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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Nigerian spam coming through google calendar invitations
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2013 17:20:40
Message-Id: 201302021720.06321.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] [OT] Nigerian spam coming through google calendar invitations by walt
1 On Saturday 02 Feb 2013 16:39:55 walt wrote:
2 > I thought I'd been rooted when I saw a notification pop up on my desktop
3 > with no previous actions on my part -- it just appeared out of nowhere
4 > for no apparent reason, offering to sell me gold dust (cheap!).
5 >
6 > Turns out that evolution (a gnome clone of MS Outook) was checking my
7 > google calendar account automatically and I didn't even know it. I
8 > use gmail every day, but never use the google calendar app that comes
9 > bundled with the gmail account.
10 >
11 > I do use the evolution calendar function on this local machine for
12 > popup reminders of birthdays, etc, but never do I publish my calendar
13 > on the internet.
14 >
15 > So, be aware that some calendar apps are set to do this insane stuff
16 > by default -- and google calendar accepts unsolicited invitations by
17 > default(!). Maybe you should turn that off if you're not expecting
18 > a Nigerian offer you can't refuse?
19
20 I guess it's treated as another imap folder (but I may be wrong). Couldn't
21 you manage this through the imap subscriptions?
22 --
23 Regards,
24 Mick

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