Re: Security.

Thanks Steve. Tony Sent from my iPhone > On 6 Jan 2020, at 12:21, Stephen Chape wrote: > > Hi Tony. > I am not sure what you would like an alternative to ? > > But MalwareBytes is very popular. > > However I prefer to pay for Avast Pro as it seems to have done a better job > than anything

Re: Security.

Hi Tony. I am not sure what you would like an alternative to ? But MalwareBytes is very popular. However I prefer to pay for Avast Pro as it seems to have done a better job than anything I have used. You can buy a 1 Mac version or for a few dollars more a 3 Mac version. I use the 3 Mac for

Re: Security.

Good Morning to the Group and a Happy 2020 to you all As advised I removed Malware from my Computer, are there any of the group that would recommend a trusted alternative?? I am also now using DuckDuck Go. Thanks All Kind Regards Tony BODDINGTON.-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List

Re: Security Update 2018-001

Dear Ronni, Thank you for your reply. I do not remember deleting the folder I had which was called “Desktop Folders”, but all sorts of wierd and troubling things happened when I first tried to installl the security update and tried to update the operating system as well, a few weeks ago.

Re: Security Update 2018-001

Hello Michael, I am still having trouble not receiving WAMUG mailing list messages, so I’ve copied & pasted your message below, so I can answer. Have you moved the original ‘Desktop Folders’ that you created? Have you deleted the original ‘Desktop Folders’? The Dock just holds aliases to real

Re: Security

You got it! Being too subtle do you think? Brian On 19 May 2017, at 16:43, Michael Hawkins wrote: Brian, I infer from the graphics that you feel you are swimming against the tide? Michael Sent from my iPhone > On 19 May 2017, at 3:52 pm, Brian RISBEY

Re: Security

Brian, I infer from the graphics that you feel you are swimming against the tide? Michael Sent from my iPhone > On 19 May 2017, at 3:52 pm, Brian RISBEY wrote: > > Hi Ronni > Daniel's text message was in an Asian language. I just was inquiring to if it > was supposed to

Re: Security

Just a thought, if you use more than one language, Command-blank will move you down your language list, and it's easy to accidentally press Command-blank. (If you mouse to the language in your menu bar, just left of the date, it will tick whatever the system thinks is your current input

Re: Security

Hi Daniel and Brian, I’ve had a good look at Brian’s email message that showed as garbled foreign text & symbols. I’m not sure if the problem is with Brian’s ISP (Bigpond) handling of the message sending, encoding, or virus scan? I compared Daniel’s message All Headers to Brian’s reply All

Re: Security

Hi Brian Nope,….just English (Australia) and English (UK). Then all the other English after that. :) Same as I’ve always used to post on both computer and iPhone. :) Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 7 --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: Web:

Re: Security

Thank you David and Ronni I had all the English languages in order with Australian at the top, Simplified Chinese was just after all the various English languages. A mystery... I wonder if Daniel has the same? Brian Risbey OS10.3.2  On 19 May 2017, at 16:17, David Noel

Re: Security

Hi Brian The message was mostly in Simplified Chinese Mandarin characters, but there were many invalid characters, and the message was not in Mandarin. You are probably right that it was a wrong font setting. I received the message in English, it was as following: "Hi Bill Just in with client,

Re: Security

Hi Brian, On your iPhone Settings> General >Language & Region - iPhone Language English and Region Australia? Click on English, do you have all English listed at the top of the list? English (Australia) English (Canada) etc Apps, websites, menus, and other items use the first language in the

Re: Security

Hi Ronni Daniel's text message was in an Asian language. I just was inquiring to if it was supposed to be or if I have a wrong font setting in my iPhone6. Brian Risbey OS10.3.2  On 19 May 2017, at 13:47, Ronni Brown wrote: Hi Brian, You can still open any app by

Re: Security

Hi Brian, You can still open any app by right-click (Control-Click) its icon, choosing Open, and then confirming that you want to open it. So you are not prevented from opening any apps, you are simply protected against opening apps from unidentified developers. Cheers, Ronni > On 19 May

Re: Security

Hi Daniel Could not quite understand your message  Brian Risbey OS10.3.2  On 19 May 2017, at 12:11, Daniel Kerr wrote: (鴢(鴣!吂�(鴣秸壉攣嵄瑏搅暩佈仚ケ攣选暩亜佂祬卑佂嵣晻竵吜習吷虂吂悂呁佈紒ス脱叡皝选呇虂荨暩佈伭山壉暣佂褏裳虂萁笣衼澕伭呁衼蜁嵳丧唁伭山褧嵮ソ竵祬鍓攣$佂〗毡悂櫏箰亝竵亮睌亯胀ス曂虂吂悂羺鋪鸭仭呝攣バ仴雇褏北晲�(鴣I暆吷懱�

