Im a fairly new escapee from the Windows-PC camp. Ive run into a problem with my MBP that I cant work through on my own. Im hoping that someone here will take great pity on me and help me solve it, and hopefully, to learn something from this experience, too.
About 2 weeks ago I learned that one of my credit card numbers had been stolen and used. I had used it for limited internet shopping at sites I know and trust, but I ran a virus checker on the computer anyway.
My MBP has both mac and windows running on Boot Camp. I ran ClamX on the mac side, and it identified 4 instances of Trojan.Zlob attached to a MediaTubeCodec on emails found in Trash. (I had deleted the emails without opening them as soon as they came in.) The files were removed to Quarantine. My understanding is that this is a windows trojan, so no harm done but possibly anemail threat to my windows-using friends.
Then I checked my email and noticed an odd header on an incoming message. I found that it also contained an attachment that had been scanned and stripped of the virus W32/MyDoom-O. By the end of the day, 3 more emails came in with similar infected files, each one a zipped text file carrying the same virus. Again, no harm done . . . but now I was getting that old Microcrap-PC feeling back again, so I ran deep scans on both the mac and the windows sides.
ClamX found nothing new on the mac side. And on the windows side Avast AV (free edition) did not find anything there, but it did find ClamXs quarantined files and another virus on the mac side. Avast identified the new virus as a virus/worm named Body Count -1078, located on the mac hard drive at \private\var\vm\sleepimage.
I could see the macs sleepimage file and the \private\ folders from the windows side, but I could not see any of it in Finder on the mac side. I researched Body Count-1078 and learned that it is also called IFOR.1078, and that it is a DOS-based File Infector. I assume it wont hurt anything on the mac side, but I want to get all this garbage out of here!
I searched these forums for answers, but my brain started smoking and I could smell something burning inside my head, so I decided to write to the forum and get some advice from the learned and the wise.....
How can I get rid of this infected file if I cant see it on the mac side?
And if I cant get rid of it, will I infect my windows-using email buddies?
Am I even safe to go out in cyber-public with this on my computer?
Can any of these infected files have anything to do with my stolen credit card?
And why-oh-why is my MBP under such attack lately?
And can anybody tell me where odd socks go when they disappear in the dryer?
(sigh)
About 2 weeks ago I learned that one of my credit card numbers had been stolen and used. I had used it for limited internet shopping at sites I know and trust, but I ran a virus checker on the computer anyway.
My MBP has both mac and windows running on Boot Camp. I ran ClamX on the mac side, and it identified 4 instances of Trojan.Zlob attached to a MediaTubeCodec on emails found in Trash. (I had deleted the emails without opening them as soon as they came in.) The files were removed to Quarantine. My understanding is that this is a windows trojan, so no harm done but possibly anemail threat to my windows-using friends.
Then I checked my email and noticed an odd header on an incoming message. I found that it also contained an attachment that had been scanned and stripped of the virus W32/MyDoom-O. By the end of the day, 3 more emails came in with similar infected files, each one a zipped text file carrying the same virus. Again, no harm done . . . but now I was getting that old Microcrap-PC feeling back again, so I ran deep scans on both the mac and the windows sides.
ClamX found nothing new on the mac side. And on the windows side Avast AV (free edition) did not find anything there, but it did find ClamXs quarantined files and another virus on the mac side. Avast identified the new virus as a virus/worm named Body Count -1078, located on the mac hard drive at \private\var\vm\sleepimage.
I could see the macs sleepimage file and the \private\ folders from the windows side, but I could not see any of it in Finder on the mac side. I researched Body Count-1078 and learned that it is also called IFOR.1078, and that it is a DOS-based File Infector. I assume it wont hurt anything on the mac side, but I want to get all this garbage out of here!
I searched these forums for answers, but my brain started smoking and I could smell something burning inside my head, so I decided to write to the forum and get some advice from the learned and the wise.....
How can I get rid of this infected file if I cant see it on the mac side?
And if I cant get rid of it, will I infect my windows-using email buddies?
Am I even safe to go out in cyber-public with this on my computer?
Can any of these infected files have anything to do with my stolen credit card?
And why-oh-why is my MBP under such attack lately?
And can anybody tell me where odd socks go when they disappear in the dryer?
(sigh)
