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Sun Sep 9, 2012 2:36 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
"mpstupinski@snet.net" mstupinski
When I just checked the spam filter of one of my email providers I found a quarantined email, purportedly from my daughter, containing a suspicious link. My email address and those of several others in her address book were the addressees. As I understand it, this simply means that someone has fished her email address and is using it to send the link to others in her address book, but not that her Mac has been infected with anything harmful. Do I have that right?
Also, I don't know of any way to prevent her address from being used that way to send to others in her address book now that the addresses have been harvested.
Any advice on any actions that should be taken at this point?
Thanks
...............Mike
Also, I don't know of any way to prevent her address from being used that way to send to others in her address book now that the addresses have been harvested.
Any advice on any actions that should be taken at this point?
Thanks
............
Sun Sep 9, 2012 5:43 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
"paul smith" waldonny
You are correct.
About all that your daughter can do about the misuse of her email address is to advise recipients to display full email headers for the messages. That will show (to the tech-savvy) that the email in question did not actually originate from your daughter's email account.
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PSmith
MacBook Pro, 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB DDR2 SDRAM, OS 10.8.1 iPhone 4S 64 GB, iOS 5.1.1
On Sep 9, 2012, at 5:36 PM, mpstupinski@snet.net wrote:
> When I just checked the spam filter of one of my email providers I found a quarantined email, purportedly from my daughter, containing a suspicious link. My email address and those of several others in her address book were the addressees. As I understand it, this simply means that someone has fished her email address and is using it to send the link to others in her address book, but not that her Mac has been infected with anything harmful. Do I have that right?
>
> Also, I don't know of any way to prevent her address from being used that way to send to others in her address book now that the addresses have been harvested.
>
> Any advice on any actions that should be taken at this point?
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About all that your daughter can do about the misuse of her email address is to advise recipients to display full email headers for the messages. That will show (to the tech-savvy) that the email in question did not actually originate from your daughter's email account.
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PSmith
MacBook Pro, 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB DDR2 SDRAM, OS 10.8.1 iPhone 4S 64 GB, iOS 5.1.1
On Sep 9, 2012, at 5:36 PM, mpstupinski@
> When I just checked the spam filter of one of my email providers I found a quarantined email, purportedly from my daughter, containing a suspicious link. My email address and those of several others in her address book were the addressees. As I understand it, this simply means that someone has fished her email address and is using it to send the link to others in her address book, but not that her Mac has been infected with anything harmful. Do I have that right?
>
> Also, I don't know of any way to prevent her address from being used that way to send to others in her address book now that the addresses have been harvested.
>
> Any advice on any actions that should be taken at this point?
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Sun Sep 9, 2012 9:47 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
"luvtoso" luvtoso@verizon.net
I've been having this same thing happen. I'm getting email from my SIL and then from my grandson. The post shows their name but when I look closely it's not their email address. I receive two posts like this from a friend.
The posts usually just have a link in them. When I received the first one which was supposedly from my SIL I did click on the link to see what he sent. When I went to the site it was an advertisement for a job on the internet and how you could make a lot of money doing it. I didn't think he would send a link like that and when I took a closer look I saw it was his name but not his email address.
I would also like to know what if anything can be done with this happens.
Gayle
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The posts usually just have a link in them. When I received the first one which was supposedly from my SIL I did click on the link to see what he sent. When I went to the site it was an advertisement for a job on the internet and how you could make a lot of money doing it. I didn't think he would send a link like that and when I took a closer look I saw it was his name but not his email address.
I would also like to know what if anything can be done with this happens.
Gayle
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Sun Sep 9, 2012 9:53 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
"Bob Buscaglia" rbuscag
I usually forward them to spam@uce.gov From their website: What Can I Do With the Spam in my In-Box?
Report it to the Federal Trade Commission. Send a copy of unwanted or deceptive messages to spam@uce.gov. The FTC uses the unsolicited emails stored in this database to pursue law enforcement actions against people who send deceptive spam email.
Bob
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From: luvtoso <luvtoso@verizon.net >
To: macsupportcentral@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, September 9, 2012 11:47 PM
Subject: Re: [macsupport] Address Spoofing?
I've been having this same thing happen. I'm getting email from my SIL and then from my grandson. The post shows their name but when I look closely it's not their email address. I receive two posts like this from a friend.
The posts usually just have a link in them. When I received the first one which was supposedly from my SIL I did click on the link to see what he sent. When I went to the site it was an advertisement for a job on the internet and how you could make a lot of money doing it. I didn't think he would send a link like that and when I took a closer look I saw it was his name but not his email address.
