hey everyone. i really hope some of yall can help me out. today i noticed on safari if i try and do a google search i get an error saying "i have spyware or a virus and the search cannot be completed." safari cant even bring up most pictures. i cant even see anyones avatars! i think i know the problem. i had my internet set up to use PPPoE instead of DHCP. i did this because i had problems hosting on warcraft with DHCP...the routers at the internet provider blocked my ports. so the PPPoE opened them up. but now anything can get into my computer! ive never had this problem after many years of using macs. i tried downloading ClamXav from macupdate as a free virus scanner. i checked safari but there were no viruses. i restarted...nothing changed. could this be a security flaw in tiger? i hope not. can someone please help me? i hate knowing something is wrong with my G5...thank you all.
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I have a virus!!
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Virus!cb08476B08wyrbv047G0v0bv0487GBVVirus!Virus!cb08476B08wyrbv047G0v0bv0487GBVVirus!Since when do macs get viruses? You might be mistaken old chap.
G5Unit said:
Since when do macs get viruses? You might be mistaken old chap.
maybe i am mistaken but im pretty sure im not...safari is really bugged. i have to do everything on firefox now. by the way...sorry for my poor english...not ready for school yet
applecrag said:
Yeah... I think that's a Google error. I've already seen that on a number of machines. I don't think it's your machine at all.
applecrag said:i dont know.
Go to where Safari is giving you an issue or showing you the spyware error. Press COMMAND+SHIFT+3, in order as how I stated, holding down one and then keeping it held down while pressing the next (at the end you should be holding all 3, and then let go).
On your desktop should be a file titled Picture 1.PNG (if you're on Tiger) Picture 1.pdf (Panther). Not sure about older than that.
Make a new post on this thread and there will be an option below the typing area called Manage Attachments. Click that and follow the instructions to attach an image!
Submit the post, and we'll look at the problem and tell you more.
I just got the error on Google recently.
You definitely DON'T have a virus. The problem is with the link. There's something in the link that Google doesn't like and that's the default splat that comes up.
Don't worry about it, search on.
You definitely DON'T have a virus. The problem is with the link. There's something in the link that Google doesn't like and that's the default splat that comes up.
Don't worry about it, search on.
applecrag said:
The first time I saw that was on a Windows XP machine running FireFox. I've also gotten it on my G5 (FireFox also).
I think I did a search on a URL and it gave me that error every time. Searched for other things and it worked fine.
applecrag said:actually all i searched for was "apple." must be a google bug though. thanks for the help guys...yall are great!
Yeah, "Apple" searches are coming up fine for me now but it was still probably just a Google problem.
Plymouthbreezer said:Like OMFG are we sure?
Fairly sure!!!!1111oneone!1
I do remember now that I got this Google error while trying to link to an image from their image search.