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

[Jeff Rutherford]

Sounds like this is the problem she's facing - no good, easy solution

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/an-applecare-support-rep-talks-mac-malware-is-getting-worse/3342


Jeff Rutherford
413-475-0087

On May 18, 2011, at 4:24 PM, "Edbride-PR" <Ed at edbride-pr.com> wrote:

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> 
> 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?
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> 
>> 
>> 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!
>>> -- 
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