[Hidden-tech] Can anyone help my mom with a spammy virus?

[Edbride-PR]

Is there some evidence to support the conclusion that this is really a 
trojan horse (as opposed to just clever --albeit obnoxious-- marketing)? 
Don't things like Carbonite and Registry Cleaner market their services the 
same way?

Not defending the practise, just curious whether the Mac situation is really 
a trojan.

Ed

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Nachbar" <dan at nachbar.com>
To: "hidden-discuss Tech" <hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net>; "Shel 
Horowitz,Ethical/Green Marketing Expert" <shel at principledprofit.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 7:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] Can anyone help my mom with a spammy virus?


>
> I received a very similar question from a friend with a mac recently.
>
> In her case, the problems started after she installed
> a trojan-horse claiming to be a free "scanning" program.
> The trojan is now demanding a $69 payment to remove the
> porn that it has "discovered".
>
> I advised her to not pay the protection money (if only because
> very bad things may happen if she types her credit card number
> into this beast) and instead take the machine to one of the local
> shops that know about macs.
>
> Dan Nachbar
>
> On May 17, 2011, at 10:41 PM, Shel Horowitz, Ethical/Green Marketing 
> Expert wrote:
>
did, we all thank you.
>>
>>
>> She writes:
>>
>> At 11:30 PM +0000 5/17/11, gloyoshi at comcast.net wrote:
>>> A crazy thing is happning on my computer. I'm getting unasked for,
>>> full pages of graphic porn -- gay, s & M, etc, unasked and
>>> uninvited. It changes my browser to Firefox, also unasked for.
>>> what's going on and do I eliminate it?
>>
>>
>> She is on a Mac running OS 10.4. I believe her usual browser is
>> Safari. She's not very tech-savvy, but if anyone has a good idea to
>> try, I can try to help her through it.
>>
>> Please Reply to All so she and I are both in the loop.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> --