Updating iOS

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Updating iOS

I just updated both my iPhone 6 and my iPad air to iOS 9.0.1. The installation on my iphone went fine, but when I updated my iPad, all my Yahoo mail accounts started popping up telling me I needed to re-enter my passwords. Why would it do that on my iPad and not my phone? I also got a bunch of e-mails from Yahoo saying I logged in from iOS when previously I never got anything like that when I logged on from my Apple devices. Maybe it is something new with Yahoo, but for some reason Yahoo can't recognize much. When I look at the open sessions in my Yahoo security, it identifies my other Apple products except for my ipad and iphone. I have both an iMac and a Macbook Pro. For those it says "Firefox Mac OSX" and there are two of them.

The recent login (after I updated my iPad) is showing up as "like Gecko, iOS). The ip address associated with that login matches my router's address, so it couldn't have been a security issue.

The "like Gecko, iOS" is very strange though. Does anyone happen to know what that could be? It is probably a Yahoo issue, but contacting Yahoo is impossible.

Something I know someone here can answer is my question of why my iPhone didn't ask for all my Yahoo passwords again after the update while my iPad did. The notifications were coming right after another, not letting my finish entering one password while the another one popped up. I use 4 Yahoo accounts on my devices. I was able to get that situated, but it just seemed weird to me. Did this happen to anyone else?

iPad Air 2 Wi-Fi, iOS 9.0.1

Posted on Sep 24, 2015 11:42 AM

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Saudjie

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May 22, 2017 8:56 AM in response to Vanillak

I was trying to contact yahoo about a dodgy email that says it's from Yahoo and wants me to verify my email address. While I was trying to find a way to contact Yahoo, which is become very difficult these days, I stumbled upon an area of my Yahoo account that I've never seen before. It showed 10 " like gecko Plaut episodes.

What is "like gecko "?

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Saudjie

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May 22, 2017 9:04 AM in response to Vanillak

who informed me that my yahoo accounts are part of the millions of people who had their Yahoo account hacked. I've been actually trying to use things like WhatsApp who claim to be encrypted all the way from sender to receiver.

I have four Yahoo accounts and use them for business but keep positive information in an encrypted area. I am not able to get ahold of Yahoo which is why in desperation I went to google and typed in "like gecko".. at least I know I'm not alone. And btw I do like geckos.

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Answer 3

May 22, 2017 9:16 AM in response to Saudjie

Hi Saudjie. "Like gecko" is just part of the string the browser returns to identify itself. It's just a silly way of saying it works like the original Netscape browser ("Mozilla", hence gecko). So, a server may record that you logged in from a "like gecko" browser. Safari is one of those. You can see this info for your browser at this link: http://www.whoishostingthis.com/tools/user-agent/.

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Nov 12, 2015 2:19 PM in response to Vanillak

Your Internet provider may use proxy servers in another area. These can be located in a different city than the one you are in. As a result you may see login activity that looks suspicious, but really is your own. I've been told that "like Gecko" is a Mozilla Firefox browser. Check your IP address at whatismyipaddress.com

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aoomRT

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Feb 19, 2016 5:39 PM in response to Vanillak

it was happen to me

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ckuan

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Feb 19, 2016 5:49 PM in response to Vanillak

Removed due to OP date.

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bilca68

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Dec 16, 2016 12:41 AM in response to Vanillak

I saw the same thing when changing my password.

After a bit of browsing I found that Apple is using parts of Morzilla Firefox in their iOS apps and identifying it with "like Gecko".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_for_iOS

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Gecko

In the yahoo security settings you can also check the ip address of the login. In my case it is the WAN IP of the router, not the IP of the machine of the subnet (That's what routers do).

For me the information in the link + IP check is ok to trust "like Gecko"

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