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05-11-2011, 04:14 PM #1
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Has anyone ever seen thisWell yesterday something got on my email account and was sending links to viruses to all my contacts. Today I decided to delete all my contacts. While doing to the following picture kept poping up at random.. I was wondering if anyone has seen this or has any advice for me.
- 05-11-2011, 04:15 PM #2
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I have never seen that, but just close the window and you should be fine.
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05-11-2011, 04:17 PM #3
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I did but it poped up twice. But the weird thing is that something got on my email and sent emails to all my contacts trying to infect them.
05-11-2011, 04:19 PM #4
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What Email provider do you use?
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05-11-2011, 04:21 PM #5
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I use hotmail. I actually just found this article Beware MAC Defender: OSX malware disguised as anti-virus software - Boing Boing
05-11-2011, 04:32 PM #6
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Interesting, try downloading one of those demo anti virus apps, and run it. Post back with results.
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05-11-2011, 04:34 PM #7
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I am right now. I downloaded macscan. I'll let everyone know. This is a big issue for us mac users now. Hopefully apple releases a security update soon for this or something.
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First you cannot access your Finder the way to shows you in the background behind the "Apple Security Alert" window through a browser.
Then the font in the Cancel and Remove All buttons is wrong, apple uses a font which most other computers do not have for them.
So all of what you are seeing is a very clever webpage script that uses javascript to show you the "Apple Security Alert" window.
The so called finder window in the background is probably a picture or a lot of css and images.
I have come across this once before, and having a slight background in webpage development I immediately saw it was a fake.
I'd be very surprised if you actually had anything on your computer that isn't a .exe that Mac can't do anything with anyway.Use the reputation system if a post helps you!
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Nice catch McYukon I would add to your reputation if I could.
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I saw this come across the wire a few days ago. Apparently they are rebranding it as well...
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