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Posted by ~BD~ on January 21, 2010, 3:38 am
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On 21/01/2010 00:05, Regis wrote:
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>> FYI
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>> All my old data files were recently moved onto my external hard drive
>> -
>> by feeding CD's, which I've made over many years, into my iMac and
>> then files saved in bulk to my MacBook (Western Digital).
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>> Because I've always understood that a 'virus' (in the loosest possible
>> term) was unlikely to affect my OS X machine, I've not been too
>> bothered about 'safety', but I did reconsider recently. ;)
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>> So I've installed ClamAv - and run comprehensive scans both on my iMac
>> itself and also, in particular, on my external drive (MacBook) .
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>> Here's a shot of part of what was found in my first scan:
>> http://i50.tinypic.com/zxk5js.jpg
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> Looks like your old data simply included email folders that had the
> usual holiday greeting trojans in them.
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> The effects of those on a PC, safely still in an email file not being
> clicked upon from inside the mail program and being launched as
> executables... would be nil. The effects of those sitting on an email
> file on a mac where you probably couldn't even read the email data
> file, would be _really_ nil.
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> The reest of the alerts looked like phishing emails, the equivalent of
> the AV saying "hey look, you got some spam." Threat also nil.
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> I don't see anything there remotely unusual or concerning.
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Thank you for taking the time and trouble to respond, Regis.
I appreciate it. :)
--
Dave (Sometimes man stumbles over the truth ...... Sir Winston Churchill)
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