Re: Adware warning!

2015-04-25 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hello, Imaging or backing up and restoring isn’t going to change until the user changes their behaviour. Think before you click. As for root access with VoiceOver, in the terminal you can use the sudo command and make changes to the system. Gena On 24 Apr 2015, at 00:39, M. Taylor

Re: Adware warning!

2015-04-24 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Good to know. My parents just got fooled. They say that there was some popup that said their flash was out of date and to download an updater. Well, they went ahead and did that but it wasn't the real Flash updater. So now every time they click a link it opens a new browser tab to some other

Re: Adware warning!

2015-04-24 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
So far, I only install software from Apple although when Microsoft Office comes out I'll be getting it. I'll investigate virus anti software in due course. However, I only go to safe websites and touch wood, have not had any problems to date but you don't know what is round the corner. Just

Re: Adware warning!

2015-04-23 Thread Christine Grassman
I asked the Apple tech support rep about whether I should install anything else besides adware Medic and he did not seem to think I needed anything more. I do have to say that no one I know personally who has a Mac has antivirus software, and precious few have had issues. I will look into

RE: Adware warning!

2015-04-23 Thread M. Taylor
Hello Christine, I am so sorry that you had to experience such a, what for many of us, would be a scary thing. You know, a month or so ago, a friend of mine purchased a new MacBook Air. I don't know what she did between the Friday when I set it up and the following Tuesday but when next

Re: Adware warning!

2015-04-23 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
The Adware menace has, unfortunately, spread to the Mac, yes. The good news is that, right now, there are fairly few strains of the stuff, and AdwareMedic is a very good bet on its removal. Antivirus software typically doesn’t identify adware because, while obnoxious in the extreme, it isn’t

Re: Adware warning!

2015-04-23 Thread Ray Foret Jr
First, I know of kno way to use Voice Over at the true route level of the drive itself. Second, I just cannot halp asking. Do you have any sort of anti virus protection on board your system? IF not, for my part, I urge you to consider it. What you get is, of course, up to you: and, there

Re: Adware warning!

2015-04-23 Thread Joe Quinn
That's why I just got booth programs now, will test accessibility when i get to the mac. Sent from my iPhone On Apr 23, 2015, at 6:59 PM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu listse...@me.com wrote: The Adware menace has, unfortunately, spread to the Mac, yes. The good news is that, right now, there are