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<blockquote data-quote="Gargantua" data-source="post: 804941" data-attributes="member: 36105"><p>I was surfing around about 10 minutes ago and got this weird page that came up and looks just like MY COMPUTER on a Windows machine. It indicated that I had all sorts of trojan.download viruses on various drives. A dialog box came up with the Safari logo saying that I needed to go to a site to download malware protection.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]10194[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Then this box:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]10195[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>I immediately went to Mac support and saw that this program was recommended. I went to the site and began a download:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]10196[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>During the download I looked around some more and found a thread on Apple Support where people were saying that it is not an issue and not to worry about it. I'm confused. I stopped the download but now I'm not sure that the site I was downloading from was legit. Can anyone straighten this out for me? I've had this MacBook for over 1.5 years and never a problem. Also, I don't know if it matters, but I had my brothers Western Digital 320GB external drive plugged into mine and was looking thru his iTunes library. He uses this ext. drive with his iMac though, so its not like it's attached to a PC or something.... Very strange.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gargantua, post: 804941, member: 36105"] I was surfing around about 10 minutes ago and got this weird page that came up and looks just like MY COMPUTER on a Windows machine. It indicated that I had all sorts of trojan.download viruses on various drives. A dialog box came up with the Safari logo saying that I needed to go to a site to download malware protection. [ATTACH=FULL]10194[/ATTACH] Then this box: [ATTACH=FULL]10195[/ATTACH] I immediately went to Mac support and saw that this program was recommended. I went to the site and began a download: [ATTACH=FULL]10196[/ATTACH] During the download I looked around some more and found a thread on Apple Support where people were saying that it is not an issue and not to worry about it. I'm confused. I stopped the download but now I'm not sure that the site I was downloading from was legit. Can anyone straighten this out for me? I've had this MacBook for over 1.5 years and never a problem. Also, I don't know if it matters, but I had my brothers Western Digital 320GB external drive plugged into mine and was looking thru his iTunes library. He uses this ext. drive with his iMac though, so its not like it's attached to a PC or something.... Very strange. [/QUOTE]
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