Bogus emails

Norton Security??!! What is that . . .

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Wasn’t me, and probably wasn’t you.

I didn’t get such an email. How those things work is they look at your email and either just use your email address to send spams everywhere, or they read your address book from a small trojan on your computer and spam everyone.

the first is annoying and impossible to stop.
the second? Download malwarebytes from here:

http://malwarebytes.org/

and run it once or twice. It’s very good at finding sneaky crap on your computer.

ahem…. fact is, debate between mac and pc is my daily basis at work…. as I am computer engineer if you remember well I won’t start to argue about that here let’s just say I can’t stand mac …. for several reasons some of them could be more open to debate than others…

Did you know that, although macintosh is immune to MOST viruses and trojans and spams, it can STILL be an intermediary to broadcast virus to PC which are vulnerable to it… some kind of “healthy host”… that’s worst than having a contaminated PC because you think you are “safe” and indeed you are… but you contaminate all others around you…

Anyway, the problem you face david is a very very common one for me, I have it everydays (i receive mails from myself every day or even several times a day) but my email client , antivirus or firewall know they are “hoax” or “phishing attempts” and treats them as spam directly.

There is a possibility the problem does not come from your computer but from your provider itself whose Mail servers have been corrupted and each time a mail is sent or received there is a tracker/bot to “catch” the recipient address or name … that’s QUITE common lately…

IF there is a possibility that it comes from your PC, then i suggest you use a antiSPYWARE rather than an antivirus… use the “SPYBOT-SD” tool it is a GREAT tool

(and it is totally free) this software can do miracles sometimes, and find dozens of spyware that no regular antivirus (norton, avast, mcafee) would never find or consider as viruses because these are not viruses… these are spywares or malwares..

I hope this helps

Not every computer engineer is mac-averse, however, I noticed a massive increase in popularity (especially in computer science and also among “pure” programmers) over the last years …

Well-timed article for our discussion, (but I know that every corporate environment is different — for gaming, I have switched to consoles even though they are from M$ ): http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/03/survey-macs-cost-notably-less-to-support-than-windows-pcs.ars

I suggest that we forget this topic. Master Mac will raise the white flag and embrace Master Windows…and we are ready for new adventures in the middle earth….

Slightly late coming to this thread, but I swear by Mac every time. I have to use it (the printing/publishing industry wouldn’t touch pcs with a barge-pole, and that’s the field in which I work), and I’ve never had any problems – but I can’t comment on what Master Gildor says about Macs acting as ‘host’ to unwanted garbage, beyond pointing out that it’s not the Mac that’s affected, but rather the inadequately protected pc with which it’s communicating!

I’m told that it’s virtually – or actually (opinons differ) – impossible to write a virus program for a Mac. My brother, who is himself a software writer, has finally (after 30 years) given up with his own pc at home and switched to an iMac, simply because of the frustration of having to combat pc viruses every waking hour of every day.