Viruses on OS X - Page 12

furedman · #89 July 17th, 2005, 09:34 AM

at first my comp wouldn't go to sleep, so i reset, then it started and desktop image was gone, my documents folder contents are gone and my dock icons some have ? marks.- now my comp goes about 10,000 slower than normal- it has the blue screen during start up- but like an hour later it loads osx and goes mad slow like tandy 1000 slow. It also likes to make loading noises. There are no hardware poroblems with my computer- i checked.-

(my comp imac snow g3 550* power pc- 500 mhz.)* - running partition os9 and jaguar, was using adobe software last. - jared

nixgeek · #90 July 17th, 2005, 01:50 PM

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Originally Posted by furedman

at first my comp wouldn't go to sleep, so i reset, then it started and desktop image was gone, my documents folder contents are gone and my dock icons some have ? marks.- now my comp goes about 10,000 slower than normal- it has the blue screen during start up- but like an hour later it loads osx and goes mad slow like tandy 1000 slow. It also likes to make loading noises. There are no hardware poroblems with my computer- i checked.-

(my comp imac snow g3 550* power pc- 500 mhz.)* - running partition os9 and jaguar, was using adobe software last. - jared

Try creating a new user account and login as that account and see if the same things happens. You might have to repair permissions as wel as run Disk Utility or something like Disk Warrior or TechTool Pro to repair any hard drive problems. WHATEVER YOU DO, DON'T USE NORTON PRODUCTS!!!

Good luck.

ex2bot · #91 July 18th, 2005, 10:29 PM

furedman,

If you actually have a Mac OS X virus, you might soon be famous, because at this point, none has been discovered.

You may possibly have a permissions problem. If you can get to /Applications/Utilities (click on the desktop / Finder and press Apple-Shift-U), run Disk Utility. Select your boot drive from the left pane and press the "Repair Permissions" button near the bottom middle.

Also, check to see how much available hard drive space you have available.

Let us know what you discover.

Tetano · #92 July 26th, 2005, 05:22 AM

Also, are you using Filevault? I remember about many problems from people using that tool...

claire_elis · #93 August 5th, 2005, 11:35 AM

what about this 'Mac/Cowhand" trojan? im having some porblems with my mac that would make me think I might be the victim of this.... Any suggestions on how to do a manual fix? (ie: remove the offending files?)

I tried to follow along with the posts up to now, but alot of them are too tech for me. Explanation in layman's terms pls??

ex2bot · #94 August 5th, 2005, 12:10 PM

It appears unlikely anyone is affected by the Mac/Cowhand.

1. Check your Startup Items first:

Click the Apple Menu, click System Preferences, and then click Accounts. If you're using OS X 10.4, click the lock icon at the bottom of the window and type in your password. Then click the "Login Items" tab and look at each program in the list to see if you find anything unfamiliar.

For example, I have my printer program (HP), the Microsoft database daemon (for MS Office), the iTunes Helper, and System Events.

2. Check your Preferences folder:

The problem here is that I'm not sure what you'd look for. From what I can find, Sophos is the source of this announcement (and they tend to be sensationalist and to stretch the truth), and they haven't divulged filenames. I guess look for anything that does not have a file extension of ".plist" (without the quotes).

To see filenames, you'd have to go to Finder, click the Finder menu at the top of the screen and click Preferences. Make sure "Show All File Extensions" is checked.

**My opinion: Skip both 1 and 2. At least skip #2. This is another "Sophoax."***

Sophoax = Sophos + hoax = an instance where Sophos "warns" Mac users about a new security threat that turns out to be no threat at all

I made that up!

Doug

ElDiabloConCaca · #95 August 5th, 2005, 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by claire_elis

what about this 'Mac/Cowhand" trojan? im having some porblems with my mac that would make me think I might be the victim of this....

What kind of problems, specifically? 99.9% of Mac problems aren't due to viruses... what kind of specific problems are you having that lead you to believe you are the victim of a virus/trojan?

mambopanda · #96 August 16th, 2005, 11:44 AM

Not to be a buzzkill on the abscence of Virii from our humble world of Macdom, but with the comming x86 based systems, we are going to become vulnerable to all of the low-level memory resident virii out there. The ones that don't need an operating system to run.

Also, in theory, if you have DarWINE installed, and a windows virii is written to use just those libraries that DarWINE implements, it could in fact cause a problem, at least I think it could.