macbook users?????

[esmecullen]

It appears that my email could have been compromised...........my email has been throwing out weird emails left, right and centre to all on my contacts.............have clamxav virus scan installed on the mac............but when I've run the scan nothing is showing as potentially virusy

quite stumped ..........anyone experienced in mac's?????? TIA

[J_Mac]

Macs don't really get viruses. It sounds like your email account has been hacked, someone has got your password. Try changing it to something very complicated with capital/lower case and numbers and see if the problem goes away.

[Hampton]

Jun 8, 2013 8:01:08 GMT J_Mac said:

Macs don't really get viruses.

Don't believe the hype. They can and do!

[esmecullen]

Jun 8, 2013 8:01:08 GMT J_Mac said:

Macs don't really get viruses. It sounds like your email account has been hacked, someone has got your password. Try changing it to something very complicated with capital/lower case and numbers and see if the problem goes away.

yeah have done that and hope it will do the trick.........thanks

[J_Mac]

Jun 9, 2013 22:36:25 GMT Hampton said:

Jun 8, 2013 8:01:08 GMT J_Mac said:

Macs don't really get viruses.

Don't believe the hype. They can and do!

Must be a rarity then, my friends & I have been running them for over 5 years without problem. I'll have a look into that. Which type of virus did you get?

[shamreez]

Macs do get viruses.

Initially there were hardly any mac users that the people who created viruses did not want to to take the trouble to go behind them.
(As most of the these people target people who are not that good with computers and apple only had their fan boy nerd crowds in the beginning)

Once apple started coming to a broader audience the viruses went there too and they myth was busted

[izan]

Who is your email provider? The device you use to access your email should be irrelevant.

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[J_Mac]

Interesting stuff, I'm gonna nerd up on this

[esmecullen]

Jun 10, 2013 8:54:53 GMT izan said:

Who is your email provider? The device you use to access your email should be irrelevant.

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Its BT Yahoo

Have done a through scan & clean up, changed passwords and hope that will do the trick

[Deleted]

Mac's can and do indeed get virus's especially if you disable the security settings so you can install downloaded packages from sources other than the app store.

Windows is just a more popular platform as it was so widely used, and windows has to accommodate a vast array of different hardware specifications so it's easier for security holes to become present and taken advantage of, mac's tend to have much less loopholes as the operating system is created for specific hardware.

[Hampton]

Jun 13, 2013 17:22:45 GMT digiw0rx said:

Windows is just a more popular platform as it was so widely used, and windows has to accommodate a vast array of different hardware specifications so it's easier for security holes to become present and taken advantage of, mac's tend to have much less loopholes as the operating system is created for specific hardware.

Very true digiw0rx. A marked changing point was when Motorola was ditched and Intel came on the scene.

[Deleted]

Jul 4, 2013 7:31:38 GMT Hampton said:

Jun 13, 2013 17:22:45 GMT digiw0rx said:

Windows is just a more popular platform as it was so widely used, and windows has to accommodate a vast array of different hardware specifications so it's easier for security holes to become present and taken advantage of, mac's tend to have much less loopholes as the operating system is created for specific hardware.

Very true digiw0rx. A marked changing point was when Motorola was ditched and Intel came on the scene.

Indeed. It made it easier to erm build a compatible PC.

[fred]

Jun 11, 2013 7:46:29 GMT esmecullen said:

Jun 10, 2013 8:54:53 GMT izan said:

Who is your email provider? The device you use to access your email should be irrelevant.

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Its BT Yahoo

Have done a through scan & clean up, changed passwords and hope that will do the trick

Herein lies the problem.

The amount of garbage emails I have had from people who use BT Yahoo email recently.
They are the people who use the "special button" to access their emails, which I believe is a shortcut that takes them to a slightly different web-page to access their email accounts, via Internet Explorer.

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In fact, did BT not recently announce that they would no longer be outsourcining their email to Yahoo, due to the security issues?

[esmecullen]

Jul 4, 2013 8:02:30 GMT fred said:

Jun 11, 2013 7:46:29 GMT esmecullen said:

Its BT Yahoo

Have done a through scan & clean up, changed passwords and hope that will do the trick

Herein lies the problem.

The amount of garbage emails I have had from people who use BT Yahoo email recently.
They are the people who use the "special button" to access their emails, which I believe is a shortcut that takes them to a slightly different web-page to access their email accounts, via Internet Explorer.

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In fact, did BT not recently announce that they would no longer be outsourcining their email to Yahoo, due to the security issues?

To tell truth Fred.............I havent a clue if they are or not..............anyways since changing password, etc all seems ok now...........

[izan]

Jul 4, 2013 7:39:26 GMT digiw0rx said:

Jul 4, 2013 7:31:38 GMT Hampton said:

Very true digiw0rx. A marked changing point was when Motorola was ditched and Intel came on the scene.

Indeed. It made it easier to erm build a compatible PC.

..and the mac would now be vulnerable to X86 instructions from which they have been previously immune...
just to finish your thought.
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