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Yet another Phishing attempt!

March 12, 2012

This one came with American Express logos, but the Reply-To address was a dead givaway. I left links off, as they were clearly fraudlent. This is a much cruder attempt than the Apple one referred to in my last post. I’m feeling a bit like Charlie Tuna these days. Fraud Protection Alert. Cardholder, For your [...]

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Another phishing alert for Apple users

March 12, 2012

I just got an email, from the Apple Store (so it appeared) that scared the blazes out of me. It said that my order for over $4,000 had been charged to my credit card… and I didn’t even place an order. A link was provided to view the order, but before I clicked it (my [...]

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The phishermen are trying to hook US!

March 2, 2012

I just received an email, purportedly from Intuit thanking me for a purchase, with a link to download my complete order at “Intuit small business website.” The email was from INTUIT INC. at noreply@careerbuilder.com, which didn’t look right, and clicking on the link to download the “order” fortunately went to a “Account Suspended” page. The [...]

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New strain of Mac Flashback Trojan horse – serious threat

February 23, 2012

Macworld posted this morning that Intego has discovered a new threat, a very insidious trojan horse that’s infected “many Mac users.” Please read the article… I’m not going to copy it here, but the last part provides a way to tell if you’ve been infected and I will include that. Also, Intego’s VirusBarrier X6 app [...]

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Warning! 10.7 Lion possible data loss

February 23, 2012

A bug in the way Mac OS X 10.7 Lion handles the file system could cause data loss. Please be careful to avoid this! If you have a folder containing a file with the same name as the folder, and drag the file to the same location as the folder, both items may be deleted. [...]

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A new trick for old dogs

January 11, 2012

OK, it’s an old trick, but I was reminded of it today. It’s particularly useful with Lion. I for one do NOT like the light grey text used all too frequently, but it’s easy to read when you simply press Control-Option-Command-8. This changes the viewing mode to white-on-black, so instead of trying to read grey [...]

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Force Quit the current iOS app

December 22, 2011

I just saw this tip in an email from MacMost, and had to pass it along… it’s too good to miss. There is a way to force quit an iOS app on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch without ever leaving the app. Hold down the sleep/wake button at the top of your device until [...]

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Force an application to quit – the easy way

November 21, 2011

I subscribe to Mac Tip of the Week from Peachpit Press, and this week they had such a good one I have to share. Force an Application to Quit To give you a menu choice to force an application to quit, Option-press (don’t click) that application’s icon in the Dock. Of course, the Command-Option-Escape key [...]

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iTunes Match – use it to upgrade your tracks

November 18, 2011

Have you downloaded the newest version of iTunes, and set up iTunes Match yet? I did the other day, with trepedation and caution, but it worked out pretty well. I have about 20,000 tracks in my iTunes library, so I haven’t set up my iPhone or iPad to use Match yet, but that’s the next [...]

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DevilRobber Trojan disguised as PixelMator

November 17, 2011

A new attempt to steal data from Mac users is a bot called DevilRobber. The original version ran embedded in versions of Graphic Converter, but this one only pretends to be PixelMator, and contains none of the legitimate PixelMator code. This new variant tries to steal and generate Bitcoins as the original did, but it [...]

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