I had the benign version of the SevenDust virus last year.. I think it had some bugs because it kept crashing my apps but this version wasn't supposed to
Ajax solved it after booting from a CD... I hope X doesn't get any virii.. hacks/trojans are much more likely IMO because they can use the power of the system to do stuff for them.
I was the person that brought a Seven Dust - C (i.e. strain C - no payload) infected copy of Marathon Evil (accidently) to MacHack (the annual conference for leading-edge developers and other Mac-loving crackheads), spreading it all over the machine room at the conference.
Thankfully, the author of Disinfectant was present at the 'hack and he updated the app then and there to take care of the problem. I am not 100% sure, but I believe that was the last update to the now-essentially-defunct application. And all because of lil' ol me! <img src="graemlins/embarrassed.gif" border="0" alt="[Embarrassed]" />
SevenDust is the virus known for its "666" extension that hung around embedding itself into applications as they were run in the Finder. It only affects pre-OS X systems of course (and potentially Classic, I would imagine...)
-> Aslan wonders if Symantec is secretly paying virus-writers to develop OS X viruses to boost NAV sales? As of now, what does it even do? (besides waste cycles )
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Ajax solved it after booting from a CD... I hope X doesn't get any virii.. hacks/trojans are much more likely IMO because they can use the power of the system to do stuff for them.
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I bot Norton tho and it fixd it. No mor porblem sense, nock on would.
<strong>Man I got the virz on my OSeX machene once it suked i had to Reformat tehd rive.
I bot Norton tho and it fixd it. No mor porblem sense, nock on would.</strong><hr></blockquote>Damn, boy!
It sounds like more than just your computer got a virus.
We don't take kindly to 1337-speak around here... <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
I was the person that brought a Seven Dust - C (i.e. strain C - no payload) infected copy of Marathon Evil (accidently) to MacHack (the annual conference for leading-edge developers and other Mac-loving crackheads), spreading it all over the machine room at the conference.
Thankfully, the author of Disinfectant was present at the 'hack and he updated the app then and there to take care of the problem. I am not 100% sure, but I believe that was the last update to the now-essentially-defunct application. And all because of lil' ol me! <img src="graemlins/embarrassed.gif" border="0" alt="[Embarrassed]" />
SevenDust is the virus known for its "666" extension that hung around embedding itself into applications as they were run in the Finder. It only affects pre-OS X systems of course (and potentially Classic, I would imagine...)
-> Aslan wonders if Symantec is secretly paying virus-writers to develop OS X viruses to boost NAV sales? As of now, what does it even do? (besides waste cycles