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

Kiernan G-S greenearthcomputer at gmail.com
Thu May 19 09:08:10 EDT 2011


They do in fact!

More info:

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/05/02/mac-users-hit-with-fake-av-when-using-google-image-search/

Download link:
http://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/free-tools/sophos-antivirus-for-mac-home-edition.aspx

Also, recommend grabbing WOT for the future, helps with browsing the web
safely:
http://www.mywot.com/en/download

Kiernan Gulick-Sherrill

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On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 6:29 AM, Neal Priestly <neal.priestly at gmail.com>wrote:

>   ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area.
>   ** If you did, we all thank you.
>
>
>
> Shel-
>
> If you have not resolved this yet, there is a Mac virus on the loose at
> this time according to the tech media.
>
> I'm hearing that Sophos has a free AV offering for Mac which is effective
> against it.
>
> -Neal Priestly
>  Free Range Technologist
>
> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:41 PM, Shel Horowitz, Ethical/Green Marketing
> Expert <shel at principledprofit.com> wrote:
>
>>   ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area.
>>   ** If you 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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