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Jul 4th, 2006

Virus on Mac OS X?

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Hi, I'm a n00b I know. I always scan the forums and now I have a question...

Some random guy IMed me on AOL, who was from another forum I'm on and sent me this link. I clicked on it and it was code. (I'm normally not that stupid but I new him vaguely) Then his away message was on. I IMed him today and he said it's a virus that sends links to people and it's done nothing to his computer. He has a PC. My question is...

Should I be worried? since I run a mac and all? thanks. -Jen

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Re: Virus on Mac OS X?

macs are very hard to get virses. if his pc didn't get it,then yours probably won't so don't worry about it.

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Quote originally posted by TheNSS ...

macs are very hard to get virses. if his pc didn't get it,then yours probably won't so don't worry about it.

he did get it, it just sends IMs to people on your buddylist with the virus passing itself on. Thanks for your help though. I am somewhat relieved.

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Re: Virus on Mac OS X?

The most known Mac OS X virus is called the Leap-A virus. It transmits itself by a Trojan horse, whose filename is "latestpics.tga". When opened, it executes some code, and copies some files onto your hard drive. It then tried to send latestpics.tga to everyone on your iChat buddy list. You will not be notified when this is happening, but if your buddies open the file, they too will be infected by the virus.

You can find more about the virus here:
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Hello,

A Mac is a computer, and even under OS X, a very cool and awesome OS, it is possible to get a virus. Not likely, but possible.

If you are running on Mac OS X as a local administrator, you have a better chance of deeply infecting your machine than if you are a normal user.

Also, the standard rules of needing to backup to avoid loosing materials during a hardware failure also apply.

If you are interested in scanning your computer (I scan mine once a week), check out ClamAV.

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Hey, lets try to stay on topic, and not bash Windows or Macs, lets try to help the guy who needs it

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This is your second post going off topic, just to rant about Macs...

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Quote originally posted by TheNSS ...

you're all just mac lovers. ...

Is that suprising? What did you expect on a Mac forum? If you're a PC fan, say so on a forum about PCs.

Sheesh.

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Quote originally posted by TheNSS ...

well excuse me mr jeoprogrammer, if macs are so perfect then why doesn't vmware make their software available to macs? i know what you're gonna say: "well there are plenty of simulation programs for mac to go to a pc forum,bla bla bla bla bla bla bla blabla bla bla blabla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla." and macs can get viruses

As I stated before, there are viruses for Macs.
http://www.symantec.com/press/1998/n980714.html

I'm not saying that Macs are better than PCs. I'm not trying to defend Apple. I am simply saying that you are not being very helpful on this forum (do you even own a Mac??!), so keep out of this if you are not interested in other people's Mac problems.

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Quote originally posted by TheNSS ...

no i do not own a mac, i'm just trying to make you guys mad.

*Sigh*...... Will someone please close this thread?
And I'm noticing that TheNSS is deleting his previous posts......

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Now a days, if you have XP on your intel mac, then a virus caught on your XP os can screw up your entire computer...including OS X.

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