Re: suspicious stuff on iphone
I appreciate that you were worried about what you saw, but you might want to be careful about posting such absolute conclusions. I¡¯ve never heard of *ANYONE* encountering *ANYTHING* that was truly
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Randy B. Singer
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#21109
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Re: suspicious stuff on iphone
randy, the fact that i could not get the message off the screen short of turning off the phone made me think it was malicious and not from apple...yes, i've seen many times an apple device asking me
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tim meidroth
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#21108
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Re: suspicious stuff on iphone
no, it is not on the latest version of ios [email protected]> wrote:
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tim meidroth
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#21107
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Re: suspicious stuff on iphone
i don't know...i suppose it could have been, although i don't know how or whether you can turn off notifications from apple. [email protected]> wrote:
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tim meidroth
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Re: suspicious stuff on iphone
What am *I* missing? What makes the message you saw ¡°clearly not from Apple¡±? Just the fact that you¡¯ve never seen it before? You¡¯ve never seen an Apple device ask for you to agree to
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Randy B. Singer
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Re: suspicious stuff on iphone
The article mentions a n iOS bug that prompts the user to do it again. Is your wife's phone at the latest iOS version?
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Bev in TX
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Re: suspicious stuff on iphone
Could it have been a push notification thru the browser used on that phone? Brent On my iPhone Xr
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Brent
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Re: Safe to open?
WRONG on both counts, Brent. There IS no available decision for a user regarding an iMessage. If it arrives on your device, the text in it is readable. Also, I did NOT open the pdf attachment.
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jimrobertson
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Re: Safe to open?
Why bother? Spammers spoof the calling number, and I believe that is a pay to use service, to look up a number that is a lie, if even an active number. Brent
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Brent
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Re: Safe to open?
A lot of low level hacking relies on social engineering. Apple products are protected by preventing vulnerable software like Java Script, Flash and executables from running. But the humans get tricked
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Brent
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Re: Safe to open?
Oh, but if you saw it contained a PDF, you opened the test message. And you certainly whined about it and asked if you should open it. Check the subject line you wrote, and you opened it after three
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Brent
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Re: suspicious stuff on iphone
thanks, bev....i watched the FAQ video in that article and it shows what looks like the message we saw....however, i can't find < settings apple ID suggestions (as shown here from the video) on either
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tim meidroth
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#21098
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Re: suspicious stuff on iphone
This is the only recent thing that I've heard about Apple's terms of service: https://www.simplymac.com/icloud/new-icloud-terms-and-conditions
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Bev in TX
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suspicious stuff on iphone
jim robertson¡¯s recent post about whether to open a suspicious pdf file in imessages prompted me to share a recent oddity on one of our two household iphones, a his and a hers, both iphone13 pro max
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tim meidroth
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#21096
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Re: Safe to open?
If you go to https://www.whitepages.com/reverse-phone and type in the phone number it will tell you who owns that number, if it¡¯s a valid number. Just keep in mind that the phone number may be
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FrankRP
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Re: Safe to open?
There is very little that a malicious Web site can do to you if you don¡¯t volitionally give the site your information. Especially on iOS, but even on a Macintosh. Generally speaking, it¡¯s been
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Randy B. Singer
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Re: Safe to open?
Brent: Neither of your (grammatically weird) assertions is true. A user doesn¡¯t ¡°open¡± an iMessage. It¡¯s readable as it arrives. So, unless I had some way of preventing an iMessage from
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jimrobertson
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#21093
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Re: Safe to open?
19 KiloBytes? Ok. But he still k Missed the point and viewed it any way. It may not include malware, but it definitely was spam. And he wonders why he keeps getting more spam. Because he keeps letting
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Brent
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#21092
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Re: Safe to open?
You are likely see to open, and if it is the one I keep getting, It will tell you what a bad boy you are visiting all those X rated sites and if you do not send $1800 to a bitcoin account, all your
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Michael
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Re: Safe to open?
Brent wrote: I have 35 legitimate .PDF¡¯s on my Mac that are 19kb or smaller¡ -- Jim Saklad jimdoc@... ?
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Jim Saklad
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