Viruses who's had one

mac15 · Jan 24, 2002, 08:06 PM

On the mac platform you never encounture many viruses if any at all
But who has ever gotten a virus
I haven't

chibianh · Jan 24, 2002, 08:09 PM

oh wait... that was on my peecee..

spuncan · Jan 24, 2002, 08:22 PM

I have one that a friend put on my computer that ramdomly types a message in Word and IE but thats all never had any of those nasty one that are all but extinct.

eyelikeart · Jan 24, 2002, 08:29 PM

the closest I've ever seen of a Mac virus was a worm.....

Choppaface · Jan 24, 2002, 08:52 PM

one from a floppy I got from a friend a long time ago
another from a file I got from a friend, 666. luckily I saw it in the extensions folder somehow, zipped it, removed the .zip extension, then got norton to clean up the damage before removing it from the system.

other than that, I've had nothing else in 3 or 4 years of online time

3G4N · Jan 24, 2002, 11:38 PM

I got one back in the days of system7.

MS Word macro-virus. Didnt do much damage.

That must'a been, oh... 7 or 8 years ago?
...back when 20MB hard drives cost $400+

oldMac · Jan 25, 2002, 12:41 AM

I used to see a fair number of them back when I worked in OSU's computer labs. And, of course, there was that CD-ROM startup file worm from a few years ago. But, I must say, that my personal machine has never been infected.

abe · Jan 25, 2002, 01:36 AM

I've had 1 (Mac)virus between 1988 and 2002 ...

Even working with PCs, I always open and read my mails with a Mac. So I can see the infected mails with PC-viruses but they don't hard my Macs ... I love my Macs :-)

MacAztec · Jan 25, 2002, 01:48 AM

Yeah, i had one. Wait up, that was just bad memory. Sorry, no problemos here!

DakotaGuy · Jan 25, 2002, 02:25 AM

Never. And I even opened a couple of the virus emails before...not smart...but hey...it didn't do anything...

Pants · Jan 25, 2002, 05:58 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by 3G4N
I got one back in the days of system7.

MS Word macro-virus. Didnt do much damage.

That must'a been, oh... 7 or 8 years ago?
...back when 20MB hard drives cost $400+

we (well, me and 3 others) got smacked with a powerpoint/excel macro virus just before christmas resulting in the loss of 8 months worth of data.>

Id recommend checking out the 3 security updates at M$ for mac Office.

evanmarx · Jan 25, 2002, 06:09 AM

nope .. no viruses on my macs ... i got hit though on my pecees .... shtoopid nimda %&#$@

and i'm not even using antivirus on the mac ... but then again ... the FORCE may be with me ....

evanmarx · Jan 25, 2002, 06:10 AM

hip hip .. happy postday eyelikeart! you're 800!

(don't you have a job?) ;-)

Falleron · Jan 25, 2002, 07:20 AM

In about 15 years of using a mac I have never had a virus!!! However, whilst using a pc as well this year I have had 4 of them!! (I dont use a pc out of choice)

Abulafia · Jan 25, 2002, 07:53 AM

No viruses on any mac in our office for at the least four years.

Even GONER and NIMDA didn't effect any macs.
Plenty of PCs in loggin in to our network have.....
PEECEE administrators missed to update their antivirusprogs.

to bad.

Carsten

Six · Jan 25, 2002, 12:21 PM

On my school's dells, we get warning about every 2 weeks about viruses... i guess our school was hit badly with a couple viruses last year and the year before... i remember the "bubbleboy" threat.. blah..

As far as all my macs at home, since i've used since i was a wee child, i have never once had a virus.. I dont even have any anti virus programs, its great!

As far as other viruses.. I had this bad rash once............

Ensign Paris · Jan 25, 2002, 02:29 PM

yyyeeeee no! Never had a virus! (CEPT ON SCHOOls and works PCs!

eyelikeart · Jan 25, 2002, 02:36 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by evanmarx
hip hip .. happy postday eyelikeart! you're 800!

(don't you have a job?) ;-)

thank u

and yes I do have a job....however I'm in front of a computer all day long and have dsl internet. One reason Macs are great is the ability to multi-task....

he he he....

LordRPI · Jan 25, 2002, 02:40 PM

Back in 7.1 I accedintally let an nVIR A run loose on my computer... dispatched a couple of programs that were infected without me knowing about it...

evanmarx · Jan 25, 2002, 04:56 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by eyelikeart

and yes I do have a job....however I'm in front of a computer all day long and have dsl internet. One reason Macs are great is the ability to multi-task....

he he he....

yo ...m8 ... i'm sitting all day in front of two computers ... DSL and T1 ... but still ... i only got some lousy 25up posts .... ts ts ts

MaxRool · Jan 25, 2002, 05:17 PM

I had one once in about 1988, I think that was even pre system 7.
Can't even remeber what it was called.

