Is this website for real? Or is it a scam?

maple60 · Aug 31, 2008

Hello Everyone
As I was doing some research, A window popped up and it said my mac has been running slow as I have been infected with some virus- Knowing such pop-ups are usually a scam I just cancelled it but I have its website
www.scanner.msscanner-online.com

I went to this site and saw nothing but Ignxd so such nothing else came up
has anyone else experienced this?
BTW , when this window popped up it showed that I had 14 viruses!! I did not believe that but my mac has been a bit slow-
what is the anti virus we have built in for Macs?Please help
Thanks

louishen · Aug 31, 2008

Its a false site, since websites cannot scan a mac for viruses, the website would need to download a program AND get your permission to run.

Those anti virus sites usually offer some sort of anti virus app for Windows that is really a trojan horse, thus infecting a (WEindows ) machine

If you want mac maintenance download MainMenu and run its maintenence tasks and a disk permission repair

There are no viruses for mac, but if you want to run a scan the open source ClamX will help

davidg14 · Aug 31, 2008

maple60 said:
Hello Everyone
As I was doing some research, A window popped up and it said my mac has been running slow as I have been infected with some virus- Knowing such pop-ups are usually a scam I just cancelled it but I have its website
www.scanner.msscanner-online.com

I went to this site and saw nothing but Ignxd so such nothing else came up
has anyone else experienced this?
BTW , when this window popped up it showed that I had 14 viruses!! I did not believe that but my mac has been a bit slow-
what is the anti virus we have built in for Macs?Please help
Thanks

Same to me, just Ignxd.
And yes it's spam.

Try ClamX for antivirus software http://www.clamxav.com/

maple60 · Aug 31, 2008

Thank you guys for your quick responses as well as the site for anti-virus
i knew that it would be a scam and thats why i noted the site down and from my other Pc checked it out!
Thanks again , appreciate it

Alexis · Sep 1, 2008

I don't get much when I click on that link.

There are a lot of pop up windows out there that pretend to be scanning your machine. They are just animations though.

It's a trick.

Forum Shark · Sep 1, 2008

I got that once, too. The funny thing is, a lot of these "scanning" pop-ups are animated to look like Windows XP. That's to be expected, since most people use that. Anyway, I'm glad it's just an animation.

Hit · Sep 1, 2008

Lol those popups are meant for Windows to trick people to actually download a virus
The virus scanner is a virus

davidg14 · Sep 1, 2008

Hit said:
Lol those popups are meant for Windows to trick people to actually download a virus
The virus scanner is a virus

Yes it's for Windows computers.