Susan, just got an email "from you" which I suspect you didn't send. It's from the yahoo addy, so you may have been hacked. I didn't click the link. xox
Nope, I didn't send you an email. If I do it will have my full name in the addy. Brother is working on the car. Motor and stuff will be easy, arms a little more of a challenge. He expects to have it all out in a few days. Think I still have your mail addy, will let you know when I ship the parts.
Had to get my son in IT on my 'puter by remote. Somebody in Bosnia hacked into my account at 1:13 p.m. our time. Son #1 fixed it so they can't get in again. And apparently the spam sends my whole name 'cause I got spam from fake me on my gmail account. People also send fake emails from info they've gotten from Facebook. I've gotten many emails from "Julie" and "June" that start out Hi, Susan! followed by an addy that is to some advertising site or other. I hope the spammers damned fingers rot off.
Mostly just made an extra complicated password that people or robots can't figure out. I don't know that it will stop the guy from sending fakes via the info he already got. My sister clicked on a link he sent, so he's got her info too. Warned her and everybody I know to either not open if it looks fake, or change their passwords immediately if they opened it.
The Disability Pride Parade e-mail list has had three instances the last couple of days of similar spams. Since the spam was obviously going to everyone on the person's address book, I assumed the spammer had manage to get a trojan horse onto their computer. But I now realize that with these web-mail things people keep their address books on the web instead of their computers.
Incidentally, can somebody explain to me why so many people use gmail, yahoomail, etc.? Every internet service provider I have every had includes e-mail accounts in the base price. I can't see any reason not to simply use those.
I don't think this is one that destroys anything by opening/reading it. Just, maybe, clicking the link. Which I didn't. Did google the domain name of the link. Didn't recognize the language, and didn't click the link. Saw listener among the addressees. Also some DFA groups.
Susan, thank you so much for the windshield wiper stuff. Thank your sweet brother, too! ♥!!!!!!!!!!
Finally found time to read the articles linked to on yesterday's blog. Loved the article on the Dean Reunion. Wish I could go.
But was much less impressed with the Wikipedia article on the selfish brain theory. Poorly written and scientifically inaccurate. But note that it is the article, not the theory it purports to describe, that I am calling scientifically inaccurate. I can't get a clear enough picture of the theory to properly evaluate it.
listener--yes, my primary job seems secure, but I have had enough jobs shot out from under me that I feel uneasy with only one. Three is better. Three years and four months from now Social Security will take the place of Job No. 2 (the hospital every other weekend). There is no compelling reason to hire anyone at Job No. 1; we have a well-trained and experienced crew, and are not working at capacity now. Maybe if volume picks up by, say, 20%; definitely at 50%. Losing 450 jobs at the IBM plant should qualify as a disaster; the old rule of thumb was that each manufacturing job supported six others; it isn't so much now because of automation, but I think it is still about three. My sympathy to all. I've been there and it is awfully rough.
Thanks for the compassion, Alan. Sorry for how you came by it, though. Layoffs are never a good thing for workers. We are so grateful for Mah*Sweetie's job.
Bill, I have yahoo email basically as a throw away--I've never needed to, but it's always seemed good to be *able* to get mail at a distance. . . . May be that it's a female protective thang? Although I've seen guys who've been stalked do it too. Was standard advice when I got on line in 2003.
I don't think it's necessarily feminine. Mah*Sweetie has a second account, too, for the purpose of checking mail when away. He has to, as it's his way of doing business.
Howard is first! Once more. w0ºt!!
ReplyDeleteSusan, just got an email "from you" which I suspect you didn't send. It's from the yahoo addy, so you may have been hacked. I didn't click the link. xox
ReplyDeleteNope, I didn't send you an email. If I do it will have my full name in the addy. Brother is working on the car. Motor and stuff will be easy, arms a little more of a challenge. He expects to have it all out in a few days. Think I still have your mail addy, will let you know when I ship the parts.
DeleteAnd the yahoo addy has gotten hacked several times. So I mostly use gmail.
DeleteI got it too. Didn't click; deleted.
DeleteHad to get my son in IT on my 'puter by remote. Somebody in Bosnia hacked into my account at 1:13 p.m. our time. Son #1 fixed it so they can't get in again. And apparently the spam sends my whole name 'cause I got spam from fake me on my gmail account. People also send fake emails from info they've gotten from Facebook. I've gotten many emails from "Julie" and "June" that start out Hi, Susan! followed by an addy that is to some advertising site or other. I hope the spammers damned fingers rot off.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to know what your son did to fix it so you won't get more!
DeleteMostly just made an extra complicated password that people or robots can't figure out. I don't know that it will stop the guy from sending fakes via the info he already got. My sister clicked on a link he sent, so he's got her info too. Warned her and everybody I know to either not open if it looks fake, or change their passwords immediately if they opened it.
DeleteThe Disability Pride Parade e-mail list has had three instances the last couple of days of similar spams. Since the spam was obviously going to everyone on the person's address book, I assumed the spammer had manage to get a trojan horse onto their computer. But I now realize that with these web-mail things people keep their address books on the web instead of their computers.
DeleteIncidentally, can somebody explain to me why so many people use gmail, yahoomail, etc.? Every internet service provider I have every had includes e-mail accounts in the base price. I can't see any reason not to simply use those.
I don't think this is one that destroys anything by opening/reading it. Just, maybe, clicking the link. Which I didn't. Did google the domain name of the link. Didn't recognize the language, and didn't click the link. Saw listener among the addressees. Also some DFA groups.
DeleteSusan, thank you so much for the windshield wiper stuff. Thank your sweet brother, too! ♥!!!!!!!!!!
Finally found time to read the articles linked to on yesterday's blog. Loved the article on the Dean Reunion. Wish I could go.
ReplyDeleteBut was much less impressed with the Wikipedia article on the selfish brain theory. Poorly written and scientifically inaccurate. But note that it is the article, not the theory it purports to describe, that I am calling scientifically inaccurate. I can't get a clear enough picture of the theory to properly evaluate it.
I just skimmed the Wikipedia article and wasn't taken with it either, Bill; but there are others out there.
Delete--Alan
listener--yes, my primary job seems secure, but I have had enough jobs shot out from under me that I feel uneasy with only one. Three is better. Three years and four months from now Social Security will take the place of Job No. 2 (the hospital every other weekend). There is no compelling reason to hire anyone at Job No. 1; we have a well-trained and experienced crew, and are not working at capacity now. Maybe if volume picks up by, say, 20%; definitely at 50%. Losing 450 jobs at the IBM plant should qualify as a disaster; the old rule of thumb was that each manufacturing job supported six others; it isn't so much now because of automation, but I think it is still about three. My sympathy to all. I've been there and it is awfully rough.
ReplyDelete--Alan
Thanks for the compassion, Alan. Sorry for how you came by it, though. Layoffs are never a good thing for workers. We are so grateful for Mah*Sweetie's job.
DeleteBill, I have yahoo email basically as a throw away--I've never needed to, but it's always seemed good to be *able* to get mail at a distance. . . . May be that it's a female protective thang? Although I've seen guys who've been stalked do it too. Was standard advice when I got on line in 2003.
ReplyDeleteI don't think it's necessarily feminine. Mah*Sweetie has a second account, too, for the purpose of checking mail when away. He has to, as it's his way of doing business.
DeleteMorris for Mayor! [Click] (Follow the link to his website for more.)
ReplyDeleteI routinely use Earthlink web mail when I am away from home; and Earthlink regular e-mail when I am at home. Works great.
--Alan