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.rserv virus?
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<blockquote data-quote="cwa107" data-source="post: 1390110" data-attributes="member: 24098"><p>It sounds like you were baited into downloading and installing a trojan. Unfortunately, this attack vector seems to be becoming more common for the Mac. </p><p></p><p>These kinds of fake dialogs that closely mimic the real ones can be hard to discern from the real ones as the developers can make them look very similar, and in some cases identical. But in general, I would suggest that you be very skeptical any time you get a prompt for your admin password. Be sure you know exactly why you're getting it and what the source of the prompt is. </p><p></p><p>Having been infected, I would also encourage you to run a reactive scan with ClamXAV or MacScan (the free trial), just to make sure you're completely clean.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cwa107, post: 1390110, member: 24098"] It sounds like you were baited into downloading and installing a trojan. Unfortunately, this attack vector seems to be becoming more common for the Mac. These kinds of fake dialogs that closely mimic the real ones can be hard to discern from the real ones as the developers can make them look very similar, and in some cases identical. But in general, I would suggest that you be very skeptical any time you get a prompt for your admin password. Be sure you know exactly why you're getting it and what the source of the prompt is. Having been infected, I would also encourage you to run a reactive scan with ClamXAV or MacScan (the free trial), just to make sure you're completely clean. [/QUOTE]
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