Re: Security

Hi Bill Just in with client, which is why quick replies (as just wanting for some software to install and quickly checking email between installs). After you double click the DMG and then it opens a Finder window. Before you click anything else, that is where you need to hold down the Option

Re: Security

Hi Daniel Double click open the file then a small screen appears and asks to install thats when the problem starts won't go past security protection maybe I should find an Apple business and pay to have it installed. Regards Bill On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 12:00 PM, Daniel Kerr

Re: Security

Hi Bill If it’s a standard DMG file, then you should just be able to double click it and it will open. Then you can do the “right click” part to open the Application. e.g., something like Handbrake does the same thing (as it’s not set to open, but you can still run it) - https://handbrake.fr

Re: Security

Thanks Daniel It is a DMG file and right or control click does not work. Regards Bill On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 11:25 AM, Daniel Kerr wrote: > Hi Bill or Juliet > > If you’re sure it’s an Application that is safe, you can right click on > the Application (or Control

Re: Security

Hi Bill or Juliet If you’re sure it’s an Application that is safe, you can right click on the Application (or Control click on it) to bring up the contextual menu, then choose “Open”. This will then ask if you want to open it with a “warning”. You can then choose “Open” and it will allow you

Re: Security

Thanks Ronni I am using Sierra the software is from a site I used quite a while ago it is a dvd copy app. m-dvd copy-2 for-mac-dmg. Regards Bill On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 11:04 AM, Ronni Brown wrote: > Hello Juliet, > > What operating system are you using? If it is macOS Sierra. >

Re: Security

Hello Juliet, What operating system are you using? If it is macOS Sierra. Gatekeeper in macOS Sierra is now stricter than ever, defaulting to only allow options for apps downloaded from either the App Store or the App Store and identified developers. Advanced Mac users may wish to allow a

Re: Security Update

Yep … mine was done automatically ! On 23 Dec 2014, at 9:33 pm, Brian Risbey risb...@bigpond.com wrote: Hi All, there is an OS X NTP Security Update. found out via MacRumors.com http://macrumors.com/ Apple today released a new security update that’s designed to address a critical

Re: Security questions for Apple ID ?

Thank you Ronni, All fixed now. I had to speak with Apple Support because her AID had no rescue email. They were very helpful ! On 12 Feb 2014, at 1:35 pm, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Stephen, Rescue email address and how to reset Apple ID security questions If you can't recall your

Re: Security questions for Apple ID ?

Hi Stephen Try logging in to appleid.apple.com and then Manage Apple ID. You may be able to adjust the security questions from there. Short of that, you can call Apple Support and they generally will help you adjust those questions. (Apple are 133-622). But only someone with access to the

Re: Security questions for Apple ID ?

Hi Stephen, Rescue email address and how to reset Apple ID security questions If you can't recall your Apple ID security questions and answers, the optional rescue email provides a way to reset them. Additionally, all future security-related emails for your Apple ID will be sent to the rescue

Re: Security questions for Apple ID ?

Thank you Ronni. Maybe I gave my email as the rescue address. I will check that. If not can a rescue address still be added or will we still have the same issue logging in to do that ? On 12 Feb 2014, at 1:35 pm, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Stephen, Rescue email address and how to

Re: Security Update 2011-005 available

According to the linked AppleInsider article, the update removes DigiNotar from the list of trusted root certificates, because multiple certificate authorities operated by DigiNotar have been issuing fraudulent certificates.

Re: Security message from router meaning?

Hi Ray, I am not an expert in this field, but letters DOS usually stand for denial of service attack. China Unicom is the second or third largest service provider in China, so one of their millions of subscribers appears to have launched a DOS attack on your IP address, the large numbers, 8

Re: Security message from router meaning?

Hi Ray, DOS is 'DoS Denial of Service’ Your Netgear Router’s message is telling you that the attacks to Ports 9090, 8008, 3246, 8123, 7212, 5390 have been ‘dropped’ blocked at your ISP 59.100.232.117. If your wireless Network is using WPA2 security, your information is concealed from

Re: Security on Networks

Thanks Daniel Worked like a charm Gerald Lloyd On 14/09/2010, at 7:12 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Hi Gerald Are you trying to set a password in System Preferences/Network (which is the wrong way to do it), or are you using a web browser (eg Safari or Firefox etc) to access the Netgear Web

Re: Security on Networks

Thanks Ronda set it from Netgear site - now working!! Gerald Lloyd On 14/09/2010, at 5:32 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 14/09/2010, at 4:08 PM, localadmin wrote: Hi all I have Netgear for my broadband Each time I go into security to put a password on it, it says it has but when I check

Re: Security on Networks

On 14/09/2010, at 4:08 PM, localadmin wrote: Hi all I have Netgear for my broadband Each time I go into security to put a password on it, it says it has but when I check the ones available it is still showing security - none I go into Advanced double click on Netgear then

