Hi to anyone reading.
Excuse me for possible errors in technical vocabulary, english is not my native language.
I have a Mac OS X 10.6.8. that I bought new in 2010.
Yesterday while downloading a photo to my facebook-account, the service blocked me out and noted, that my account was shut temporarily and that I should first run some virus detection or such. I got a bit scared as that had never before happened. I searched some forums for answers.
Finally I downloaded Avast! antivirus for mac, and run a full system scan, that run about 3 hours last night. This morning I checked the report: It had spotted a great deal of warnings, over a hundred, including "decompression bombs", but mostly "archive is corrupted" -warnings. Many of them were located in Users/.../library/Mail/IMAP-... with my email address in gmail, but also in aplications and other places. Besides that Avast! had spotted two VBS:Malware-gens named "Autorun.inf". I even remember those files from the past. They were on the desktop, and I tried to move them, but it was difficult to just relocate them. If I remember correct, I had to use computer password. I thought that they were something from the mac so I didn't try to delete them.
Now today with Avast! I tried to delete them, and it succeeded with only the other one of the gens. Also I am afraid that I have copied the malware-gens to my external hard drive that I use for time-machine.
As you can see, I'm not exactly a pro with computers. I appreciate any piece of advice put in a simple form. ..Or if someone knows where I should ask about this, or links to previous conversations or others sites concerning the subject. What should I do, and is there some way to check if the malwares have caused some problems that continue to exist and work after deleting the malwares.
I use my laptop alot in my work. Sometimes I save web pages as web archives for research purposes, also I admit to have sometimes downloaded some applications after a light research of the service provider. This incident will certainly make me more careful in downloading.
Excuse me for possible errors in technical vocabulary, english is not my native language.
I have a Mac OS X 10.6.8. that I bought new in 2010.
Yesterday while downloading a photo to my facebook-account, the service blocked me out and noted, that my account was shut temporarily and that I should first run some virus detection or such. I got a bit scared as that had never before happened. I searched some forums for answers.
Finally I downloaded Avast! antivirus for mac, and run a full system scan, that run about 3 hours last night. This morning I checked the report: It had spotted a great deal of warnings, over a hundred, including "decompression bombs", but mostly "archive is corrupted" -warnings. Many of them were located in Users/.../library/Mail/IMAP-... with my email address in gmail, but also in aplications and other places. Besides that Avast! had spotted two VBS:Malware-gens named "Autorun.inf". I even remember those files from the past. They were on the desktop, and I tried to move them, but it was difficult to just relocate them. If I remember correct, I had to use computer password. I thought that they were something from the mac so I didn't try to delete them.
Now today with Avast! I tried to delete them, and it succeeded with only the other one of the gens. Also I am afraid that I have copied the malware-gens to my external hard drive that I use for time-machine.
As you can see, I'm not exactly a pro with computers. I appreciate any piece of advice put in a simple form. ..Or if someone knows where I should ask about this, or links to previous conversations or others sites concerning the subject. What should I do, and is there some way to check if the malwares have caused some problems that continue to exist and work after deleting the malwares.
I use my laptop alot in my work. Sometimes I save web pages as web archives for research purposes, also I admit to have sometimes downloaded some applications after a light research of the service provider. This incident will certainly make me more careful in downloading.