Totally Astounded

I am not easily surprised anymore by the stupidity of people in general.  Most people are not really stupid, but they can be gullible and easily fooled. Just look at all of the hoax emails making the round or posted on Facebook to see what I mean.

There are a lot of other folks that are just uneducated about stuff, especially computers in general and certainly about being safe on the Internet.

However, when I read that a company was using the FREE version of Malwarebytes as their primary security, I almost choked.

This lack of regard for true security caused too many losses to count for consumers. If this is how companies are practicing security, then consumers are going to be hit again and again. The company in question said it was “in full compliance with industry practices”!

This is so frightning that I  never want do business with anyone again! I certainly hope it was just a misunderstanding about “full compliance’. I can only hope it was just ignorance and not just a greedy company that didn’t want to spend money to protect it’s customers.

Brian Krebs  of KrebsonSecurity made this information available.  I hope this will serve as a wake-up call to other companies trying to ‘save money’ by using a free product meant only for home users.(They should have been using the Pro version that runs in the background.) I am very much afraid this will continue as companies concerned with their bottom line will continue to scrimp on security without realizing they are jeopardizing their customers and ultimately their business.

When Did Yahoo Finally Allow Me to ‘POP’ My Email?

Yahoo Mail was always free, but not to download to your email program unless it was a plus account. I did find out how to download using IMAP, but now I found out you can also download with POP!

When did this happen? Did this start with neo? (neo is the new Yahoo format for Mail and Groups) I decided to search and find out when this happened!

I found lots of sites giving work-a-rounds on how to download Yahoo mail using third party apps. It was suggested U.S. users switch to another Yahoo country as Yahoo allowed free download mail for other countries.

But now on Yahoo's site it tells us how to download our email into an email program!

Access your Yahoo Mail account with another mail program

Finally I found this:
New Yahoo! Mail Finally Gets Free Email Forwarding, POP Access

So it did start with neo. Or at least so it seems. I must have missed that announcement or was it announced? Apparently it happened some time in 2013 (maybe August?), but whenever it happened, it is welcome news.

Finally Yahoo has joined the ranks of other web based email providers! And users can safely backup all those carefully hoarded emails to their computers.

Hackers have been known to take over email accounts. If they are really malicious, they could deleted all those emails and even of the owner manages to recover the account, all those saved emails are gone for good. But if the emails have been downloaded to a computer, there they all are, safe and sound.  Hopefully the computer has been backed up as well!