Re: Security on Networks

Hi Gerald Are you trying to set a password in System Preferences/Network (which is the wrong way to do it), or are you using a web browser (eg Safari or Firefox etc) to access the Netgear Web Admin page (which is normally 192.168.0.1 with login details admin/password). You can also find more

Re: Security Update and Safari

Funny I've had safari do that with .html and .divx files (and others I guess but not zip's tar's and pdf's) for the last few months (at least since December then it STOPED doing it about the same time as I ran the latest security patches this week. Since installing the Security Update

Re: Security certificates

Hi, On 06/05/06, Severin Crisp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Buying from a secure site with Safari I got the message that the site was not recognised because it had not renewed its security certificate. How do these work? Computers need some way of establishing 'trust between a client and a

Re: Security certificates

Sorry, just to clarify: - The site certificates are presented *to* your browser *from* the website. They expire if the website operator fails to renew them. They can also be revoked (but this should have a different alert message). - Your browser trusts the site certificate if it was issued by a

Re: Security Update 2004-09-16 Out!

[This is a follow-up from an old message about the time between the 'announcement' of an Apple security update and the subsequent availability of patches to fix the vulnerabilities...] In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 12:11:47PM +0800, Shay Telfer wrote: In message [EMAIL

Re: Security Update 2004-10-27

--- Richard Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now available via Software Update: Security Update 2004-10-27 delivers a number of security enhancements and is recommended for all Macintosh users. This update includes the following component: Apple Remote Desktop Hi I do not know if it is

Re: Security Update 2004-10-27

I would be very interested if a more script savvy person could translate as whether it means using a Nortons on this? It's a 'rootkit' (used to install backdoors into a machine once its security has been compromised). There is no known way for it to get onto your machine in the first

Re: Security Update 2004-09-16 Out!

Not coming up on any of the 3 machines at hand but can see the release details at apple and on versiontracker. Now available via Software Update: Security Update 2004-09-16 delivers a number of security enhancements and is recommended for all Macintosh users. This update includes the

Re: Security Update 2004-09-16 Out!

In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 11:51:45AM +0800, Mark Secker wrote: Not coming up on any of the 3 machines at hand but can see the release details at apple and on versiontracker. Does anyone know why this is? It often happens that the announcement e-mails, the Apple

Re: Security Update 2004-09-16 Out!

On 17/09/2004, at 11:51 AM, Mark Secker wrote: Not coming up on any of the 3 machines at hand but can see the release details at apple and on versiontracker. SNIP Downloaded it and installed it with no problems on this faithful iBook G4 1GHz. I think we went through this once before ...

Re: Security Update 2004-09-16 Out!

In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 11:59:12AM +0800, James Devenish wrote: Is it just a slow propagation of updates, By the way, in the past, I have found that the appearance of updates can vary from machine to machine. Maybe some form of caching phenomenon, but that really

Re: Security Update 2004-09-16 Out!

On 17/09/2004, at 12:03 PM, James Devenish wrote: By the way, in the past, I have found that the appearance of updates can vary from machine to machine. Maybe some form of caching phenomenon, but that really shouldn't be the case. I had imagined that the software update server system might

Re: Security Update 2004-09-16 Out!

In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 11:59:12AM +0800, James Devenish wrote: Is it just a slow propagation of updates, Rolling out a distributed update across hundreds of thousands of machines over the entire planet is not a trivial thing to do. It's not going to be

Re: Security Update 2004-09-16 Out!

On 17/09/2004, at 12:08 PM, Richard Kay wrote: On 17/09/2004, at 12:03 PM, James Devenish wrote: By the way, in the past, I have found that the appearance of updates can vary from machine to machine. Maybe some form of caching phenomenon, but that really shouldn't be the case. I had

Re: Security Update 2004-09-16 Out!

In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 12:11:47PM +0800, Shay Telfer wrote: What do you mean by 'slow' exactly? Less than 24 hours? Definitely more than 24 hours, but less than a week (actually, I thought it was near a week on one occasion, but I cannot find any convenient records

Re: Security Update 2004-09-16 Out!

Rolling out a distributed update across hundreds of thousands of machines over the entire planet is not a trivial thing to do. It's not going to be simultaneous for every user. Nor is that necessarily desirable. this is probably the issue (not even really an issue for me just a curio).

Re: Security Update 2004-09-16 Out!

In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 12:11:47PM +0800, Shay Telfer wrote: Rolling out a distributed update across hundreds of thousands of machines over the entire planet is not a trivial thing to do. It's not going to be simultaneous for every user. Nor is that necessarily

Re: Security Update 2004-09-16 Out!

maybe updater's smarter than we give it credit for... I manually downloaded the update from Apple Support site and when attempting to run it it told me that I did not require the update. probably because it applies to iChat which I don't install on work computers. problem solved by being

Re: Security Update 2004-09-16 Out!

