Flashback: Might be a good idea to change password
Here
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/widespread-computer-virus-indicates-mac -users-no-longer-safe/?ref=technology
We see "The malware infects computers in one of two ways. In some cases, users receive a pop-up prompt purporting to be from Adobe Flash asking them to install an update and type in their password** - hence the Trojan’s name, “Fakeflash” or “Flashback.”
Flashback: Might be a good idea to change password. Question is, if user enters password to get into Mac OS, why should they ever have to enter it again? In Windows, aside from login, password is never asked for.
You don't go into the details as to why the account was suspended ... that background might be helpful since you're asking others for their opinion. In general it sounds like the account was "deleted" at which point all mail is bounced because the address no longer exists -- but Verizon holds the name in reserve for some period of time to prevent someone from re-registering it in case an error was made and for some level of security, I suppose.
Anyhow ... on your commentary about not using an @verizon.net address as your primary address ... I think you will have this with many providers. Hotmail, Yahoo, and Gmail all do this if you terminate the account (they do have a suspended account due to inactivity feature which operates differently, but pretty much do the same thing for deletions and such. I don't use the @verizon.net account as my primary for a different reason however -- my primary address is provider agnostic. I can move providers (although I'm quite happy with FiOS at the moment) -or- if at some point down the road I have to move out of Verizon territory, my email address will not need to change. I used this little fact to my advantage when I moved from Comcast to Verizon a few years ago -- no one knew I changed providers because my email address didn't change. Now .. I don't use one of the free services for email, I own my own domain name (about $10/year from the likes of GoDaddy) and have my domain hosted on the Google Apps tier (but even without that, GoDaddy will do basic forwarding for you of any email address to whatever mail account you're presently using). Something to think about.
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If there's a serious threat shouldn't updates tell us if we were affected? It seems like it just erases the malware and closes the security vulnerability, which is great going forward. But if they've already got my data, doesn't the update just erased my history of exposure to the malware? That actually leaves me more vulnerable.There really isn't much risk. The malware was extraordinarily weak. It crashed applications instead of collecting any data. Still, it is always a good idea to change passwords every now and then.
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> On 02 Apr 2008 in macromedia.dreamweaver, Tarvardian
wrote:
>
>> Is there someplace I can go to find a list of widely
>> accepted attributes?
>
> How 'bout the source?
>
>
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#adef-rel
>
> Note that it has a set of defined values:
>
>
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-links
>
> In looking over the documentation, and given my
understanding of the way
> things work in the here and now, I suspect that it's one
of those "Won't
> hurt, might help" kind of things.
>
> --
> Joe Makowiec
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