I would also like to know what if anything can be done with this happens.
Gayle
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Report it to the Federal Trade Commission. Send a copy of unwanted or deceptive messages to spam@uce.gov. The FTC uses the unsolicited emails stored in this database to pursue law enforcement actions against people who send deceptive spam email.
Bob
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From: luvtoso <luvtoso@verizon.
To: macsupportcentral@
Sent: Sunday, September 9, 2012 11:47 PM
Subject: Re: [macsupport] Address Spoofing?
I've been having this same thing happen. I'm getting email from my SIL and then from my grandson. The post shows their name but when I look closely it's not their email address. I receive two posts like this from a friend.
The posts usually just have a link in them. When I received the first one which was supposedly from my SIL I did click on the link to see what he sent. When I went to the site it was an advertisement for a job on the internet and how you could make a lot of money doing it. I didn't think he would send a link like that and when I took a closer look I saw it was his name but not his email address.
I would also like to know what if anything can be done with this happens.
Gayle
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Sun Sep 9, 2012 3:10 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
"Denver Dan" denverdan22180
Howdy.
I just uploaded 5 Steve Jobs cartoons to the MacSupportCentral group.
Access via your web browser.
Go to Photos>Apple Cartoons
Denver Dan
I just uploaded 5 Steve Jobs cartoons to the MacSupportCentral group.
Access via your web browser.
Go to Photos>Apple Cartoons
Denver Dan
Sun Sep 9, 2012 3:45 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
"Gabby Walker" terminalatom
At 10:36 PM -0700 9/8/12, Patti A Robertson wrote:
>My macbook pro has slowed down considerably in the last few months.
What operations are slow? Startup? Shutdown? Something in between?
What exactly are you doing when you experience the slow response?
I ask because I hear from a lot of users whose only "slowness
problem" is in Safari.
>My macbook pro has slowed down considerably in the last few months.
What operations are slow? Startup? Shutdown? Something in between?
What exactly are you doing when you experience the slow response?
I ask because I hear from a lot of users whose only "slowness
problem" is in Safari.
Sun Sep 9, 2012 7:27 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
"Randy B. Singer" randybrucesinger
On Sep 9, 2012, at 8:14 AM, Patti A Robertson wrote:
> I had already downloaded the demo of iDefrag and ran it - I think this is the problem - fragmentation - because I have a few chunks of free space, but there are tons of red areas which the help file says are the fragmented ones.
It isn't the fragmented software that's the problem. It's the lack of large free *contiguous* chunks of hard drive space (the white areas) for the system to work with that is the big problem. Once you no longer have enough free contiguous hard drive space, your Mac starts running slower, then becomes flaky, then you start to lose data.
See:
http://www.macattor
Item #6 and Note #1
for a lot more explanation.
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Randy B. Singer
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)
Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
http://www.macattor
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Sun Sep 9, 2012 9:47 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
"Patti A Robertson" parpiano
Yup. I ran iDefrag today - it took about 8 hours - and my computer is back to its speedy self. I'll still try booting in Safe Mode and try a few applications just to see, but I think that fragmentation was the problem. And, my hard drive had been too full, and I deleted a bunch of stuff, which probably contributed to the frag thing.
Thanks SO much for the help!
BTW, to the person who asked what was slow - everything was. If I had nothing at all running, just after a restart, and opened a word doc or Excel file, I'd get the spinning beach ball.
Patti
On Sep 9, 2012, at 7:27 PM, Randy B. Singer wrote:
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> On Sep 9, 2012, at 8:14 AM, Patti A Robertson wrote:
>
> > I had already downloaded the demo of iDefrag and ran it - I think this is the problem - fragmentation - because I have a few chunks of free space, but there are tons of red areas which the help file says are the fragmented ones.
>
> It isn't the fragmented software that's the problem. It's the lack of large free *contiguous* chunks of hard drive space (the white areas) for the system to work with that is the big problem. Once you no longer have enough free contiguous hard drive space, your Mac starts running slower, then becomes flaky, then you start to lose data.
>
> See:
> http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html
> Item #6 and Note #1
> for a lot more explanation.
>
> ___________________________________________
> Randy B. Singer
> Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)
>
> Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
> http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html
> ___________________________________________
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Thanks SO much for the help!
BTW, to the person who asked what was slow - everything was. If I had nothing at all running, just after a restart, and opened a word doc or Excel file, I'd get the spinning beach ball.
