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Help, My Mac Has a Virus! Huh? 14 Years Ago by khess …"]Intego[/URL] [URL="http://www.intego.com/news/hellrts-backdoor-can-allow-malicious-remote-users-to-control-macs.asp… invincible [URL="http://www.apple.com"]Mac[/URL]: HellRTS.D Backdoor. Yep, that's right, a Mac virus just… Fanboys strangely silent about secret Mac OS X security update 13 Years Ago by happygeek … new version earlier this week. The OSX/Pinhead-B (AKA HellRTS amongst Apple security aficionados) update, in the file XProtect.plist… Re: Help, My Mac Has a Virus! Huh? 13 Years Ago by ZackPollard I find this amusing, Macs have been able to get virus' for years! They're just as vunerable, if not more vunerable to attack than Windows, due to the fact most big company who earn alot of money with design and manufacture use mac based systems, when will we learn, that linux is one of the only operating systems which don't get infected...Anyone … Re: Help, My Mac Has a Virus! Huh? 13 Years Ago by bluejeanbaby Hi. My lingo won't be that correct, but here it is. My friends imac had a virus come through his machine before xmas. Pretty sure it came through an email, anyways, the end result was this Islamic crap that just bombarded all over the screen. Just for a minute. Then poof. Gone. Never to be seen again. No one even ever saw it but for me. Then, … Re: Help, My Mac Has a Virus! Huh? 13 Years Ago by ZackPollard Ever thought of just running Virus protection? Although saying that...I haven't run virus protection for atleast 4 years of using computers, I've had one virus, which was from my flatmate going on a porno site on my laptop. I reguarly download stuff, music, videos, from certain torrent websites, I've NEVER had a virus that I've got from my own … Re: Help, My Mac Has a Virus! Huh? 13 Years Ago by bluejeanbaby It wasn't my machine... altho i must confess... I haven't checked my owned lately :( So. My scathlingly brilliant flash drive idea didn't work. So I guess my last and final option is to run off to some store to pay some outrageous price for a crossover cable. I'm G5, he's G4. Depending on the price, which I haven't researched yet and am afraid... … Re: Help, My Mac Has a Virus! Huh? 13 Years Ago by Jkirk3279 "I'd like to write a virus for a Mac that makes the single Mac mouse button emulate a two or three button mouse." Actually Macs have been multi-button mouse capable for about ten years. Re: Help, My Mac Has a Virus! Huh? 13 Years Ago by Jkirk3279 "Anyone ever had a virus on a Linux distro?" Check Wikipedia ... 14 weak Linux viruses that hardly amount to a threat. Still, that means OS/X is out ahead even of Linux. Viruses aren't about market share alone: OS X has more market share than Linux. Yet Linux has 14 viruses. It's about platform loyalty. Mac Users are the least … Re: Help, My Mac Has a Virus! Huh? 13 Years Ago by Jkirk3279 "My friends imac had a virus come through his machine before xmas. Pretty sure it came through an email, anyways, the end result was this Islamic crap that just bombarded all over the screen. Just for a minute. Then poof. Gone." No, that was a Kernel Panic. Very rare, and it almost always means you have a hardware problem. Five … Re: Help, My Mac Has a Virus! Huh? 13 Years Ago by dgroyer Hi I had a virus on a flash drive if I put it in a Mac I would have a kernel panic formatted it on a PC and then every thing was fine. :) Re: Help, My Mac Has a Virus! Huh? 13 Years Ago by da8iwr Amazing that a virus software company should find a virus... not of course a marketing ploy to try and worry people enough into buy their special software and open a new market that for years has been closed. ESET have provided a virus software for Mac’s for years, in all the time I have been using it, with all the dodgy sites I have visited (as … Re: Help, My Mac Has a Virus! Huh? 13 Years Ago by Jkirk3279 [QUOTE=bluejeanbaby;1194724]It wasn't my machine... altho i must confess... I haven't checked my owned lately :( So. My scathlingly brilliant flash drive idea didn't work. So I guess my last and final option is to run off to some store to pay some outrageous price for a crossover cable. I'm G5, he's G4. Depending on the price, which I haven't … Re: Help, My Mac Has a Virus! Huh? 13 Years Ago by Lizz77 To Jkirk3279- are you sure it was a kernel panic if it was there only for a moment? Kernel panics aren't able to go away without reboot. Perhaps a different error message with multiple languages? Re: Help, My Mac Has a Virus! Huh? 13 Years Ago by Jkirk3279 I searched, but can't find any other error message that would match the description. It occurs to me that a glitch could have forced a restart if "restart after power outage" was enabled. At any rate, with the cheap prices on 500 GB drives these days, I'd replace the HD, reseat the RAM, and reset the NVRAM. Re: Help, My Mac Has a Virus! Huh? 13 Years Ago by operation108 lolz windows=1337 system way better and more customizable mac=n00b system that cant play any good games and any virus comes