FYI: Mac trojan horse

Richmond richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Tue Feb 28 14:12:02 EST 2012


On 02/28/2012 08:50 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
> I downloaded Eset's Cybersecurity AV software for Mac free 30 day trial just to see how things stood with me. I got stuck during the initial scan on a downloaded EXE (I often download exe's on the Mac then move them to where I need them). It didn't find any malware, but it could go no further. My email got really skittish about then, beach balling for several seconds. I ended up having to uninstall the AV software to get going again.
>
> Anyone thinking of using this product will want to run the trial first.

I'm happy with CLAM.

http://www.clamxav.com/

>
> Bob
>
>
> On Feb 27, 2012, at 9:27 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>
>> On 2/27/12 4:20 PM, Peter M. Brigham, MD wrote:
>>> Just got this from MacWorld:
>>>
>>> Intego finds new strain of Mac Flashback Trojan horse
>>> http://tinyurl.com/7w3weqa
>> I thought Apple's security update had already taken care of this?
>>
>> -- 
>> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>>
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