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What to do? VBS:Malware-gen spotted by Avast!
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<blockquote data-quote="felize" data-source="post: 1496507" data-attributes="member: 294568"><p>Hi to anyone reading.</p><p>Excuse me for possible errors in technical vocabulary, english is not my native language.</p><p></p><p>I have a Mac OS X 10.6.8. that I bought new in 2010.</p><p>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. </p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="felize, post: 1496507, member: 294568"] 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. [/QUOTE]
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