Re: Apple's OSX computers now being hit with twice as much malware as PCs
On Feb 19, 2020, at 1:31 PM, Randy B. Singer < randy@...> wrote:
Windows bigots
I’m pretty sure there are no Windows bigots on this list.
Does your average Mac user need additional anti-virus software? The consensus is, no. I agree with the consensus.?
Have you issued a restraining order against your ex? If you have, then you probably need a 3rd party malware scanner.
One size never fits all.
Cheers, ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? tod
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Re: A question for people who travel with their laptops
On Feb 23, 2020, at 10:58 AM, jimrobertson via Groups.Io < jimrobertson@...> wrote:
Have you attempted to duplicate the problem at your local library? ?That could possibly make it easier for you to find a solution.
Any reason you think the library IT mavens would be any more skilled than those who do the job for Starbucks or hotels?
I’ve not found a single open network where I CAN get access without rebooting once. I don’t know what happens if I try to go from one open network to another during the same boot cycle, but that’s not a common occurrence.
Thanks for the replies so far. Looks like it is something about my environment. Ouch.
Sorry I mistook your statement, "One problem is that my two usual test environments (my home LAN with an 802.11ac Apple router and the medical care facility ?are 50 miles apart,” to mean that you might need other closer testing options. -- Bev in TX
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Re: A question for people who travel with their laptops
Have you attempted to duplicate the problem at your local library? ?That could possibly make it easier for you to find a solution.
Any reason you think the library IT mavens would be any more skilled than those who do the job for Starbucks or hotels?
I’ve not found a single open network where I CAN get access without rebooting once. I don’t know what happens if I try to go from one open network to another during the same boot cycle, but that’s not a common occurrence.
Thanks for the replies so far. Looks like it is something about my environment. Ouch.
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Jim Robertson
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Re: One word on iPhone always defaults to all letter capitalization
Paul Hill wrote: Thanks, Jim. Following your suggestion, the city appears correctly as long as?I do not capitalize the first letter. It defaults to the proper suggestion. If the?word starts a sentence, it works as long as I put in a space before I start?typing. You can create distinct entries for alternate “misspellings”. This capture happens to be from the corresponding tool on my Mac, for a word I often type wrong:
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Re: One word on iPhone always defaults to all letter capitalization
Thanks, Jim. Following your suggestion, the city appears correctly as long as I do not capitalize the first letter. It defaults to the proper suggestion. If the word starts a sentence, it works as long as I put in a space before I start typing.
Progress anyway!?
Thanks,
Paul
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Re: One word on iPhone always defaults to all letter capitalization
There is. Tap twice quickly on the SHIFT KEY. YOU SHOULD SEE A LOCK SYMBOL BOTTOM RIGHT.
Sent from JT's Ipad - maybe using voice dictation!
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On Feb 23, 2020, at 10:28, rmpbklyn <rmaniacnyc@...> wrote:
i have the opposite problem ,unable to make a word in caps, unless have to keep clicking the up arrow for each letter makes very slow. i wish there was a 'caps lock'
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Re: One word on iPhone always defaults to all letter capitalization
i have the opposite? problem ,unable to make a word in caps, unless have to keep clicking the up arrow for each letter makes very slow.? i wish there? was a 'caps lock'
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Re: A question for people who travel with their laptops
On Feb 23, 2020, at 8:23 AM, jimrobertson via Groups.Io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
What I don’t know is how common the problem is. So, I’d like to ask a question: are there people here who don’t need to reboot their Macs to obtain internet access via the non-secured guest network provided by a hotel, retail or health care establishment? Are there others reading this who DO have the problem? Jim, 2-3 years ago we were houseless for 6-1/2 months. During that time, we traveled all over Texas, staying in a wide variety of hotels. I never had to reboot my 2010 MBP to connect to one of their “password protected” networks. I was using macOS 10.12 Sierra at that time. There were a couple times that they had to correct something on their network for me to use my MBP or my iPad. We also frequented libraries to use their networks when we were out of one hotel, but not yet into the next one. Again, I did not have to reboot my MBP to use their “password protected” networks. Have you attempted to duplicate the problem at your local library? That could possibly make it easier for you to find a solution. -- Bev in TX
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Re: A question for people who travel with their laptops
I don't have that problem, either mac or iOS.
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On Feb 23, 2020, at 09:23, jimrobertson via Groups.Io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
What I don’t know is how common the problem is. So, I’d like to ask a question: are there people here who don’t need to reboot their Macs to obtain internet access via the non-secured guest network provided by a hotel, retail or health care establishment?
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A question for people who travel with their laptops
My daily routine frequently includes spending time at a medical care facility where the “guest” network is “open” (no encryption) but uses a common software device to provide internet access after my laptop connects to its SSID: pasting a dialog on the screen that requires a specific input before the user actually obtains internet access through the open network. The macOS uses a “captive agent” process to deal with this dialog box. It’s a common mechanism for providing access to a non-secured “guest” network at hotels, coffee shops, retail outlets, etc.
