Re: How do you know if there is a virus in your mac and how to treat it ? Please help !

2010-09-09 Thread Tina K.
Ivan Bayter wrote: My sister just sent me this email it was send from my mac to her but I did not send it, and today when I turn my pc on I found that my date was wrong and also ask me a lot of question about allowing or denying incoming networks, please I don't know what to do, the first

Re: How do you know if there is a virus in your mac and how to treat it ? Please help !

2010-09-09 Thread Joshua Juran
On Sep 8, 2010, at 11:24 AM, Ashgrove wrote: On Sep 8, 2:09 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: I keep getting told by authoritative folks in the IT industry that there will be a flood of OS X malware any day now; I've been hearing that for ten years. Note that classic

Re: How do you know if there is a virus in your mac and how to treat it ? Please help !

2010-09-09 Thread Eric Volker
I keep getting told by authoritative folks in the IT industry that there will be a flood of OS X malware any day now; I've been hearing that for ten years. Any day now. I do wish you'd let those wonderful IT folks know about your discovery. I was delighted to discover recently that my

Re: How do you know if there is a virus in your mac and how to treat it ? Please help !

2010-09-08 Thread Ashgrove
Er... Adrian... cold virus? It was a joke, of course, although not a good one. Personally, I used ClamXav for a while when I first switched from Windows, until I finally realized it was a waste of RAM and uninstalled it. The OP seems to have several problems, all apparently unrelated, but until

Re: How do you know if there is a virus in your mac and how to treat it ? Please help !

2010-09-08 Thread Jack Suggs
Wallace, Sorry you didn't get a straight answer. What operating system are you using? FYI, two searches, one for Mac Virus, the other for Man Antivirus... http://www.google.com/search?q=virus%20for%20macie=utf-8oe=utf-8 http://www.google.com/search?q=mac%20antivirusie=utf-8oe=utf-8 -- You

Re: How do you know if there is a virus in your mac and how to treat it ? Please help !

2010-09-08 Thread Jack Suggs
Correction: That's Mac Antivirus... although for some guys, Man Antivirus might be a good thing to have. On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 1:42 AM, Jack Suggs jhs...@gmail.com wrote: Wallace, Sorry you didn't get a straight answer. What operating system are you using? FYI, two searches, one for Mac

Re: How do you know if there is a virus in your mac and how to treat it ? Please help !

2010-09-08 Thread Al Poulin
On Sep 8, 8:16 am, Jack Suggs jhs...@gmail.com wrote: Correction: That's Mac Antivirus... although for some guys, Man Antivirus might be a good thing to have. On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 1:42 AM, Jack Suggs jhs...@gmail.com wrote: Wallace, Sorry you didn't get a straight answer. What

Re: How do you know if there is a virus in your mac and how to treat it ? Please help !

2010-09-08 Thread Bill Chapman
I have Virtual PC 7 installed on 2 Macs. Here is confirmation that Macs can be infected: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/828574 On 08/09/10 12:08 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 1:59 AM, Ashgrove salum...@gmail.com mailto:salum...@gmail.com wrote: Virus on

Re: How do you know if there is a virus in your mac and how to treat it ? Please help !

2010-09-08 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
We took a poll years ago on the PCI list. Out of responses from that list and soem who responded with figures from other lists of about 2,500 listers only one real virus was found and that was something a company cooked up to scare Mac users into buying their product. And I read nothing of the

Re: How do you know if there is a virus in your mac and how to treat it ? Please help !

2010-09-08 Thread Ashgrove
Oh boy. Here we go again. By the way, nowadays viruses other than malware are usually nothing more than that: something a company cooks up to scare computer users into buying their product. And the most effective forms of malware are not viruses, but phishing, which require you to actively go to

Re: How do you know if there is a virus in your mac and how to treat it ? Please help !

2010-09-08 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Sep 8, 2010, at 9:03 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: And I read nothing of the current state of affairs to lead me to believe this has changed. If Mac OS X infecting bugs are out there they exist to sell preventative software. I'm sure Bruce or someone who must administer IT for a

Re: How do you know if there is a virus in your mac and how to treat it ? Please help !

2010-09-08 Thread Ashgrove
On Sep 8, 2:09 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: I keep getting told by authoritative folks in the IT industry that there will be a flood of OS X malware any day now; I've been hearing that for ten years. Amen to that. As a late switcher, it took me nearly a year to

Re: How do you know if there is a virus in your mac and how to treat it ? Please help !

2010-09-07 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Sep 7, 2010, at 9:42 AM, Ivan Bayter wrote: Hello guys, My sister just sent me this email it was send from my mac to her but I did not send it, and today when I turn my pc on I found that my date was wrong and also ask me a lot of question about allowing or denying incoming networks,

Re: How do you know if there is a virus in your mac and how to treat it ? Please help !

2010-09-07 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
Virus ON your Mac ? Highly unlikely unless you run Windows on the machine. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at

Re: How do you know if there is a virus in your mac and how to treat it ? Please help !

2010-09-07 Thread Ashgrove
Virus on your Mac? You're SO wrong, Wallace. Of course it's perfectly possible, say, if you have a cold and sneeze on it... Felix On Sep 7, 7:20 pm, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio fluxstrin...@gmail.com wrote:  Virus ON your Mac ? Highly unlikely unless you run Windows on the machine. -- You