SL Found a Trojan! (ithink)

[ceezy3000]

Well i went and downloaded a piece of software which shall remain nameless and when i went and tried to open the dmg sl told me it would make my mac less secure!

 

[rekhyt]

Well i went and downloaded a piece of software which shall remain nameless and when i went and tried to open the dmg sl told me it would make my mac less secure!

KNCScrew <-------

It shouldn't have a virus if you downloaded it from... A "reputable" source (If there are any) but if you want to take the risk...

 

[ceezy3000]

yea if it was any other piece of software but since its kcnscrew i took the warning. good thing there's a massive amount of freeware and open source apps for mac

 

[minusten]

If someone who's Mac has a Trojan emails me files (legitimate files in themselves) and I open them on Leopard or Snow Leopard, can I be infected with the Trojan too? It's not happened yet, but it would be useful to know.

 

[Guiyon]

That message usually does not mean a virus is present. It is displayed when the fsck (the filesystem integrity check) fails, usually it is when the disk image is corrupted somehow.

 

[old-wiz]

If someone who's Mac has a Trojan emails me files (legitimate files in themselves) and I open them on Leopard or Snow Leopard, can I be infected with the Trojan too? It's not happened yet, but it would be useful to know.

That's not the way Trojans work - you would have to attempt to install something which would require your admin password.

 

[MasterDev]

That message usually does not mean a virus is present. It is displayed when the fsck (the filesystem integrity check) fails, usually it is when the disk image is corrupted somehow.

Exactly, the disk image is just corrupted. Doesn't always mean it's a virus.

 

[JRoDDz]

Stay away from the Bittorrent warez man.

 

[haiggy]

Well i went and downloaded a piece of software which shall remain nameless

Fail.

 

[armoguy94]

LOL...Nice, downloading serial key databases and posting on Macrumors why it doesn't work. Priceless.

 

[MythicFrost]

If someone who's Mac has a Trojan emails me files (legitimate files in themselves) and I open them on Leopard or Snow Leopard, can I be infected with the Trojan too? It's not happened yet, but it would be useful to know.

I don't think so, I think a trojan is an application and will require your password to install it.
I may be wrong, but I think they'd have to e-mail you and application :O.

Kind Regards