Macs and viruses

2016-11-18 Thread Bill Spencer
Hi there: My wife has lately been getting spam emails, allegedly from her email provider, which include links to click to resolve "problems"--you know the drill. She has not taken the bait, but when I contacted the provider on her behalf to triple-check that her account is still in the clear, I

Re: Macs and viruses

2016-11-18 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 18, 2016, at 7:02 AM, Bill Spencer mailto:wspen...@jhu.edu>> wrote: Hi there: My wife has lately been getting spam emails, allegedly from her email provider, which include links to click to resolve "problems"--you know the drill. She has not taken the bait, but when I contacted the prov

Re: Macs and viruses

2016-11-18 Thread Russell Courtenay
Great info for all of us especially coming from a professional environment, Bruce, thanks. Priorities are important in data security. Even on Windows the only virus I ever had was the 'kak.worm' many years ago, and it didn't infect anything because I was still using text only for my email. It

Re: Macs and viruses

2016-11-18 Thread N. Shani
Bill et al, The ISP is NOT doing its job! I work for one (local, not-for-profit) and we educate our members to ensure that their OS firewalls are up, run a test to see if any router ports are accessible from the outside (we use https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2, but I'm sure there are other te

Re: Macs and viruses

2016-11-18 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 18, 2016, at 9:46 AM, Russell Courtenay mailto:unknownid...@gmail.com>> wrote: This modern ransomware threat is scary, I have a separate, removable external hard drive for weekly backup for this reason on the PC server, just wish I could get Windows to recognize the mirrored raid on th