Last week my email was compromised.
I have a MacBook Pro and knew as an Apple user I was not prone to viruses or malware.
I changed my password but was still receiving umpteen mailer-daemons and mail delivery problems in both my in-box and my spam.
Again I changed my password, making it impossible for anyone to guess but the Mail Delivery Systems persisted and I was growing agitated.
Some of my contacts had fallen prey to the scam too and I was getting links to malicious websites from them.
My sister-in-law said she’d forwarded my email to her personal in-box to look at later,
“Don’t click on it or open the link…it’s a scam!”
“How do you know?” she asked.
“When I open an email from someone I know and there’s just a blue link sitting all alone on the page with no attendant message I delete it!”
Daughts admitted to sending me links without messages but I usually read the string of words and letters and can tell if where she’s sending me is a valid site.
“Do you read the link before clicking on it?” I asked my sister-in-law.
“It’s too small…” she said.
“Be careful,” I cautioned as my folders kept filling up with more mail delivery problems.
I called security at my server’s place and was told to change my password and run an anti-virus programme. He also closed my account out at his end, had me do the same at mine performed some technical magic and sent me a temporary password.
I changed the password with him on the phone…just in case…and it looks as though things are settling down.
All it took were five password changes and the update of a couple of security questions! Lol!
My OSX is up to date but just in case I booked my MacBook into a Genius Bar to have it checked out.
It passed!
This weekend as the dust settled, I commented to hubs,
“You know, the only new emails I’ve been opening recently are the ones from healthcare.gov and you know how skeptical I was about their website and M.O…”
A few hours later hubs read about the heart bleed bug and the .gov website I’d spent days working on!
Was I correct in wanting to slink away with my tail between my legs?
Thanks Obama Care.
You owe me!
Well hello there! My name is Vivienne McNeny.
I am an empty nester exploring life as a Boomer…you could say I'm happily Boomering along!
As a homeschooling Mum I have finally quit the job of role model and mentor to my four children. I do what I want to do, eat when I feel like it, enjoy life with my blue eyed cowboy and clean my house once a month or so whether it needs it or not!
In true English form I write about the emergence of my true identity now that I can no longer hide behind my children as their Mum.
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