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Trojan
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Since you spare details I'll just tell you to delete MSN and reinstall it. And one last bit, Macs don't get Trojans or Viruses. No really, they don't.
Correction: While there are presently no viruses in the wild that affect Macs, there are trojans that Mac users can get, but they have to be actively installed, which involves entering your administrator password.
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well it is sending itself via msn, and i aint sure what it is, but a pc user said it was a trojan, i looked it up and it is possible. maybe there are such things for macs now. i dont know. maybe we are a different breed. the amount of pc users that dont like macs. i think they enjoy a hard life or something...
well it is sending itself via msn, and i aint sure what it is, but a pc user said it was a trojan, i looked it up and it is possible. maybe there are such things for macs now. i dont know. maybe we are a different breed. the amount of pc users that dont like macs. i think they enjoy a hard life or something...
It is equally likely that someone simply stole your LiveID and is using your ID to send spam. Change your password!!
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You are not even explaining what it is thats happening. What does "it is sending itself via MSN" mean? It's not a trojan, like it has been said many times before there are none and if you really had one you would know it because you have to enable it yourself.
Suggestion: DON'T take advice about your Mac from a PC user! They have NO idea how Macs work and their advice will be based on their Windows/virus/trojan/spyware experiences.... which don't relate to Mac OS X.
Neither viruses (which you don't have) nor trojans (which you probably don't have) affect your graphics card.
Too many new Mac users, when they don't understand something that's going on with their Mac, immediately assume it's a virus or trojan or malware. The probability is extremely high that it's simply something you don't understand. If you give more details about what exactly is happening, perhaps we can help you identify the problem.
If any such "trojans" commonly appeared on Macs then perhaps what you've said would be worth stating, but there's no need in propagating such tales of mysterious trojans on the Mac. Cause they really do nothing but scare people about something that they have virtually no reason to worry about.
I know you're trying to help, but even if you download tons of files from Azeureus or bitorrent or other P2P stuff the chance of getting a Trojan on a Mac is pretty close to 0%.
Your MSN is being used by a bot, and I've had this happen to me before. Change your password, and scour your offline lists for any addresses you don't recognise and remove them.
As for your graphics card, I find that a bit odd. Maybe you were asking it to do too much. Maybe you had an iTunes visualiser running that you forgot about (I know some custom ones eat GPU speed).
And on the subject of viruses, trojans, worms and general malware:
You will not have a virus. End of. You may have a trojan but the chances are so close to nil I'd wear out my zero key trying to type them in. Worms can't operate in the OS X environment (or so I was told by a technician) and in general malware doesn't work neither.
As for your graphics card, I find that a bit odd. Maybe you were asking it to do too much. Maybe you had an iTunes visualiser running that you forgot about (I know some custom ones eat GPU speed).
And on the subject of viruses, trojans, worms and general malware:
You will not have a virus. End of. You may have a trojan but the chances are so close to nil I'd wear out my zero key trying to type them in. Worms can't operate in the OS X environment (or so I was told by a technician) and in general malware doesn't work neither.
If you think that the possibility of installing a trojan on a Mac is 0%, or that there are only "tales of mysterious trojans", insinuating that they're not real, then you are truly naive. The fact is there ARE trojans in the wild that Mac users can and DO get. While they're not as commonplace as Windows trojans, they DO exist, so it's always worth stating that users should be careful where they get software and what they install.
I second that, and specically DON'T go downloading new codecs for quicktime in order to watch that free adult video.