Each time I encounter one of these networks I must reboot my Mac in order for my Mac to be able to post that dialog box to my display. That works every time, but having to reboot is a nuisance. Once I do what’s required in the “captive agent” dialog, my Mac has no trouble logging back in to the open network so long as I’ve not taken the computer to another location where I connect to a secured network (for example, if I turn off WiFi, or allow the Mac to go to sleep, etc.).
The input into the “captive agent” dialog box is created by the IT staff managing the open network. It may require just clicking a button in a dialog box, or it may require text or numeric input. In some cases, it’s called a password, but typically the establishment pastes that password in a prominent location available to all its customers
My iOS and iPadOS devices have no difficulty connecting to any of the open networks where my Mac cannot do so without a reboot, but the connection does require the input into the captive agent dialog. The difference seems to be that iOS has no trouble providing the dialog box to the user.
I’ve been working with Apple Support on this issue. It’s a well known problem that’s been discussed in the Apple Support Communities fora and on Tidbits. Apparently, there’s no universally effective solution.
What I don’t know is how common the problem is. So, I’d like to ask a question: are there people here who don’t need to reboot their Macs to obtain internet access via the non-secured guest network provided by a hotel, retail or health care establishment? Are there others reading this who DO have the problem?
I’ve not checked the list rules, but if there’s a rule that forbids taking polls, I’d be happy to compile data from off-list replies. I think that if users see others replying to my question, I’d welcome subsequent replies addressed directly to me rather than to the list.
Apple support tell me that they’re aware of the issue, and that configuring a specific network location may help, but that some login items may confound attempts to connect to such networks, so the support person had me disable automatic login to Dropbox. I’ll find out later today if that really has helped. I’ve also reset non-volatile RAM and the SMC on my MacBook Pro.
The problem existed under Mojave on my previous MacBook Pro and persists under Catalina on my new 16” MacBook Pro.
The support person has suggested running MalwareBytes if what we’ve done so far doesn’t help.
One problem is that my two usual test environments (my home LAN with an 802.11ac Apple router and the medical care facility ?are 50 miles apart, and I know that when I arrive at the medical care facility I can obtain durable internet access just by rebooting. However, my curiosity is whetted by being told I shouldn’t have to do this. I can probably shuttle between my home and a coffee shop in my rural community to test/retest.
So, does everybody need to reboot their Macs to get internet access on open networks? Does NO ONE else need to do this? Has anyone who HAD this problem resolved it?
Thanks so much,
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Jim Robertson
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I got from the App Store a security update (061-64349) for my MacBook Air 7.2 under MacOS 10.13.6. When the download had finished, my Mac tried to start up but got stuck on a black screen. There was a cursor and it moved in response to my trackpad, but nothing else. A forced shutdown was the only way out. I suspected that the download had been corrupted in some way, so I trashed the update files and got a new download. Same problem. I work around it by forcing a shutdown and canceling the "open applications" dialog on startup. Then when the usual "install update" message appears, I postpone it to the next day.? Has anybody seen this before?
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Recommend: Take Control Books (Apple Mail)
A few people on here recommended that I get one of the Take Control Books in order to learn more about Apple Mail. So, I have, and I want to thank those people. This is EXACTLY what I’m looking for.
So far, this book is easy to read but gives a ton of information in a very understandable format, even for those of us who are not very technically minded. It also does not bother with the basics that we already know (such as how to compose a new email), but goes right into tips, tricks, and features that are a little more obscure. And even includes a section on which third-party apps can be used to beef up Mail's capability.
I am reading it on my Kindle, which means I can read it anywhere, or bring the Kindle over to my iMac where the text will not interfere with trying something out on the iMac screen.
I am highly recommending this book. Its perfect!
?? Karen ? ?organizing my iMac to the Nines999
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Re: Top Results & Chrominum Malware Alert
Howdy.?
Thanks for reminder. With the new MacPro, I Forgot to install it.?
Denver Dan?
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On Feb 21, 2020, at 6:54 PM, Christopher Collins via Groups.Io <maclist@...> wrote:
? Hi Denver Dan,
If you’re using FireFox, you really should be using the AdBlock Plus extension. There are multiples available but I have always found this one (??) the best!
They also make the same extension for most browsers out there.
Christopher
Howdy.
I found two malware items on my MacPro 2019 this morning. ?
1. ?Top Results ?(some form of adware).
2. ?Chrominum ?(possibly a fake browser to mimic Google's Chrome??
I noticed both as items in System Preferences>Users & Groups>Login
Items. ?
I have only a suspicion that Top Results might have been installed
along with either an MPlayer or MPlayerX app for playing videos. ?
Chrominum could be linked to a legit web browser that is an effort to
avoid Google's constant tracking and copying of everything every
computer user does, but, it could be a piece of malware that mimic the
real Chrominum.
I've never installed or used Chrome or anything called Chrominum so
have no idea how it sneaked in. ?