It may have been nVirA or something like that.
I get .scr .exe .com .bat attachments sent to me now and again. And I just smile to myself.

Durandal7 · Jan 25, 2002, 11:39 PM

I have only gotten one virus and that was from an Aleph One download. I didn't actually notice it until I saw a notice on the website. All it did was install little resource forks in my files.

mmcneil · Jan 26, 2002, 04:20 PM

I got hit with the Cornell virus and a wide variety of other viruses a few years ago - nothing like the PCs on our network now though. We have industrial strength filtering and anti-virus and the PCs still get hit with viruses. Office macro viruses are the biggest problems for Macs lately, usually originating from a PC user

.

I worry that OSX is potentially quite a bit more vulnerable to all sorts of attacks so I run behind a firewall at home.

Sayer · Jan 26, 2002, 05:36 PM

Back in High School (1990-91 ish) I was teacher's aide for an Electronics class. We had a Mac Plus or something that was in an office area and I popped in one of my many floppies and the virus scanner caught something on it.

First time I ever had any virus on my disks/files. I don't even remember what it was or how I got it. More than likely it was from the user group file sharing disks my dad always got (back befor the Internet/AOL were common online storage systems).

Other than that I have never unintentionally gotten any virus, worm, trojan or backdoor.

I do have a collection of many vintage virii and accidentally launced an infected SimpleText and corrupted some System files a few years ago. I guess its a good thing I don't work with Anthrax or Ebola.

I also have the sources to Disinfectant, the only virus protection program I have ever used (not that I needed it).

crassusad44 · Jan 26, 2002, 07:25 PM

10 years, over 10 Macs, no viruses...

I do remember MacAddict had that auto-load CD-virus on their monthly CD once, but I never bought that edition.... Sorry MacAddict,

