Virus
Hi all,
a dude sent ma a mail last week and he said i've had sent him a mail with a virus. I don't know him, he doesn't know me, he's not in my adress book.
The virus was such a klez thing which i remember from my windows world, yuk.
So,
1. Is my mac infected? (I don't notice a difference really)
2. How to get rid of it? (delete junk mails? Get a virusscanner?)
3. In the windows world normally a virus looks in the adress book to resend itself, that dude wasn't in my adress book, <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
Tanx for any help.
a dude sent ma a mail last week and he said i've had sent him a mail with a virus. I don't know him, he doesn't know me, he's not in my adress book.
The virus was such a klez thing which i remember from my windows world, yuk.
So,
1. Is my mac infected? (I don't notice a difference really)
2. How to get rid of it? (delete junk mails? Get a virusscanner?)
3. In the windows world normally a virus looks in the adress book to resend itself, that dude wasn't in my adress book, <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
Tanx for any help.
Comments
send him to <a href="http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[email protected]"; target="_blank">this</a> web page. if he reads up he'll notice that klez spoofs the sent address when it mails itself out. you are in someone else's address book who is infected, but it's not you.
<strong>if you're on a mac you can't be infected.
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Just to clarify: you can't be infected with the Klez virus. A lot of people seem to think that Unix/MacOS X is immune to viri, which it is not.
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Just to clarify: you can't be infected with the Klez virus. A lot of people seem to think that Unix/MacOS X is immune to viri, which it is not.</strong><hr></blockquote>
can or can't?
what do you make of <a href="http://forums.appleinsider.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=7&t=002997"; target="_blank">this?</a>
OS X is currently immune to viruses written in VBA to target Outlook (and/or Outlook + Office) on Windows, which is about 90% of them. Remote login, ftpd, telnetd and httpd are disabled by default, which shuts out most UNIX worms. It might well be possible to write a virus to target OS X, but it would probably have to specifically target OS X, and apparently Apple has made it difficult enough (especially relative to the amount of havoc you could wreak by targeting OS X vs. Windows 2000, say) that nobody's released one yet.
It's not an excuse for complacency, but it is a real platform advantage that doesn't look like it'll go away soon. MS is apparently repositioning Office - the #1 virus target, not least because of the incredible ease with which it can be attacked and used to devastate the host machine - as an enterprise application platform. That'll be fun.
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however, i was referring to klez. sorry, should have been more clear.
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can or can't?
what do you make of <a href="http://forums.appleinsider.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=7&t=002997"; target="_blank">this?</a></strong><hr></blockquote>
Mac OS X is immune to any windows executable and boot-sector virus. Word-macro viruses may still apply to an extent, but I don't know enough about those to comment. From what I can tell, Microsoft's Entourage does not support VBScript (one of the worst culprits), so it should be immune to spreading Windows' viri as well.
However, Mac OS X tailored executable and possibly boot-sector viri could still be written and effective. Fortunately, most virus writers would want to target Windows due to market share, so this isn't yet much of an issue.
Is there an online scanner somewhere?
<strong>Macs are immune to the effects of any virus, but they CAN retransmit them to others</strong><hr></blockquote>
Macs are immune to any Windows virus.