Patti
On Sep 9, 2012, at 7:27 PM, Randy B. Singer wrote:
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> On Sep 9, 2012, at 8:14 AM, Patti A Robertson wrote:
>
> > I had already downloaded the demo of iDefrag and ran it - I think this is the problem - fragmentation - because I have a few chunks of free space, but there are tons of red areas which the help file says are the fragmented ones.
>
> It isn't the fragmented software that's the problem. It's the lack of large free *contiguous* chunks of hard drive space (the white areas) for the system to work with that is the big problem. Once you no longer have enough free contiguous hard drive space, your Mac starts running slower, then becomes flaky, then you start to lose data.
>
> See:
> http://www.macattor
> Item #6 and Note #1
> for a lot more explanation.
>
> ____________
> Randy B. Singer
> Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)
>
> Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
> http://www.macattor
> ____________
>
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Sun Sep 9, 2012 11:01 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
"Randy B. Singer" randybrucesinger
On Sep 9, 2012, at 9:47 PM, Patti A Robertson wrote:
> Yup. I ran iDefrag today - it took about 8 hours - and my computer is back to its speedy self. I'll still try booting in Safe Mode and try a few applications just to see, but I think that fragmentation was the problem. And, my hard drive had been too full, and I deleted a bunch of stuff, which probably contributed to the frag thing.
Excellent! I'm glad that your Mac is all better.
You know, I've helped a large number of folks with this exact same problem, and it always manifests and is fixed the same way. But there are a number of Mac users, including several very well known Macintosh "authorities" who will tell you that what happened to you doesn't happen, and that the solution that you used doesn't work. You are now a bigger expert than they are!
>
> Thanks SO much for the help!
My pleasure!
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Randy B. Singer
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)
Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
http://www.macattor
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Mon Sep 10, 2012 2:01 am (PDT) . Posted by:
"Les Streater" linernutuk
Out of interest, do you prefer iDefrag to using Tech Tools Pro or Drive Genius or similar?
Is there an "under-the-bonnet/hood" difference to the way these work that makes one better than the other?
Having read several rather worrying reviews about iDefrag freezing drives and causing corruption, I am a little nervous!
Thanks for any guidance
Les
Is there an "under-the-bonnet/
Having read several rather worrying reviews about iDefrag freezing drives and causing corruption, I am a little nervous!
Thanks for any guidance
Les
Mon Sep 10, 2012 2:23 am (PDT) . Posted by:
"Randy B. Singer" randybrucesinger
On Sep 10, 2012, at 2:01 AM, Les Streater wrote:
> Out of interest, do you prefer iDefrag to using Tech Tools Pro or Drive Genius or similar?
>
> Is there an "under-the-bonnet/
I cover this on my web site:
http://www.macattor
Note#1
In short, I don't recommend any defragmentation utility other than iDefrag. It's the only one that does a smart defragmentation. Any other such utility might actually slow your Mac down.
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> Having read several rather worrying reviews about iDefrag freezing drives and causing corruption, I am a little nervous!
Please share your citations for those reports. iDefrag has been on the market for many years now, and I've never had anyone report any such problems. (Note that I've had well over a million users visit my Web site.)
I can tell you that defragmenting a hard drive is a very disk intensive operation. If you have a hard drive that is already on its last legs, the operation might drive it over the edge. You may have noticed that a number of users always seem to report that upgrading to a new version of the Mac OS killed their hard drive. It's the same thing. Many users try upgrading their OS, or defragmenting their hard drive, to cure a Mac that is acting flaky. (The flaky behavior being a sign that their hard drive was already about to fail.) So, you would expect a certain number of hard drive failures when using iDefrag. The recommendation is that you have an up-to-date backup of your drive before running iDefrag.
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Randy B. Singer
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)
Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
http://www.macattor
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Mon Sep 10, 2012 2:27 am (PDT) . Posted by:
"Josephine Bacon" baconandeggs_2001
I don't know if anyone on this forum can help me, my Brother colour printer (DCP315-CN) has stopped working and gives me the message "cannot perform cleaning, check troubleshooting in the manual". Well, of course the manual disappeared eons ago. Is there anywhere on the net that will give me advice?