Jan 24, 2002, 08:06 PM	#1
mac15 macrumors 68040 Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Sydney	Viruses who's had one On the mac platform you never encounture many viruses if any at all But who has ever gotten a virus I haven't __________________ Check out my guiKitting at the theflanneleffect
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Jan 24, 2002, 08:09 PM	#2
chibianh macrumors 6502a Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Colorado	I have... oh wait... that was on my peecee..
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Jan 24, 2002, 08:22 PM	#3
spuncan macrumors 6502 Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Detroit	Never In a way I have one that a friend put on my computer that ramdomly types a message in Word and IE but thats all never had any of those nasty one that are all but extinct. __________________ Fight the System, Protect our Freedom people say you can't cheat at life, people lie
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Jan 24, 2002, 11:38 PM	#6
3G4N macrumors regular Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: 3rd star to the right	hello... newman. I got one back in the days of system7. MS Word macro-virus. Didnt do much damage. That must'a been, oh... 7 or 8 years ago? ...back when 20MB hard drives cost $400+
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Jan 25, 2002, 12:41 AM	#7
oldMac macrumors 6502a Join Date: Oct 2001	It's been a while... I used to see a fair number of them back when I worked in OSU's computer labs. And, of course, there was that CD-ROM startup file worm from a few years ago. But, I must say, that my personal machine has never been infected. __________________ software developer & Mac user
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Jan 24, 2002, 08:29 PM	#4
eyelikeart Demi-God (Moderator emeritus) Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Metairie, LA	the closest I've ever seen of a Mac virus was a worm.....
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Jan 24, 2002, 08:52 PM	#5
Choppaface macrumors 65816 Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: SFBA	one from a floppy I got from a friend a long time ago another from a file I got from a friend, 666. luckily I saw it in the extensions folder somehow, zipped it, removed the .zip extension, then got norton to clean up the damage before removing it from the system. other than that, I've had nothing else in 3 or 4 years of online time
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Jan 25, 2002, 01:36 AM	#8
abe macrumors member Join Date: Jan 2002	I've had 1 (Mac)virus between 1988 and 2002 ... Even working with PCs, I always open and read my mails with a Mac. So I can see the infected mails with PC-viruses but they don't hard my Macs ... I love my Macs :-)
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Jan 25, 2002, 01:48 AM	#9
MacAztec macrumors 68040 Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: San Luis Obispo, CA	I had one Yeah, i had one. Wait up, that was just bad memory. Sorry, no problemos here!
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Jan 25, 2002, 02:25 AM	#10
DakotaGuy macrumors 68030 Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: South Dakota, USA	Never. And I even opened a couple of the virus emails before...not smart...but hey...it didn't do anything... __________________ Mac: 21.5" iMac Core i5 2.5 Ghz "Sandy Bridge" iPad 2 64 GB WiFi - iPod Touch 2G 32 GB - iPod Classic 80GB - Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX
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Jan 25, 2002, 06:09 AM	#12
evanmarx macrumors member Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Switzerland	NOPE on this side of the atlantic nope .. no viruses on my macs ... i got hit though on my pecees .... shtoopid nimda %&#$@ and i'm not even using antivirus on the mac ... but then again ... the FORCE may be with me .... __________________ Microsoft is not the answer .. it's a question ... and the answer is NO ...
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Jan 25, 2002, 06:10 AM	#13
evanmarx macrumors member Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Switzerland	hooray! hip hip .. happy postday eyelikeart! you're 800! (don't you have a job?) ;-) __________________ Microsoft is not the answer .. it's a question ... and the answer is NO ...
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Jan 25, 2002, 07:20 AM	#14
Falleron macrumors 68000 Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: UK	In about 15 years of using a mac I have never had a virus!!! However, whilst using a pc as well this year I have had 4 of them!! (I dont use a pc out of choice)
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Jan 25, 2002, 07:53 AM	#15
Abulafia macrumors newbie Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Oldenburg, Germany	no viruses No viruses on any mac in our office for at the least four years. Even GONER and NIMDA didn't effect any macs. Plenty of PCs in loggin in to our network have..... PEECEE administrators missed to update their antivirusprogs. to bad. Carsten __________________ There is no beginning. Everything always starts here - in media res.
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Jan 25, 2002, 12:21 PM	#16
Six macrumors regular Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Cedar Rapids, Iowa	On my school's dells, we get warning about every 2 weeks about viruses... i guess our school was hit badly with a couple viruses last year and the year before... i remember the "bubbleboy" threat.. blah.. As far as all my macs at home, since i've used since i was a wee child, i have never once had a virus.. I dont even have any anti virus programs, its great! As far as other viruses.. I had this bad rash once............ __________________ I wanna work at Apple when I grow up...
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Jan 25, 2002, 02:29 PM	#17
Ensign Paris macrumors 68000 Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Europe	yyyeeeee no! Never had a virus! (CEPT ON SCHOOls and works PCs! __________________ Click here for my website.
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Jan 25, 2002, 02:40 PM	#19
LordRPI macrumors newbie Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: San Diego	Back in 7.1 I accedintally let an nVIR A run loose on my computer... dispatched a couple of programs that were infected without me knowing about it...
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Jan 25, 2002, 05:17 PM	#21
MaxRool macrumors member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Lives in Melbourne, works in Sydney	I had one once in about 1988, I think that was even pre system 7. Can't even remeber what it was called. It may have been nVirA or something like that. I get .scr .exe .com .bat attachments sent to me now and again. And I just smile to myself.
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Jan 25, 2002, 11:39 PM	#22
Durandal7 macrumors 68040 Join Date: Feb 2001	I have only gotten one virus and that was from an Aleph One download. I didn't actually notice it until I saw a notice on the website. All it did was install little resource forks in my files.
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Jan 26, 2002, 04:20 PM	#23
mmcneil macrumors regular Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: San Diego, CA	Viruses are out there for mac too I got hit with the Cornell virus and a wide variety of other viruses a few years ago - nothing like the PCs on our network now though. We have industrial strength filtering and anti-virus and the PCs still get hit with viruses. Office macro viruses are the biggest problems for Macs lately, usually originating from a PC user . I worry that OSX is potentially quite a bit more vulnerable to all sorts of attacks so I run behind a firewall at home. __________________ -------\|-------- (/____)-----* ====
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Jan 26, 2002, 05:36 PM	#24
Sayer macrumors 6502a Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Austin, TX	Got one, once Back in High School (1990-91 ish) I was teacher's aide for an Electronics class. We had a Mac Plus or something that was in an office area and I popped in one of my many floppies and the virus scanner caught something on it. First time I ever had any virus on my disks/files. I don't even remember what it was or how I got it. More than likely it was from the user group file sharing disks my dad always got (back befor the Internet/AOL were common online storage systems). Other than that I have never unintentionally gotten any virus, worm, trojan or backdoor. I do have a collection of many vintage virii and accidentally launced an infected SimpleText and corrupted some System files a few years ago. I guess its a good thing I don't work with Anthrax or Ebola. I also have the sources to Disinfectant, the only virus protection program I have ever used (not that I needed it). __________________ Obama is a true statesman whose experience as a state senator, half-term US Senator & guest lecturer in a Constitutional Law class has fully prepared him to take control of our nuclear arsenal.-Me
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Jan 26, 2002, 07:25 PM	#25
crassusad44 macrumors 6502a Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Scandinavia	No viruses for me 10 years, over 10 Macs, no viruses... I do remember MacAddict had that auto-load CD-virus on their monthly CD once, but I never bought that edition.... Sorry MacAddict, __________________ I sense much XP in you, XP leads to Blue Screen. Blue Screen leads to downtime, downtime leads to suffering. XP is the path to the darkside.
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