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Apple security query

maryb
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in Techie Stuff
I'd be grateful for advice.
I had an odd email in my inbox today which I didn't open. The subject line was
Thanks for Using iTunes, Account will be closed shortly
I went straight to my Apple ID and changed my password and made sure there had been no purchases I din't recognise on my account.
I don't have any paid for services on Itunes - I tried Itunes Match about two years ago but it was such rubbish I didn't renew my subscription
This looked like a phishing email but is there anything else I should be concerned about? I ask because Google Chrome has been behaving oddly this last week and keeps booting me out into Firefox and telling me Chrome is not my default browser (which it is).
I have done an antivirus scan which was fine
I may be worrying unnecessarily but should I be doing anything else?
I can reinstall Windows if needs be and have done so before when I had a Trojan I could not get rid of any other way
Thank you in advance to anyone who can help
I had an odd email in my inbox today which I didn't open. The subject line was
Thanks for Using iTunes, Account will be closed shortly
I went straight to my Apple ID and changed my password and made sure there had been no purchases I din't recognise on my account.
I don't have any paid for services on Itunes - I tried Itunes Match about two years ago but it was such rubbish I didn't renew my subscription
This looked like a phishing email but is there anything else I should be concerned about? I ask because Google Chrome has been behaving oddly this last week and keeps booting me out into Firefox and telling me Chrome is not my default browser (which it is).
I have done an antivirus scan which was fine
I may be worrying unnecessarily but should I be doing anything else?
I can reinstall Windows if needs be and have done so before when I had a Trojan I could not get rid of any other way
Thank you in advance to anyone who can help
It doesn't matter if you are a glass half full or half empty sort of person. Keep it topped up! Cheers!
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Thank you, that's reassuring. I do wonder why Chrome has been misbehaving though it seems alright for now.It doesn't matter if you are a glass half full or half empty sort of person. Keep it topped up! Cheers!0
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I've been a long time Firefox or years but recently it seems to have lost the plot somewhat. There seems to be endless updates, some of which appear to have been less than thoroughly tested.
I got so frustrated that I switched to Chrome but that too seems to be heading the same way. Updates are sometimes followed by odd or unpredictable behavior. I've been alternating between them depending on the annoyance levels.One by one the penguins are slowly stealing my sanity.0 -
I've been using the business users version of FF (ESR), less "updates" posing as feature additions and easier to keep an eye on what is updating.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/0
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