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Trojan-35 found. Now what?

MacBoobsPro

MacBoobsPro

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Thought I'd do a scan at work after I saw someone had attempted to download a video codec and 'open safe files' was ticked in Safari.

I ran the scan using ClamXav and it brought up the attached message. It says to leave the file where it is but isnt that defeating the object of eradicating virii and trojans? :confused:

What should I do bearing in mind we have thousands of email we could do with not losing :eek:
 

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Well it looks like you're using Mail, and the nice thing about Mail is that each message is considered a different file in the Finder -- so for each message, there is a corresponding file. If there is a bad attachment to one of them, you could delete just that individual message by trashing the file the program indicated.
 
ziggyonice said:
Well it looks like you're using Mail, and the nice thing about Mail is that each message is considered a different file in the Finder -- so for each message, there is a corresponding file. If there is a bad attachment to one of them, you could delete just that individual message by trashing the file the program indicated.
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So I need to check through my thousands of email for an iffy attachment?
 
Probably a windows trojan.
You have complete path in that image and exact name of the file, just delete that or duble click to open and then delete...
 
coolbits said:
Probably a windows trojan.
You have complete path in that image and exact name of the file, just delete that or duble click to open and then delete...
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Yeh figured it out thanks. It was a windows trojan. Stupid thing is whoever opened the email did nothing about it! :rolleyes:

All good!
 
I browsed to one of those fake anti-virus sites yesterday, which told me I had scores of virii and trojans. You know the ones that fake a windows screen.
I'm on a Mac dumbass . . . Safari still downloaded an exe file though. :rolleyes:

Anyway, my question is, if there was some OS X Malware on a website like a trojan, would it still require an administrator password to cause any damage or install a trojan or keylogger?
 
AndyMoore said:
I browsed to one of those fake anti-virus sites yesterday, which told me I had scores of virii and trojans. You know the ones that fake a windows screen.
I'm on a Mac dumbass . . . Safari still downloaded an exe file though. :rolleyes:
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I'd like an option in Safari to Never automatically download a file
 
DoFoT9 said:
HAHA its kinda hard to detect mac threats when there are none :rolleyes:

there probably are a few mac ones, im just being stupid
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Well now that you mention it... ;-)

You're not being stupid, but there are some threats. That said, they're minimal -- the programs in question aren't self-propagating, and they're quite rare in the wild.
 
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