On Feb 20, 2020, at 12:45 PM, Brian via Groups.Io wrote:

I am looking for suggestions for a free (or inexpensive) time tracker. Nothing fancy, just basic hours, tasks and expenses.

I don't know of any free ones. However, this one is only $20 and it's very impressive for the price.

TaskTime ($20)


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And in Contacts, you can create a group, assign records to that group, and then print using various Avery or Dymo mailing label templates, chosen from the print popup.

Thanks for sharing this useful tip!

Pat

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Howdy.

Just a reminder. Since nearly everybody has Apple's Pages if you need
to make labels, like for file folders, shipping labels, all kinds of
labels, you can browse to the Avery web site and download a template
for Pages.

The templates are listed by an Avery number which is on each label
sheet.

Just double-click the template and it opens in Pages and you are ready
to type a label.

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On your Mac, go to System Preferences > Printers & Scanners. In the left column are the printers you have used/are using. Highlight the Epson and at the bottom left of that pane, then click the minus (-) symbol. That should take care of it.

Bill

My Epson WF-4630 quit working right, so I eventually purchased an HP-OfficeJet Pro 8025 and installed it on my Mac (ca late 2012, running Catalina 10.15.3.

The printer installed well on my Mac and iPhone, and that’s as far as I’ve gotten.

But when I tried to print from the Mac, the Epson comes up all the time, even though I set the HP to be the default.

I have tried dragging the Epson to the trash, but that doesn’t work.

Is there a way to uninstall it? It isn’t even in the house any more.

Thanks lots,

Carol

I am looking for suggestions for a free (or inexpensive) time tracker. Nothing fancy, just basic hours, tasks and expenses.

Thanks,
Brian

On Feb 20, 2020, at 9:35 AM, swarfmaster wrote:

I know better than to be smug about this...

When things work out that well for me I say:

"I meant to do that!" 8-)

I'm happy that things are now great for you, but it couldn't hurt to verify your setting in Mail.app. On this Web site you can enter your e-mail address and it will give you the correct settings for you for Mail.app.




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Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance

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I was having trouble sending email from my desktop (IMAC 5K 27" LATE 2014) which was quite annoying.? Cox is my provider so I thought it could be an issue at their end.? I am using Thunderbird.?? I tried to look at all of the trouble shooting sites trying to diagnose the problem but to no avail. Then I got the black screen...? the backlight was functional but that was it.? No starting chime. I grabbed my iPad ant starting hunting for a solution. An Apple site asked me for the serial number for my machine but I could not find my purchase receipt so I looked to see if it was anywhere on the outside of the machine.? To do so I had to turn it around on my desk which meant unplugging it (see where I'm headed?).? Still no serial number. ? Oh well after lunch I came back and plugged it in thinking I would have to take it to our local Apple store for help.? Just for the hell of it I started it up and all of the problems were fixed including the email issue!? Previously I had gone through all of the suggested "fixes" for a black screen including the unplugging step but apparently I didn't leave it unplugged long enough?? I know better than to be smug about this...

Dufus

Bob Stern wrote:

Safari would not open the page with the address .
…

I am guessing this is spam but it looks legit.

Not with that URL it isn’t…

On Feb 19, 2020, at 4:02 PM, Jim Saklad via Groups.Io wrote:

Randy –

I’ve found, over the years, that if you offer an opinion, it is generally researched, well-formed, and sound.

How nice of you to say! Thank you!

I've spent many years as the head of a user group for attorneys. You can't say anything to attorneys without making a strong case and usually offering citations for what you are saying. (Even when you are just trying to help someone!) So I've gotten into the habit of doing that. I *do* want to be helpful and not just be someone who offers wild opinions with nothing to back them up.

Do you have one of those opinions about Sqwark’s DetectX, and what it is, or is not, good for?

