[nmglug] Mac air

[Brian O'Keefe]

Could it be that my wife has not upgraded her OS since 2012? She's still 
running 10.6 which is probably pretty deprecated I would think. 
Malwarebytes doesn't like the OS-too old

On 10/22/19 1:48 PM, Adric wrote:
> i know several of my coworkers have been seeing a few more malicious 
> and spyware apps on mac's.   might try downloading on a fresh flash 
> drive a copy of Malwarebytes for mac.
>
> https://www.malwarebytes.com/mac/
>
> give it a good scan and see if you find something.
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 12:03 PM Brian O'Keefe <okeefe at cybermesa.com 
> <mailto:okeefe at cybermesa.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello all,
>
>     My wife has a 7 year old macbook air. She does all her business on
>     it which is using Firefox for research purposes, email and report
>     writing with LibreOffice. Recently she is getting a 403 Forbidden
>     error for a specific website, liveauctioneers.com
>     <http://liveauctioneers.com>.
>
>     Live auctioneers has suggested a cache or cookie issue so we
>     cleared all those out. They suggested another browser so we tried
>     Safari with the same error.
>
>     I have searched the forums and nothing there is helpful, at least
>     on my level. Can anyone figure why a specific website and only
>     that website does not play well with the Mac Air? I have reset the
>     router, as suggested by liveauctioneers.
>
>     So there is something configured in the laptop that is pervasive.
>     I just don't know what to fix. The one website with detailed
>     instructions was specific to wordpress but on the laptop, not in a
>     browser.
>
>     Can anyone help?
>
>     Many thanks
>
>     Brian
>
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