On Jul 9, 2010, at 3:46 PM, Neal Hammon wrote:
> This is not exactly an answer to your question, but some time ago, I heard
> that if you put a phony email address at the top of your address book, it
> would stop hackers at that point from getting the other names.
This seems unlikely to me.
Fi
Nolan
You might want to save that, "with tears in my eyes." It might sound
good if you ever started writing romantic novels.
Neal
On Jul 410, 1120102007, at 7:17 PM, Nolan Porterfield wrote:
This is my second post on the subject, after reading messages from
Neal, Bill, and Lee. What you
Nolan
What issues with gmail? I'm about to switch from earthlink to gmail.
Chris
-Original Message-
>From: Nolan Porterfield
>Sent: Jul 10, 2010 7:17 PM
>To: MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu
>Subject: [MacGroup] Virus protection
>
>This is my sec
This is my second post on the subject, after reading messages from Neal,
Bill, and Lee. What you tell me is comforting. I will definitely
incorporate Neal's suggestion; I will think twice about virus protection;
and I suspect that one reason I was victimized was that I had an undue
number of addr
ClamXav is a free virus checker for Mac *OS X*.
On 7/9/10, Nolan Porterfield wrote:
>
> As some of you may know, this last week I was victimized by a hacker who
> got my e-mail address and tried to scam everyone in my address book. My
> daughter, the computer whiz, advises that I need to install
100 % protection unplug computer and never use.
Do you use a web browser to view email at anytime.
Use a social network site like Facebook.
Do you forward emails to others that have been forwarded from some one else.
All of these will get your email address out there.
I have private email addres
On 07/09/2010 04:29 PM, Bill Rising wrote:
I could be wrong, but my guess is that there is no problem with Nolan's Mac and
no pressing need for virus protection. His email address was likely stolen from
the address book/email history of an infected PC, not from his Mac, and buying
virus protec
On Jul 9, 2010, at 15:46 , Neal Hammon wrote:
> Nolan:
>
> This is not exactly an answer to your question, but some time ago, I heard
> that if you put a phony email address at the top of your address book, it
> would stop hackers at that point from getting the other names. I may have
> heard
Boy, I would sure be interested in the others take on this. If it works what a
great way to at least prevent access to the address book.
John
On Jul 9, 2010, at 3:46 PM, Neal Hammon wrote:
> Nolan:
>
> This is not exactly an answer to your question, but some time ago, I heard
> that if you
Nolan:
This is not exactly an answer to your question, but some time ago, I
heard that if you put a phony email address at the top of your address
book, it would stop hackers at that point from getting the other
names. I may have heard this from someone in our MacGroup.
Anyhow, I put-- A
As some of you may know, this last week I was victimized by a hacker who got
my e-mail address and tried to scam everyone in my address book. My
daughter, the computer whiz, advises that I need to install a good virus app
-- I'm one of those Mac-users who has always relied on the old notion that
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