By the way, Debian Linux seems to do this pretty well. Surely there are millions of Debian machines spread across the entire planet, with multiple hardware architectures to support, too (although I only have experience with a couple). Except when there has been a delay in initiating the release

Re: Security Update 2004-09-16 Out!

In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 01:32:30PM +0800, Shay Telfer wrote: The users of Debian can download updates themselves if the automatic updating isn't working. So could Mac users, *except* that Apple's support website doesn't necessarily reflect the status of Apple's

Re: Security Update 2004-09-07 Revision 1.1

On 14/09/2004, at 4:55 PM, Richard Kay wrote: Apple has released a revision to its 2004-09-07 Security Update, numbered 1.1, which reportedly fixes a widespread, previously reported FTP connectivity issue. The problem, which disabled FTP capabilities for a number of users on both Mac OS X

Re: Security Update 2004-09-07 Revision 1.1

On 15/09/2004, at 8:11 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Anyone else experiencing this Security Update 2004-09-07 v1.1 showing in Software Update after being downloaded installed computer restarted? I've also installed it again from the package in Library, but it is still showing in Software Update.

Re: Security Update 2004-09-07 Revision 1.1

I had not noticed, but having just checked YES you are correct. I too have it still listed in updates to download. WHY IS THIS SO ? On 15/09/2004, at 8:11 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 14/09/2004, at 4:55 PM, Richard Kay wrote: Apple has released a revision to its 2004-09-07 Security Update,

Re: Security Update 2004-09-07 Revision 1.1

Worked fine for me! -- John Winters Phone +61 8 9367 9277 Fax +61 8 9367 9244 [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Stephen Chape [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 19:58:59 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: Security Update 2004-09-07 Revision 1.1 I had not noticed

Re: Security Update 2004-09-07 Revision 1.1

Thanks Richard, I had tried both of these suggestions Security Update 2004-09-07 was still showing in Software Update. So I Shutdown my iBook, went did some gardening . when I returned and booted up my iBook, checked Software Update and Security Update 2004-09-07 v.1.1 was no longer

Re: Security flaw in Mac OS X

Rob,Why put this on the web rather than inform Apple directly? or am I missing something. I will be very interested to hear Shay's comments because of a long history of computer companies burying such exploits unless there is a general community (well general technical community) going we

Re: Security flaw in Mac OS X

Rob,Why put this on the web rather than inform Apple directly? or am I missing something. I will be very interested to hear Shay's comments Mac I'm sure Apple already knows about it as it's already done the rounds of Macintouch etc. Yes, it's a security hole :) Also relatively easily

Re: Security flaw in Mac OS X

I thought I better be the first on the block http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/17/1646216 This is actually pretty scary! my business partner wrote a webpage in about 5 minutes to demonstrate the vulnerability. It's here if you want to see it in action (promise nothing bad happens)

Re: Security flaw in Mac OS X

wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: Security flaw in Mac OS X Rob,Why put this on the web rather than inform Apple directly? or am I missing something. I will be very interested to hear Shay's comments because of a long history of computer companies burying such exploits unless

Re: Security flaw in Mac OS X

On 20/5/04 1:18 PM, Tim Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, My problem may be unconnected, but just in case, others need to be warned... Because Rob is a 'trusted person' on the list, I clicked on the link to the script, as others appear to have done too. The script ran, and yes I was

Re: Security flaw in Mac OS X

Hi Everyone, On Thursday, May 20, 2004, at 05:05 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: It's here if you want to see it in action (promise nothing bad happens) http://www.mactherapy.com/AppleScript.html There is another page linked from the article which does something similar. Apple better fix

Re: Security flaw in Mac OS X

I followed the links in the slashdot article to MoreInternet http://www.monkeyfood.com/software/moreInternet/ and then changed the help: protocol helper to Safari. When I try Rob's link above, it just annoyingly opens another browser window, but doesn't do anything malicious. That should do

Re: Security flaw in Mac OS X

On 20/5/04 2:53 PM, Shay Telfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I followed the links in the slashdot article to MoreInternet http://www.monkeyfood.com/software/moreInternet/ and then changed the help: protocol helper to Safari. When I try Rob's link above, it just annoyingly opens another

Re: Security Update Issue

Michel, et al, Curious whether this security update has/is still causing problems? Wanted to update, but feeling a bit uneasy if it is going to shut me out of my PowerBook! Regards, Kent On 11/6/03 4:36 PM, Michael Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apple released a security update yesterday

Re: Security Update Issue

Michel, et al, Curious whether this security update has/is still causing problems? Wanted to update, but feeling a bit uneasy if it is going to shut me out of my PowerBook! Regards, Kent They've re-released the security update to fix that problem. It's amazing the difference 2 bytes can