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You don't need to have windows on your machine to pick up a windows virus, either fed to you by clicking the wrong place on the web or by people sending you viruses in their e-mails. Just because a virus will only work in windows, does not prevent the file from being downloaded to your computer. It would however, sit there non-functioning until you passed it on to a windows user.
After reading this, decided to give Avast a shot on my Mac.
And after running it - I would highly advise against running this app on any Mac, much less allowing it to do anything to your system.
Among the files it finds are:
1. fseventsd - a system file that is used by OS X in the indexing process of Spotlight
2. hotfiles.btree - a system file that automatically defrags files under 20MB in size, moving them into contiguous space and freeing up the previously used area available for writing
3. Spotlight-V100 - this is the root directory where Spotlight saves all of it's indexing related files
4. .Trashes - your Trash can, mine happens to be empty at the moment
5. Users - Yes the Users folder
6. com.Apple.Spotlight.plist - the preferences file
7. A half dozen other preference files
8. Activity Monitor - yep, it's a virus too
9. Quicktime741_Leopard.pkg - yep, this Quicktime update is a virus also.
10. It even reported one of it's own loaders in this report.
Decided that was enough playing with what at this time are Windows toys.
Bye bye Avast.....
After reading this, decided to give Avast a shot on my Mac.
And after running it - I would highly advise against running this app on any Mac, much less allowing it to do anything to your system.
Among the files it finds are:
1. fseventsd - a system file that is used by OS X in the indexing process of Spotlight
2. hotfiles.btree - a system file that automatically defrags files under 20MB in size, moving them into contiguous space and freeing up the previously used area available for writing
3. Spotlight-V100 - this is the root directory where Spotlight saves all of it's indexing related files
4. .Trashes - your Trash can, mine happens to be empty at the moment
5. Users - Yes the Users folder
6. com.Apple.Spotlight.plist - the preferences file
7. A half dozen other preference files
8. Activity Monitor - yep, it's a virus too
9. Quicktime741_Leopard.pkg - yep, this Quicktime update is a virus also.
10. It even reported one of it's own loaders in this report.
Decided that was enough playing with what at this time are Windows toys.
Bye bye Avast.....