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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 1111131" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>Yep, change the password on the yahoo account as it is quite likely her email account has been hacked. This is becoming very common with weak passwords across yahoo, hotmail, and gmail. As has been suggested use a combination of numbers and letters with a Cap or 2 thrown in.</p><p></p><p>There are no virii/malware in the wild that will run in OS X at this time. There are no "drive by" infections that will run in OS X either. There are a couple of trojans in the wild that can affect OS X and are only accessible via downloading illegal software packages (which she wouldn't need since she already has the software in question pre-installed for free on her machine) and certain porn sites that request you download video codecs. </p><p></p><p>I do not, nor have I ever run any A/V on my Macs and personally advise against it as we see many more issues surrounding them than we see of those that have been affected by one of the trojans out there. To be on the safe side you could have her install ClamXav (free) and run it once a week. This would help prevent her from forwarding emails that may be infected with Windows malware her friends have sent her that would not affect her Mac. (Although, not really a concern if she's using the cloud and not using the Mail app.)</p><p></p><p>Lastly, make sure she understands that she should never put in her admin password unless she knows what and why something is asking for it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 1111131, member: 24160"] Yep, change the password on the yahoo account as it is quite likely her email account has been hacked. This is becoming very common with weak passwords across yahoo, hotmail, and gmail. As has been suggested use a combination of numbers and letters with a Cap or 2 thrown in. There are no virii/malware in the wild that will run in OS X at this time. There are no "drive by" infections that will run in OS X either. There are a couple of trojans in the wild that can affect OS X and are only accessible via downloading illegal software packages (which she wouldn't need since she already has the software in question pre-installed for free on her machine) and certain porn sites that request you download video codecs. I do not, nor have I ever run any A/V on my Macs and personally advise against it as we see many more issues surrounding them than we see of those that have been affected by one of the trojans out there. To be on the safe side you could have her install ClamXav (free) and run it once a week. This would help prevent her from forwarding emails that may be infected with Windows malware her friends have sent her that would not affect her Mac. (Although, not really a concern if she's using the cloud and not using the Mail app.) Lastly, make sure she understands that she should never put in her admin password unless she knows what and why something is asking for it. [/QUOTE]
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