Bizarre interloper in Apple's Calendar App
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- Shooshie
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Bizarre interloper in Apple's Calendar App
I've been getting these chinese ads for a type of sunglasses which shall remain nameless (they want exposure; I'm not giving it). They pop up as a notification event in Calendar.app, on all my devices. My wife is getting them, too. I cannot find them anywhere to delete them.
Does anyone know where these are coming from, how to stop them from getting into Calendar, and how to find them and delete them from my devices?
What a bizarre way to hack your computing devices: the calendar.
Shooshie
Does anyone know where these are coming from, how to stop them from getting into Calendar, and how to find them and delete them from my devices?
What a bizarre way to hack your computing devices: the calendar.
Shooshie
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Re: Bizarre interloper in Apple's Calendar App
You have to use workarounds. If you attempt to delete the item itself, it will send a notification back to the spammer. So here are workaround steps to prevent the notification from going out:
1. Create a new calendar, move the offending item to it, then delete the new calendar.
2. To stop the ads appearing in your iCal, login to your iCloud account, go to the iCal set up there, and tell it to send new notification via email only. Note you'll still get the spam, but it will be in email rather than your iCal, but at least you have Junk Filters in email that can deal with it.
1. Create a new calendar, move the offending item to it, then delete the new calendar.
2. To stop the ads appearing in your iCal, login to your iCloud account, go to the iCal set up there, and tell it to send new notification via email only. Note you'll still get the spam, but it will be in email rather than your iCal, but at least you have Junk Filters in email that can deal with it.
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Re: Bizarre interloper in Apple's Calendar App
Not seeing it here... yet. The world is changing and not always in a good way.
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Re: Bizarre interloper in Apple's Calendar App
I'll be on the lookout.
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Re: Bizarre interloper in Apple's Calendar App
So does this mean that the iCloud account is being spammed?
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- mikehalloran
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Re: Bizarre interloper in Apple's Calendar App
Not necessarily. It's easy for someone to get to your Calander through GMail. My work does that--I did nothing to set that up.cuttime wrote:So does this mean that the iCloud account is being spammed?
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Re: Bizarre interloper in Apple's Calendar App
I can't even FIND the actual spam. I just get notifications of it, and they say its in Calendar. But a search of Calendar turns up nothing. I just got two more. They include Chinese(?) characters. Where the heck are they?
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Re: Bizarre interloper in Apple's Calendar App
I wonder if it's Facebook related? When I boot up with El Capitan I see events pop up on the top right of the screen (usually birthday reminders) that have to come from FB.
Just a (probably) wild guess!
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Re: Bizarre interloper in Apple's Calendar App
It appears to be iCloud linked. It happens with the Photos app and iCal.buzzsmith wrote:I wonder if it's Facebook related? When I boot up with El Capitan I see events pop up on the top right of the screen (usually birthday reminders) that have to come from FB.
Just a (probably) wild guess!
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Additional info here
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/77 ... 0&tstart=0
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Well, there you go. Thanks, billf and cuttime.
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Re: Bizarre interloper in Apple's Calendar App
Another link from today... http://www.macrumors.com/2016/11/28/del ... ndar-spam/
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Re: Bizarre interloper in Apple's Calendar App
It is also being covered in ARS Technica:buzzsmith wrote:Another link from today... http://www.macrumors.com/2016/11/28/del ... ndar-spam/
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http://arstechnica.com/information-tech ... lert-spam/
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Re: Bizarre interloper in Apple's Calendar App
And yet another "solution". http://osxdaily.com/2016/11/26/icloud-c ... vite-stop/
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