Trojan

Hi,

I've had my macbook for about 4 years now and have never experienced what happened this evening....

I opened an email tonight (no attachment with the email) and received a warning message stating that the message contained a trojan horse. The message continued to say that I should immediately download "something something". I exited the window I was in and canceled the download (unsure of what was happening) then reset safari.

Is there something else I should do to assure that my computer is secure and absent of a virus?

It sounds like it could have been a bogus site trying to sell you something you didn't need by frightening you.

Check your DNS settings in Network preferences to make sure that the only DNS values are yours and not something trying to re route you to a bogus site whenever you're online.

Doug

Scam. Get a better pop-up blocker.

The best bet when something like this pops up is close the browser because hitting cancel
or stop is almost the same as ok or start.

Ah, I ran over such one site once.
Can't remember what it was but it gave me the fake PC virus alert window and started downloading a .exe.
And then because I was curious what had just happened, I reloaded the page and let it run again
Might seem risky but .exes can't run on Mac so I'm safe.