MacGroup: Spyware and Popups

2004-01-09 Thread Alex Whitman
Rob, In theory I agree with you, but in practice... well, spit happens. Especially with one-button mice. And a cat who likes to prowl about and unexpectedly pounce on my mouse hand. Alex Whitman On Jan 9, 2004, at 5:56 PM, Rob Kersting wrote: How about not clicking on any popups. I'm not

MacGroup: Spyware and Popups

2004-01-09 Thread Bill Rising
On 1/9/04 16:34, George H. Yankey wrote Like Michael Robertson, I saw the article about spyware and wonder what to do about it. Also, there was a report on TV news last night about a lady being billed for a long distance phone call that resulted from her clicking on a Popup. How did that

MacGroup: Spyware and Popups

2004-01-09 Thread Rob Kersting
How about not clicking on any popups. I'm not trying to be heartless, cruel or insulting, but anyone who clicks on the Get Rich Quick Now or Last Chance To Buy This or whatever deserves what they get. Let's face it folks, there are some real morons out there using computers. The Nigerian Money

MacGroup: Wiretap

2004-01-09 Thread Harry Jacobson-Beyer
I had no problem downloading and installing WireTap. I installed it on a machine running jaguar. Friday, January 9, 20045:54 PMRobert M. Kleinrobert at kleinlawyer.com I tried this download, and when I went to run the installer, I got an error message: The postinstall script was either not

MacGroup: Spyware and Popups

2004-01-09 Thread George H. Yankey
Like Michael Robertson, I saw the article about spyware and wonder what to do about it. Also, there was a report on TV news last night about a lady being billed for a long distance phone call that resulted from her clicking on a Popup. How did that happen and what can Mac users do to prevent

MacGroup: Wiretap

2004-01-09 Thread Bill Rising
On 1/9/04 17:54, Robert M. Klein wrote I tried this download, and when I went to run the installer, I got an error message: The postinstall script was either not executable or not readable. Do you have a copy of Stuffit Expander v. 8.0 on your machine? There was a bug in where it forgot to set

MacGroup: Wiretap

2004-01-09 Thread Robert M. Klein
I tried this download, and when I went to run the installer, I got an error message: The postinstall script was either not executable or not readable. Robert On 1/5/04 5:15 PM, macgroup-digest owner-macgroup-digest at erdos.math.louisville.edu emailed: Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 21:09:08 -0500

MacGroup: Wiretap

2004-01-09 Thread Ward Oldham
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MacGroup: Is there any way to back up email in OS X's mail.app?

2004-01-09 Thread Brian O'Neal
Is there any way to back up email in OS X's mail.app? Brian O'Neal | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 27. The LCS Web page is http://www.kymac.org. | This list's page is http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup.

MacGroup: spyware

2004-01-09 Thread Lee Larson
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 10:13, Michael Robertson noted I took note of article in yesterdays CJ about AOL providing spyware protection and that earthlink already has it for windows users. Is this something that us Mac users should consider having? I run all the latest security updates with

MacGroup: spyware

2004-01-09 Thread Michael Robertson
I took note of article in yesterdays CJ about AOL providing spyware protection and that earthlink already has it for windows users. Is this something that us Mac users should consider having? I run all the latest security updates with software update, and am using a router for my dsl