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Wife clicked on a link via Skype...now it gets weird
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<blockquote data-quote="Trolle" data-source="post: 1754073" data-attributes="member: 86801"><p>Wife has a MB Air running the OS before Yosemite. </p><p></p><p>She got a link via Skype from a friend and clicked on it. Next time she logged on there appeared a dark grey rounded rectangle with changing text inside. The box is always on top of any program or file open. The text varies with what she has clicked or typed. </p><p></p><p>In all my years of using Apple I have never seen anything like that. </p><p></p><p>For example:</p><p>It will show the file name in the box of a file she has selected</p><p>It will show the text entered into the Google search field</p><p>It will show the text from a selected field with a radio button</p><p></p><p>I told her to turn off the computer and not log into anything. </p><p></p><p>Apparently, there is a warning on the Skype community about this type of thing:</p><p><a href="https://community.skype.com/t5/Security-Privacy-Trust-and/Link-to-quot-baidu-quot-website-sent-to-all-of-my-contacts/td-p/4461728" target="_blank">https://community.skype.com/t5/Security-Privacy-Trust-and/Link-to-quot-baidu-quot-website-sent-to-all-of-my-contacts/td-p/4461728</a></p><p></p><p>So...what is the next step from here?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trolle, post: 1754073, member: 86801"] Wife has a MB Air running the OS before Yosemite. She got a link via Skype from a friend and clicked on it. Next time she logged on there appeared a dark grey rounded rectangle with changing text inside. The box is always on top of any program or file open. The text varies with what she has clicked or typed. In all my years of using Apple I have never seen anything like that. For example: It will show the file name in the box of a file she has selected It will show the text entered into the Google search field It will show the text from a selected field with a radio button I told her to turn off the computer and not log into anything. Apparently, there is a warning on the Skype community about this type of thing: [url]https://community.skype.com/t5/Security-Privacy-Trust-and/Link-to-quot-baidu-quot-website-sent-to-all-of-my-contacts/td-p/4461728[/url] So...what is the next step from here? [/QUOTE]
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