 1:10 PM, NODEraser wrote: > I use the free version of Avast! on my Mac (Mountain Lion) and get all > sorts of notifications from viruses in emails, though I'm pretty sure > that they are mostly for Windows. Even

Re: Macs and viruses

2016-11-19 Thread NODEraser
I use the free version of Avast! on my Mac (Mountain Lion) and get all sorts of notifications from viruses in emails, though I'm pretty sure that they are mostly for Windows. Even if you're not susceptible to many viruses, I think it's worth being a good cyber-neighbor to make sure that you're not

Re: Macs and viruses

2016-11-18 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 18, 2016, at 9:46 AM, Russell Courtenay > wrote: This modern ransomware threat is scary, I have a separate, removable external hard drive for weekly backup for this reason on the PC server, just wish I could get Windows to

Re: Macs and viruses

2016-11-18 Thread N. Shani
Bill et al, The ISP is NOT doing its job! I work for one (local, not-for-profit) and we educate our members to ensure that their OS firewalls are up, run a test to see if any router ports are accessible from the outside (we use https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2, but I'm sure there are other

Re: Macs and viruses

2016-11-18 Thread Russell Courtenay
Great info for all of us especially coming from a professional environment, Bruce, thanks. Priorities are important in data security. Even on Windows the only virus I ever had was the 'kak.worm' many years ago, and it didn't infect anything because I was still using text only for my email. It

Re: Macs and viruses

2016-11-18 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 18, 2016, at 7:02 AM, Bill Spencer > wrote: Hi there: My wife has lately been getting spam emails, allegedly from her email provider, which include links to click to resolve "problems"--you know the drill. She has not taken the bait, but when I

Macs and viruses

2016-11-18 Thread Bill Spencer
Hi there: My wife has lately been getting spam emails, allegedly from her email provider, which include links to click to resolve "problems"--you know the drill. She has not taken the bait, but when I contacted the provider on her behalf to triple-check that her account is still in the clear,