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Re: You can protect your Mac from malware by following three simple rules!

From Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com>
Newsgroups alt.computer.workshop, uk.comp.sys.mac
Subject Re: You can protect your Mac from malware by following three simple rules!
Organization Southern Nevada Institute of Technology
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Date 2026-05-20 14:08 +0000
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On May 20, 2026 at 2:22:01 AM MST, ""David B."" wrote
<n75cppFajbvU1@mid.individual.net>:

> On 20/05/2026 03:51, Gremlin wrote:
>> "David B." <David@hotmail.co.uk> news:n6tqfkFk1bjU1@mid.individual.net
>> Sun, 17 May 2026 12:26:28 GMT in alt.computer.workshop, wrote:
>> 
>>> I'd like to take up one specific point with you. Even if a product user
>>> elects to NOT save an EtreCheck report, a complete copy *IS* kept on the
>>> user's computer, hidden away where most folk will not find it.
>> 
>> Why do you think it's hidden away where most people wouldn't find it?
> 
> I don't just THINK it is - it *IS* hidden!
> 
> One has to use the "option" key to actually FIND the LIBRARY entry where
> the containing folder may be found. It's hidden away in "Application
> Support" in a folder called "EtreCheck". Within THAT folder is another
> one called "PreviousReports". I
> 
> A great "find" application called EasyFind doesn't report the old
> EtreCheck reports, neither does the Apple "Spotlight" search.
> 
> They are, as I said, well hidden.
> 
> *WHY* are they there????

Look in the Application Support folder... that is the proper place for apps to
store their own "support" files.

>>> One of the features of EtreCheck is that when it is opened it will
>>> 'phone home' to Etresoft to check for updates. By so doing it provides
>>> John Daniel the actual IP address of the user.
>> 
>> It provides an IP address. It can't get the specific user from an IP address
>> alone. You have heard of networks, right?
> 
> Indeed I have!

I am just happy to see Gremlin show he understand this. The idea one and only
one person can use any given IP, an incorrect idea, was something he and
others used against me in their "evidence" to show I did as Carroll did
(posted with one of Carroll's socks).

...

>>> I don't dispute that I was once visited my local police. Many folk
>>> reading here will probably be unaware of that!
>> 
>> Some? might not have known about it. Those of us who have known you for a long
>> time do know about it. We watched it go down, virtually speaking.
> 
> Of course. I've never denied it.

You are the only person other than Carroll I know to have such face-to-face
police involvement based on Usenet activity. And in typical fashion: you are
honest about it where Carroll is not.

>>> I have no way of /knowing/ what is true and what is not.
>> 
>> Then you shouldn't blindly repeat what you are told, David. Especially by
>> someone with a history such as Snits.
> 
> I have OTHER friends, Dustin! 😉

Gremlin's fear of what I say is odd... he should work to improve himself and
not tear down others. I hope he gains the self confidence to do that some day.

>>> I am an *INVESTIGATOR*, Dustin Cook.
>> 
>> No, you are nothing of the kind. You are infact, a slightly demented, stalker,
>> and, other things.
> 
> <Shrug>

Gremlin says this but he has used more People Finder sites than anyone I have
ever heard of.

...


-- 
It's impossible for someone who is at war with themselves to be at peace with you.

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