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Title: Calendar app Spam
Post by: krissel on December 01, 2016, 12:21:05 AM

I thought it was just me:

https://www.thestreet.com/story/13908310/1/...&yptr=yahoo

http://www.macrumors.com/2016/11/30/apple-...-calendar-spam/

http://arstechnica.com/information-technol...dar-alert-spam/

I got one of these in my Calendar application on my MBA last week. I don't use the Calendar so I was surprised to see a notification pop up in the corner on start-up.

[attachment=3347:ad_window.png][attachment=3344:other_UGG_ad.png]

I didn't know where it came from since there was nothing in Mail that corresponded to the ad.

I finally went into the prefs and unchecked the last choice here:

[attachment=3345:Cal_prefs.png]

Also changed to manually refreshing the calendar so these things won't constantly annoy me. Could also turn off Notifications as well, of course that limits the use of Calendar.

[attachment=3346:notif_prefs.png]

(I'm using 10.8.5 on the MBA so your choices may be different in your OS or follow the suggestions in the article.)

Title: Calendar app Spam
Post by: jchuzi on December 01, 2016, 06:16:01 AM

This gives me yet another reason to avoid iCloud.

Title: Calendar app Spam
Post by: kimmer on December 01, 2016, 05:37:48 PM

There was an article at TidBITS about this on 11/29, and I followed their instructions for prefs in iCloud; so for those who wish to use iCloud, here's additional information:

http://tidbits.com/article/16923

Title: Calendar app Spam
Post by: tacit on December 02, 2016, 03:16:36 AM

I've just started seeing this as well. For any new way people invent to share and communicate, some miscreant will use it as a vehicle for exploitation.