up i just use system restore cause i have external hard drive for backup and as bonus i have avast! antivirus FTW And if you play MW2 I will kill all you ****ing CAMPERS!!! all of you [U]mac users[/U] are FNGz ☺ Re: Help, My Mac Has a Virus! Huh? 13 Years Ago by foo_fighter Just FWI Macs do have, and have had for years, a virus. Its just preloaded when it leaves the factory and goes by the clever nickname OSX. Plus don't even try bringing up cost. After paying over 1k for your piece of white trash your OS upgrades should be free. $700+$66 is still WAY less than $1000+$45. Re: Help, My Mac Has a Virus! Huh? 13 Years Ago by Jasonraces Actually there has been a mac virus and it has nothing to do with loyalty to "the brand". It has everything to do with the amount of people using that os, and how quickly apple can secure the situation, there are way more people on pc's still then there were in 95 and until the day that mac starts to fill everyones homes hackers and virus… Re: Help, My Mac Has a Virus! Huh? 12 Years Ago by totalapps really funny story, thanks! I believe that antimalware [URL="http://www.totalapps.net/"]mac apps[/URL] will keep our computers protected Re: Fanboys strangely silent about secret Mac OS X security update 13 Years Ago by penguiniator ... How can you be surprised that no one is expressing outrage? The source of outrage toward Microsoft's security practices is simply that they cherry pick the vulnerabilities to publish and then use the number of those publicised vulnerabilities as if that were all the vulnerabilities they know about. Then they contrast that number with bug … Re: Fanboys strangely silent about secret Mac OS X security update 13 Years Ago by bastones The question is, would Apple admit/publicise the update anyway? No. I only think Microsoft would publicise big threats and vulnerabilities that would affect a large Windows audience, such as a vulnerability in IE that could affect millions of people. I'm not too in the know-how with trojans, malware, whatever on Macs but I think all need user … Re: Fanboys strangely silent about secret Mac OS X security update 13 Years Ago by happygeek OK, firstly if you had ever read any of my output you would not come to the conclusion that I'm a Microsoft fanboy, quite the opposite I would imagine. Secondly, people get to know about the Apple update in the same way they get to know about the Microsoft updates that have been done 'secretly' in that they read the news stories that appear. … Re: Fanboys strangely silent about secret Mac OS X security update 13 Years Ago by macmad Thats funny, I read about it this week and I don't make a living writing articles, which I would investigate to make sure that what I state is true! Re: Fanboys strangely silent about secret Mac OS X security update 13 Years Ago by penguiniator [QUOTE=happygeek;1252897]... people get to know about the Apple update in the same way they get to know about the Microsoft updates that have been done 'secretly'[/QUOTE] You quote the word secret as if I were the one to characterize the update that way. You did, not me. [QUOTE]... in that they read the news stories that appear.[/QUOTE] … Re: Fanboys strangely silent about secret Mac OS X security update 13 Years Ago by dioioib Firstly how are we calling this a real threat? The program in question is a trojan which requires some really stupid people to manually install it by entering in their root password. Anyone can be affected by trojan's if they install them, the real threat was the use of social engineering and calling the program iPhoto to trick users into running … Re: Fanboys strangely silent about secret Mac OS X security update 13 Years Ago by macmad Well said dioioib!! Re: Fanboys strangely silent about secret Mac OS X security update 13 Years Ago by happygeek yawn! Re: Fanboys strangely silent about secret Mac OS X security update 13 Years Ago by dioioib happygeek I expected more of a debate, not laying down and sleeping. Re: Fanboys strangely silent about secret Mac OS X security update 13 Years Ago by happygeek Sorry. Perhaps I should have said 'meh' instead. :) (this is an eight month old news story after all...) Re: Fanboys strangely silent about secret Mac OS X security update 13 Years Ago by Danarchy I started on Windows and swiftly moved to Apple within a year of dealing with Windows security. Now I only maintain friends' Windows machines. I don't trust Apple as far as security patches much either. I've not updated from 10.6.5 to 10.6.6 since I've found no sure way to disable the App Store program, even though there are security fixes and … Re: Fanboys strangely silent about secret Mac OS X security update 13 Years Ago by dioioib Interesting you are alleging browser hijacking in OSX I have never seen that ever. I do agree with you on the App Store thing though. I am not a fan of the move to a seemingly iTunes like distribution method. This is where I will actually start to show some distain for the Apple brand. 1) I don't go with the flow and iPhone app store forces …