The thing is, Apple and the traditional anti-virus software companies don't seem to consider adware and PUP's (potentially unwanted programs such as MacKeeper) to be Malware at all (unless they also do something malicious, beyond serving up ads), and they don't look for them and defend against them. (I'm not sure, but I suspect that Apple, and maybe the traditional anti-virus software developers too, are wary about the legal ramifications of setting their products to delete potentially unwanted programs where it might be possible for the developers of the PUP's to argue that they are legitimate and not truly malicious in a courtroom. It would be nasty to lose a lawsuit to a company that claims that you are going around deleting or blocking their legitimate commercial product.) So, Mawarebytes and DetectX are sort of invaluable products, since the Mac OS itself, and traditional anti-virus programs, don't protect you from adware.

Both Malwarebytes and DetectX claim to look for all Mac malware, not just adware. I find that impossible to believe, because either product does a scan of your entire drive that only lasts less than a minute. By contrast, a true anti-malware product can take an hour or more to scan your entire drive.

What seems more likely is that both products only look in a few pre-determined places on your drive quickly, and only look for a select number of pieces of malware, likely the ones that are easy to spot just by their file name. But they both do an excellent job of finding and removing adware. So that's what they are good for; when you find that you've been hit with adware, either product seems to be great at removing it. As of late, while malware is almost non-existant on the Macintosh, adware is fairly common, and it's easy to get infected with it if are uninformed. (Often it comes in the form of a pop-up offering you a download of something like a Flash upgrade.)

I've stopped recommending Malwarebytes; at least as a first choice for dealing with adware. MalwareBytes has become very intrusive recently. Even the free version of MalwareBytes now installs a lot of files all over your Mac, deep in the System. If you put "malwarebytes" into EasyFind, it's really varied for folks. Some find just a few files, some find as many as 23! I don't know what they are all doing, but as they are all very deep in the System, I don't trust the product, and, especially after the dishonest "report" that they just released that has some less knowledgeable Mac users all freaked out about malware now, I don't trust the company it comes from.

Instead I now recommend DetectX for dealing with adware, which isn't as intrusive, for dealing with adware:

DetectX/Swift


Since adware isn't truly malicious, and you almost always know when you have it, I don't recommend using the automated scanning features of either DetectX or Malwarebytes, which might slow down your Mac or create software conflicts. In fact, you probably don't even need to download either program until and unless you are hit by adware. If you are the paranoid type, you may even want to use EasyFind to delete either program after you've used it, just to be careful that the program isn't harvesting personal information of yours.

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Howdy.

You can send it to Apple's phishing service and Apple will check it.

reportphishing@....

Denver Dan



On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 20:03:53 -0800, Bob Stern via Groups.Io wrote:

I have been receiving emails promoting the Apple Card. This evening I
clicked on a link in the email to see more information. This while
using my iPad.

Safari would not open the page with the address l.ead.me.
It said This connection is not private.
This website may be impersonating apply.applecard.apple to steal your
personal or financial information. You should close this page.

The address bar changed to apply.applecard.apple but no .com

The reply to address in the email is applecard@...

out of curosity I opened the mail on my iPhone and xfinity blocked
opening that page.

I am guessing this is spam but it looks legit.

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I would consider it suspect and would not click any of the links. ?Here’s info from Apple regarding the card:

I have been receiving emails promoting the Apple Card. This evening I clicked on a link in the email to see more information. This while using my iPad.

Safari would not open the page with the address l.ead.me.

?It said This connection is not private.
This website may be impersonating apply.applecard.apple to steal your personal or financial information. You should close this page.

The address bar changed to apply.applecard.apple ?but no .com

The reply to address in the email is ??applecard@...

out of curosity I opened the mail on my iPhone and xfinity blocked opening that page.

I am guessing this is spam but it looks legit.

BTW, I have had other web sites blocked for same reason.

Randy B. Singer wrote:

EtreCheck Pro, in its brand new release, contains this note:

"Probably one of the most widely misunderstood topics is computer security.?First of all, remember that Apple provides multiple layers of ?antivirus and?malware protection in the macOS operating system itself. You don’t need any?3rd party antivirus protection. When you first turned on your Mac, it was?probably the most secure that it has ever been. Most suggestions posted on?the internet to install software or change system settings will make your?machine less secure. Many popular 3rd party security products are simply?scams and give you no protection of any kind.

