I just posted this: http://forums.appleinsider.com/showt...=1#post2034564
about a trojan:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Troja...t-138453.shtml
which I acquired recently. Anyway, we managed to figure out the problem and get rid of it with ClamXAV.
Now, I wonder if someone here might be able to help me with an iTunes problem. I have used iTunes for several years w/o problems (except I can't find out how to switch identities and take my tunes with me). I use an iPod Nano (several years old) and I keep copies on my computer and also on an external hard drive. I have bought a few tunes from the iTunes store but mostly download from other sources, all legitimate purchases or free downloads.
About two weeks ago, I came back to Canada from Mexico which is where I picked up the trojan. After downloading the malware (didn't know it at the time, of course) I had trouble connecting to the Internet so didn't use my computer much -- at the time I thought it was just the server but other people were doing okay with the same server so it's suspicious.
Anyway, back in Canada, I went to my iTunes and it was empty!! Not a file left. No Playlists. Nada.
I used Spotlight to access the same files on my computer and they were now listed in iTunes whereas before they had been in separate folders with different names. When I clicked on a file on my computer it played and that one file was then in iTunes.
This is both weird and upsetting. I wrote to another forum for help and was told something like, "computers don't disappear files, people do" and no one would talk to me except to advise that I should take the time to learn about iTunes. Big help.
What I want is to be able to add to my iPod w/o it being wiped clean or something equally disastrous.
I can, I suppose, manually find all the mp3 files on my computer and put them back in iTunes. Probably won't do that because I don't know why they vanished in the first place.
I'm hoping someone here will say "oh, that's an easy one". Well, I can hope!
Thank you.
about a trojan:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Troja...t-138453.shtml
which I acquired recently. Anyway, we managed to figure out the problem and get rid of it with ClamXAV.
Now, I wonder if someone here might be able to help me with an iTunes problem. I have used iTunes for several years w/o problems (except I can't find out how to switch identities and take my tunes with me). I use an iPod Nano (several years old) and I keep copies on my computer and also on an external hard drive. I have bought a few tunes from the iTunes store but mostly download from other sources, all legitimate purchases or free downloads.
About two weeks ago, I came back to Canada from Mexico which is where I picked up the trojan. After downloading the malware (didn't know it at the time, of course) I had trouble connecting to the Internet so didn't use my computer much -- at the time I thought it was just the server but other people were doing okay with the same server so it's suspicious.
Anyway, back in Canada, I went to my iTunes and it was empty!! Not a file left. No Playlists. Nada.
I used Spotlight to access the same files on my computer and they were now listed in iTunes whereas before they had been in separate folders with different names. When I clicked on a file on my computer it played and that one file was then in iTunes.
This is both weird and upsetting. I wrote to another forum for help and was told something like, "computers don't disappear files, people do" and no one would talk to me except to advise that I should take the time to learn about iTunes. Big help.
What I want is to be able to add to my iPod w/o it being wiped clean or something equally disastrous.
I can, I suppose, manually find all the mp3 files on my computer and put them back in iTunes. Probably won't do that because I don't know why they vanished in the first place.
I'm hoping someone here will say "oh, that's an easy one". Well, I can hope!
Thank you.
