trojan

[Detektiv-Pinky]

True, in an academic sense. In a practical sense, it's extremely unlikely that a Mac AV will find a Mac trojan on a computer.

It is also very unlikely that your Harddrive crashes tomorrow, still it is recommended to run backups on your files.

Better be safe than sorry!

 

[chrono1081]

If it's a virus, it's a Windows virus, which can't run on Mac OS X and would have no effect on your system. Mac virus scanners detect Windows viruses, to help prevent you from sending them to PCs.

+1 I use my mac to disinfect windows hard drives all the time. Windows and Mac have two VERY different ways of operating. It is not possible for windows executables to execute on a mac and infect the mac. You can PUT a virus file on a mac but the virus can't do anything. Mac doesn't have the type of system the virus needs to run.

If someone tries to tell you otherwise they need to go learn computer science.

Also Norton is flat out awful. My bet would be it found a false positive. We use symantec (same company) at work and its always finding legitimate things that it things are viruses.I work in IT so I use it a lot.

 

[Gregg2]

It does have to do with what you said, because trojans do exist on Macs. I've never once said there's any viruses. You just seem to focus on virus, while I'm focusing on malicious file types.

No, it doesn't. Not at all. Yeah, my focus was on viruses. That's why.

 

[BAFFLED]

Virus Email-157 also called 41161.emix

Protectmac antivirus has found this virus , which I successfully remove, then within the hour its back !! Can anyone help ?

Yes, as there are currently no known and published Mac OS X viruses.

As said before (here and in many, many, many, ..., many other threads), the AV software scans only for known threats, and thus looks mostly for Windows threats.

Unless you have friends, colleagues or family members who use Windows and don't have AV software on their computers and you exchange files with them a lot and you feel responsible for the well being of the computers of other people, there is really no need to have AV software clog down YOUR system.

i posted on another mac forum, which i am sure some of you are also members of. i was told that mac does not have any viruses out there, but i just don't understand why my norton antivirus would then find a virus and quarantine it. it has to be something. it can't be nothing at all?

my safari froze and then i couldn't get back online even though i had an interet connection. it was very unusual and suspicious. once i cleared the cache and reset safari, i was able to get back on. however, i would get random failed pages trying to tell me i wasn't connected to the internet. then after refreshing, it loaded.

i ran a norton antivirus scan tonight after having the problem and it found a trojan byteverify (i think). it was very quick and once i told it to fix it, it quarantined it, but i am almost positive that is what it said.

norton quarantined the file. it was in my library cache - in the java and is a zip file. the name of the file is user/library/cache/javapil/v1.0/jar/gsb50.jar - 112aa26 - 46386e8.zip. all norton says in the quarantine folder is that it is a file and is infected.

i did a second scan and it says there are no viruses found. however, the scan is unusually fast. (which happened to me on a pc that had a trojan virus i could not remove).

i also scanned with macscan and it says there is no spyware.

i was just wondering how to know if the virus or malware is completely gone. i have seen debates between some people who say macs cannot get viruses and then others who say they can. i just know the computer was acting weird and then norton found the trojan, so it just seems strange to me.

thank-you for any help you can provide. a couple of you may have helped me already and i really appreciate it. i am just confused about this whole thing. again, thanks so much!

 

[Gregg2]

Protectmac antivirus has found this virus , which I successfully remove, then within the hour its back !! Can anyone help ?

Your computer is a _____.
Your operating system is ______ version ______.

If there is a virus on your Mac, it cannot harm your Mac. It may do harm to your friends' Windows PCs if you pass it on to them.

 

[coolbits]

When osx virus appears it will be talks all over the internet even before antiviruses update their definitons...

So internet is osx best antivirus

 

[Jason Beck]

Do not ever type your administrator password without knowing
what it is for and you won't have to worry about these silly
_hooking,_copyself, crappy trojans.

Seriously.

And don't play with the 31337 warez.... and don't visit questionable
websites.

You'll be fine, you won't need antivirus software thanks to User Authentication.
Paying attention is the best antivrial software I have seen.

Also unchecking "Open Safe Files After Downloading" helps too, in Safari
Preferences.

Just my 2 cents. 10+ years in IT. Been infected by numerous viruses in
Windows. Ahh the good ol' TaiPan Virus. LOL.
Seriously, OSX is pretty secure. You can run a default OSX installation
even with the firewall turned off and not worry about anything as long
as you don't download or look at junk.

 

[benzslrpee]

before you do this double check that it is really

user/library/cache/javapil/...
​

and not

Users/username/Library/Caches/Java/cache/...
​

Protectmac antivirus has found this virus , which I successfully remove, then within the hour its back !! Can anyone help ?