"Most of the popular media headlines about security exploits do not concern?your Macintosh. Do not pay attention to news media or bloggers. Trust Apple.?Apple has a team of professional software engineers who specialize in?system security. If your machine needs an update for security, Apple will?provide it. "

Randy –

Daniel Settles wrote:

This is just not the case and has been debunked many times.?

There are hundreds of millions of Macs and over a billion iOS?
devices. ? There are more devices running macOS X and iOS than there?
are Windows devices.

Apple just does a better job at security.

“Security through obscurity” was bunk when they started claiming it 15-20?years ago.

EtreCheck Pro, in its brand new release, contains this note:


"Probably one of the most widely misunderstood topics is computer security. First of all, remember that Apple provides multiple layers of antivirus and malware protection in the macOS operating system itself. You don’t need any 3rd party antivirus protection. When you first turned on your Mac, it was probably the most secure that it has ever been. Most suggestions posted on the internet to install software or change system settings will make your machine less secure. Many popular 3rd party security products are simply scams and give you no protection of any kind.

"Most of the popular media headlines about security exploits do not concern your Macintosh. Do not pay attention to news media or bloggers. Trust Apple. Apple has a team of professional software engineers who specialize in system security. If your machine needs an update for security, Apple will provide it. "


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On Feb 19, 2020, at 6:11 AM, hoplist wrote:

I quote from the article you cite above. "Unfortunately even Macs have been affected by Ransomware attacks, although these are very rare, as you will see if you read on.”

And if you read the article, you will see that while criminals have tried to create ransomware for the Mac, they have either been unsuccessful, or they have been quickly shut down, and no ransomware for the Mac remains in the wild and the Mac gets hardened against each failed attempt so that an entirely new method of attack has to be devised if the criminals want to try again.

Attacks don’t get named until after they happen. The most dangerous attack is a zero-day attack—the attack that has never happened before.

Windows bigots have been saying that there will be a flood of malware for the Macintosh "real soon now" since the advent of OS X...19 long years ago. When something shows up in the wild that is really virulent and Apple doesn't immediately patch the Macintosh against it, it will be....the first such thing. We can all run around like chickens with our heads cut off *then*. Until then, there is nothing to be done to protect ourselves from that which does not exist (and which may never exist). Even anti-virus software requires that its developer have a sample of the malware that it is protecting against to be able to create a protective "definition".

I've been running anti-virus software for close to two decades (because my profession requires it), and in all that time it has not yet saved me even once from something that I needed saving from.

The software and knowledge is out there. It’s not even particularly hard to find. Ask a hacker.

I have a software engineer in the family. He says that it's really really hard to write malware for the Macintosh. And he's not the only one:

"Is Windows inherently more vulnerable to malware attacks than OS X?"
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I’m not trying to scare anyone.

Then I think that you need to re-read your posts and think about how they are being perceived.

I believe the risk is low and remains low.

Correct.

Macs are safer because no one bothers to target them. It’s not worth the effort. There are simply too few Macs compared to Windows.

That's utter BS that is long out of date. There are well over 100 MILLION Macintoshes in use:
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Viruses and Operating Systems
by David Pogue (originally published in the New York Times)

What concerns me is the pervasive myth that Macs are somehow inherently “safe.”

Well, judging by the virus definitions in the ClamAV database, there are between 5 MILLION and 6 MILLION pieces of malware for Windows. (Think about that for a second.)

Based on all believable sources, there have been between 50 and 100 pieces of malware for the Macintosh (more likely closer to the lower end estimate) created in the last two decades, almost all of which no longer exist in the wild, or the Mac has been patched against them.

The Macintosh has several layers of protection:

XProtect/File Quarantine/Gatekeeper/MRT/SIP


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So, yes, just empirically I'd say that they Macintosh was fairly "safe." For two decades now I've heard some folks say that "soon" there will be a flood of viruses for the Macintosh. For years now my bet has been that there won't be. (If there was going to be, I would have expected it years ago, when the Macintosh had less built-in security.) I should have bet money on it, I'd be rich.

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Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)

Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance

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