[G4] Concerns over Spyware

[Wade Perry]

Sandor,

Let me start by saying thanks. You always seem to be on of the first to
reply. I believe you're right in regards to the Mac OS. As of last night, I
needed to add a drive to my daughters G3, so I pulled one from my G4. I
reformatted and wiped the drive. And....most of the odd files/documents are
gone. So, now I feel a little foolish. The files that remain are.

Odd Files examples:
Primary drive file(document) gmon.out 8.9Mb
Documents/Library/Prefs: folder named .raccoon, folder named .pam

Thanks,



 
> at the moment, i do not believe there is much to worry about in this
> regard with os x. i am not sure if there is any choice other than virex
> at the moment, and although the virus updates come out frequent, the
> really only contain windoze virii that can be spread by macs, but
> cannot infect macs...
> as far as the odd files, what/where were they? with up to 60,000 files,
> there are many that os x installs that look very strange compared to os
> 9....
> 
> sandor
>
>> I have recently developed some concerns over ³spyware² or a Trojan
>> horse
>> virus infecting my G4 933.
>> The OS is 10.2.8 and some odd files have shown up. I am looking for
>> detection software, and MacScan is down/ not available.
>> 
>> Any ideas or suggestions.
>> 
>> 
>> TIA for your help.
>> 
>> Wade A. Perry
>> 
>> 
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