[MacDV] Re: Bizarre Final Cut Pro Problem

[matblack at mac.com]

You know what's really hilarious is that when I read the baltimoresun  
article I got a pop-up for "You are seeing this message, because we  
have detected that you have tracking software installed in your  
machine."

Will the madness never cease...
m

On Monday, March 22, 2004, at 09:01  PM, Gerhard Kuhn wrote:

>
> 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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