Top Results may put adds into the Safari browser and change of Safari
Home Page works. ??I use Firefox and had not noticed any odd ads but be
get so deluged with them - who knows??
Do a search for Top Results removal info. ?It could take more steps
that one might think. ?The excellent EasyFind.app was a good help to
me. ?
Like the sergeant said in every episode of, "Hill Street Blues," ?"Be
careful out there." ?
Denver Dan
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Re: Epson printer gone, can't get it off my Mac
Thanks Denver Dan and others who wrote. I had tried dragging the 9 Epson apps to the trash from the Launchpad, but that didn’t work. What did work was doing it from the Applications folder as a right-click. Just dragging didn’t do it. So thanks, all.
Carol
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Denver Dan wrote:
Open your Applications folder and drag anything Epson to Trash.??
There may be other Epson items lurking in one of the Library folders?
but they just become inert. You could do a Command f (Find) and search?
for them. Or, try EasyFind.app and search for them.??
Denver Dan?
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Re: Brother ink cartridge problem
On Feb 21, 2020, at 2:00 PM, McAllister wrote: Thanks for the rapid reply, Randy. Yes, both cartridges are Brother - the second had just been purchased locally.
My feeling is that passing this on to Brother wouldn't be very useful. The printer was bought almost 3 years ago – long since out of warranty. This has nothing to do with the original warranty. You purchased genuine Brother ink cartridges and they don't work in your Brother printer. Either the printer is defective or the ink cartridges are defective. Defects have nothing to do with the original warranty. Tell the Brother folks that you consulted with an attorney (me) and that your attorney said that they have to get things working for you, or otherwise make things good for you. ___________________________________________ Randy B. Singer Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions) Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance ___________________________________________
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Re: One word on iPhone always defaults to all letter capitalization
Paul Hill wrote: There’s a word that I type in my iPhone texts quite frequently that always?defaults to all of the letters capitalizing. Actually it’s a city so the first letter?only should be capitalized.
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I’ve tried keyboard reset on the iPhone, but it still defaults to capitalizing the?whole word. Granted this is just a minor irritation, but I do use this word a lot?and I’m always having to backtrack to change it.
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Any ideas?
On the iPhone: Got to Settings / Keyboards / Text Replacement Click on the +
On the left, type the word the way it appears On the right, type the word as you *want* it to appear
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Re: Top Results & Chrominum Malware Alert
Daniel Settles wrote: I found two malware items on my MacPro 2019 this morning. ?
1. ?Top Results ?(some form of adware).?
2. ?Chrominum ?(possibly a fake browser to mimic Google's Chrome???
“Chrominum” and not “Chromium” ? Chromium?is a?free and open-source software?project from?Google. The?source code?can be?compiled?into a?web browser.?
Google uses the code to make its?Chrome?browser, which has?more features?than Chromium.?Many other browsers?are also based on the Chromium code,?including?Microsoft Edge,?Opera, and?Amazon Silk. In addition, some parties?(although not Google) build the code as-is and release browsers with the?Chromium name. Most web search results on Chrominum seem to be typos for the element?Chromium. The #1 result on DuckDuckGo is an Alibaba search (i.e., from China), which?makes me wonder if some languages use the alternate spelling for the?element. Have you ever tried using DetectX ?
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Re: One word on iPhone always defaults to all letter capitalization
On Feb 21, 2020, at 7:37 PM, Paul Hill <424paulhill@...> wrote:
There’s a word that I type in my iPhone texts quite frequently that always defaults to all of the letters capitalizing. Actually it’s a city so the first letter only should be capitalized.
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I’ve tried keyboard reset on the iPhone, but it still defaults to capitalizing the whole word. Granted this is just a minor irritation, but I do use this word a lot and I’m always having to backtrack to change it.
Some things to consider, though some solutions have side issues ... -- Bev in TX
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One word on iPhone always defaults to all letter capitalization
There’s a word that I type in my iPhone texts quite frequently that always defaults to all of the letters capitalizing. Actually it’s a city so the first letter only should be capitalized.
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I’ve tried keyboard reset on the iPhone, but it still defaults to capitalizing the whole word. Granted this is just a minor irritation, but I do use this word a lot and I’m always having to backtrack to change it.
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Any ideas?
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Thanks,
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Paul
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Re: Brother ink cartridge problem
Brother are usually VERY GOOD with customer support. Even on out of warranty printers and consumables.
Christopher
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On 22 Feb 2020, at 9:00 am, McAllister <73357.3046@...> wrote:
Please excuse me for taking so long answering your reply It's been rather chaotic here
Thanks for the rapid reply, Randy. Yes, both cartridges are Brother - the second had just been purchased locally.
My feeling is that passing this on to Brother wouldn't be very useful. The printer was bought almost 3 years ago – long since out of warranty. Maybe i'll give it a try anyway. They may have seen the problem before and know something to do.
I posted here first because I see a number of very knowledgeable users on the forum.
Many thanks,
Stratton McAllister
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