Virus invasion

2013-01-26 Thread Mary Scott
Hi all, If the Apple store people say you need to pay $200 to wipe your computer clean of viruses that have invaded everything, does that make sense? Is there another way? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this

Re: Virus invasion

2013-01-26 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Well, can you give a little more detail about what viruses these are, how they got there, what they are doing, etc? And what is that the apple store wants to do to wipe it? -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer.

Re: Virus invasion

2013-01-26 Thread Mark Baxter
I would be very sure this isn't a scam or hoax of some kind. So far as Im aware, Mountain Lion is not susceptible to foreign ware of any kind; you MUST give authentication and a password before anything install on your computer. If this is *NOT* the case, and it's some sort of java-based

Re: Virus invasion

2013-01-26 Thread Cameron Strife
Hi. $200? Hm. That sounds very high indeed for reformatting a hard drive and reinstalling OSX, if that is what this turns out to be. I wouldn't even pay that much if it included a replacement hard drive. If a reformat and reinstall of OSX is the case, you can do that at home for free as

Re: Virus invasion

2013-01-26 Thread Phil Halton
Rumery blindfait...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2013 5:45 PM Subject: Re: Virus invasion Mary, There is no need to pay Apple $200 to do something that you can do yourself at home. Remember that unlike on Windows we can reinstall the operating