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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone
Subject: Re: Are iPhones subject to ransomware attacks?
Date: 16 Mar 2024 01:53:32 GMT
Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2024-03-16, <bp@www.zefox.net> <bp@www.zefox.net> wrote:
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Your neighbor probably isn't running an ad blocker (like 1Blocker, or
>> AdGuard) which would have prevented them from seeing this scam while
>> visiting the offending website in the first place.
>  
> The page displayed appeared to block mouse access to the Apple system
> menus.

For future reference, you can force quit any app on macOS by pressing
Command-Option-Escape.  😉

> I didn't explore very aggressively, however. If called again to help I'll
> be more inquisitive.
>
> Is uBlockOrigin considered acceptable on Mac OSX? 

Sure, but 1Blocker or AdBlock are simpler to set up and use, and work
with the macOS default web browser, Safari. 

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