[MacDV] Re: Bizarre Final Cut Pro Problem

[Gerhard Kuhn]

http://www.baltimoresun.com/technology/custom/pluggedin/bal- 
mac082803,0,1353478.column

http://www.macdailynews.com/comments.php?id=2143_0_1_0_C

I believe that you may have trouble with your hard-drive but that it is  
from a virus I doubt.  I believe that the two events are coincidentally  
occurring at the same time but not connected.  If the virus did what  
you say it would change what people believe about OS X vulnerabilities.


Gerhard

On Mar 22, 2004, at 4:47 PM, animal wrote:

> Thanks to everyone who helped.  Based on all input, this seems to be  
> what's happened.
>
> I know the source of the virus.  It came from someone I was expecting  
> a contract from.  I tried to open the attachment assuming it was the  
> contract.  Later I found out he sent the email but not with an  
> attachment.
>
> Unaware that I was infected - I'm pretty sure the virus piggybacked on  
> my email to at least three people I emailed (all PC users).
>
> Now, none of my external hard drives work with this computer for  
> downloading Final Cut Pro anymore.  Plus my emac OS 10.2.8 is still  
> sluggish even after being repairing with disk utility (it says the  
> Emac is fine), it looks like Gregg's experience with a PC virus is  
> what's happened to me:
> Gregg said:
> "It was a fairly easy fix using Virex, but it did wipe out my system  
> file and it took about two full days to troubleshoot and get things  
> back to normal."
>
> I will mention Final Cut Pro won't work worth a dam now so it looks  
> like I'm going to have to reinstall everything from scratch.  Plus  
> that'll kill the PC virus.  Appleworks is also sluggish but Photoshop  
> seems to be working fine.
>
> I've updated Norten twice (three days ago and again now), so hopefully  
> it will help, though it just seems to update the same files over and  
> over.
>
> Though there aren't any 'Mac viruses' as such, this PC virus has cost  
> me some time.  Since Antivirus for Mac won't recognize PC viruses or  
> get rid of them, (now I'm wondering why I bought it) I will never open  
> another attachment again.
>
> Lynn
>
>
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