Josephine Bacon
Josephine Bacon
Mon Sep 10, 2012 2:39 am (PDT) . Posted by:
"Randy B. Singer" randybrucesinger
On Sep 10, 2012, at 2:27 AM, Josephine Bacon wrote:
> I don't know if anyone on this forum can help me, my Brother colour printer (DCP315-CN) has stopped working and gives me the message "cannot perform cleaning, check troubleshooting in the manual". Well, of course the manual disappeared eons ago. Is there anywhere on the net that will give me advice?
You can download the manual here:
http://is.gd/
On page 6-2 it says that the "cause" and "action" for that error message are:
> The machine has a mechanical problem. �OR� A foreign obstacle such as a clip or ripped paper is in the machine.
>
> Open the scanner cover and remove any foreign obstacles inside the machine. If the error message continues, disconnect the machine from the power source for several minutes then reconnect it.
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Randy B. Singer
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)
Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
http://www.macattor
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Mon Sep 10, 2012 2:44 am (PDT) . Posted by:
"Graham Wizardo" diagraphicsuk
TRy looking on brothers site heres the web addy
http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/Public/CountryTop.aspx?reg=us&c=us&lang=en
or alternatively email them
Graham
----- Original Message -----
From: Josephine Bacon
To: macsupportcentral@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 10:27 AM
Subject: Re: [macsupport] printer has stopped working
I don't know if anyone on this forum can help me, my Brother colour printer (DCP315-CN) has stopped working and gives me the message "cannot perform cleaning, check troubleshooting in the manual". Well, of course the manual disappeared eons ago. Is there anywhere on the net that will give me advice?
Josephine Bacon
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http://welcome.
or alternatively email them
Graham
----- Original Message -----
From: Josephine Bacon
To: macsupportcentral@
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 10:27 AM
Subject: Re: [macsupport] printer has stopped working
I don't know if anyone on this forum can help me, my Brother colour printer (DCP315-CN) has stopped working and gives me the message "cannot perform cleaning, check troubleshooting in the manual". Well, of course the manual disappeared eons ago. Is there anywhere on the net that will give me advice?
Josephine Bacon
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Sun Sep 9, 2012 7:03 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
"Jim Saklad" jimdoc01
>>>>> I have tried different combinations and they don't work. Anyone have any idea about how to do that?
>>>>
>>>> 1. Mission control -- click on the space you want.
>>>> 2. <Control><number of the space>
>>>> 3. <Control><left or right arrow> (are these keys not present on your Air?)
>>>
>>> <option> + L or R Arrow keys work well on my MBP to change to next/previous desktop. Unfortunately it does not loop around.
>>
>> On my Macbook Pro <Control><arrow keys> changes Spaces, and <Option><arrow keys> does nothing.
>> Jim Saklad
>
> Jim and Les - Keyboard preferences show the settings I described with the Option key + arrows. It's possible that I changed it years ago to that combination, but AFAIK, I'm using the default settings. The good news is that it's completely configurable.
The default on my computer has always been as I stated: <Control><arrow keys> changes Spaces.
Apple seems to think the same:
<http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1624 >
> Switching between Spaces
> Keyboard commands
> By default, Control-arrow will switch you one Space in the direction of the arrow selected. For example, Control-right arrow will switch you one Space to the right.
>
> You can switch to a specific Space by using a Control-number key combination. For example, Control-1 will switch you to Space 1.
I believe this is for Lion, but my experience has been the same in Mountain Lion.
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Jim Saklad mailto:jimdoc@me.com
>>>>
>>>> 1. Mission control -- click on the space you want.
>>>> 2. <Control><number of the space>
>>>> 3. <Control><left or right arrow> (are these keys not present on your Air?)
>>>
>>> <option> + L or R Arrow keys work well on my MBP to change to next/previous desktop. Unfortunately it does not loop around.
>>
>> On my Macbook Pro <Control><arrow keys> changes Spaces, and <Option><arrow keys> does nothing.
>> Jim Saklad
>
> Jim and Les - Keyboard preferences show the settings I described with the Option key + arrows. It's possible that I changed it years ago to that combination, but AFAIK, I'm using the default settings. The good news is that it's completely configurable.
The default on my computer has always been as I stated: <Control><arrow keys> changes Spaces.
Apple seems to think the same:
<http://support.
> Switching between Spaces
> Keyboard commands
> By default, Control-arrow will switch you one Space in the direction of the arrow selected. For example, Control-right arrow will switch you one Space to the right.
>
> You can switch to a specific Space by using a Control-number key combination. For example, Control-1 will switch you to Space 1.
I believe this is for Lion, but my experience has been the same in Mountain Lion.
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Jim Saklad mailto:jimdoc@me.com
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