RogerS
Established Member
Oh woe is me...
I noticed a website in my history that I didn't recall visiting. Googling it produced no hits so I thought, better run a virus check (not that I suspected it was dodgy). My port of call is Sophos and I tried to download a copy of their trial. "Not compatible with your OS version'. Found I already had a copy ready to instal and so fired it up, ran it, scan free..no nasties.
Now thing is I don't like all these programs running in the background as they can slow things down so I decided to uninstall it. They provide an uninstall program. It didn't work. It asked me for my Tamper Prevention password. WTF ? So I Googled. The only reference to this was for Windows.
:eusa-think: I am so screwed...this should not be happening. Mac now in an unknown and probably unstable state. Nothing else for it but to restore from the overnight backup. Which I did. Overwrote (naturally) every file that had changed on my Mac. Thing is....
...thing is... :roll: .... it was dated Dec 11 2019.
Huge chunk of emails gone. Forever.
I always saw a notification box in the morning. Didn't really give it much notice. Like as if it wasn't flashing BRIGHT RED and screaming..."Your overnight backup failed. " I mean if it did then, like I would have noticed.
I don't need to tell you what the moral of the story is.
I noticed a website in my history that I didn't recall visiting. Googling it produced no hits so I thought, better run a virus check (not that I suspected it was dodgy). My port of call is Sophos and I tried to download a copy of their trial. "Not compatible with your OS version'. Found I already had a copy ready to instal and so fired it up, ran it, scan free..no nasties.
Now thing is I don't like all these programs running in the background as they can slow things down so I decided to uninstall it. They provide an uninstall program. It didn't work. It asked me for my Tamper Prevention password. WTF ? So I Googled. The only reference to this was for Windows.
:eusa-think: I am so screwed...this should not be happening. Mac now in an unknown and probably unstable state. Nothing else for it but to restore from the overnight backup. Which I did. Overwrote (naturally) every file that had changed on my Mac. Thing is....
...thing is... :roll: .... it was dated Dec 11 2019.
Huge chunk of emails gone. Forever.I always saw a notification box in the morning. Didn't really give it much notice. Like as if it wasn't flashing BRIGHT RED and screaming..."Your overnight backup failed. " I mean if it did then, like I would have noticed.
I don't need to tell you what the moral of the story is.
