Gone are the days of installing a video player and then having to install (or update) codecs in order to play your files. Gone also, are the days of trying to get Quicktime to play those odd codecs by changing extensions, converting file types, etc.

In an earlier post I spoke about how easy it is to infect your Mac. There, I stressed the importance of downloading software only from websites belonging to major publishers and a few select others. Because this is the the critical first step in keeping your Mac (and your data) safe on the internet, here’s the basic list again:

In an, I admonished you to not use common words – especially those from your life history – as your passwords. This is to prevent a determined human from hacking your accounts using their direct knowledge of you or from what they can find on the internet. It‘s critical too that you remember you are also trying to prevent a computer – which is doing little ‘thinking’ but running through thousands of common words – from getting to your password given time. If your password is in the dictionary, or is a common (or uncommon) name, or is in the atlas or encyclopedia, a computer will get to it sooner or later.

It must be stressed, we’ve found both scenarios below to be true amongst our clientele. In some cases, they’ve predicted the steps in the danger column almost exactly. So, without further delay, continue reading and consider that messing up your Mac is not too difficult for you to achieve.

If so, Apple has made it super convenient to treat the problem. There are several ways you will know that updates are available:

Our clients are often surprised that we remember their administrator or email passwords weeks or months after we last worked on their devices.