[G4] Virus and Spy Ware detectors

[rich northouse]

Ron,

Thanks for the response.  Maybe I should have stated the problem, 
rather  my guess at the solution.

I have a friend who has an e-Mac (75gig, 256Megbyte, OSX3.2 - just 
updated to Tiger).  She can't get on the net from her machine with a 
phone modem. It had been working and than all of sudden she couldn't on 
the net.  Her computer seems to connect with her provider ( it states 
"connecting" and after a few minutes it says " connected"). However 
once connected, neither Outlook or Safari work.  Outlook just grinds 
away doing nothing and Safari within a few seconds comes back with a 
message that indicates it can't establish a connection -- even though 
there is a connection to the provider. It appears like it is waiting 
for a password, but never asks for anything!  I thought it sounded like 
a virus.  One tech thought that there could be some Spy Ware running, 
redirecting the efforts of the CPU???

So there is the problem!  Now perhaps you guys might have a solution?

rich


On Jun 21, 2005, at 2:42 PM, Ron Steinke wrote:

> On 21 Jun, 2005, at 11:21, rich northouse wrote:
>
> Calling on the group's wisdom again -- What is the best Virus and Spy 
> Ware detector for a Mac?  Any good free stuff?
>
> I'm not so sure that you really need an anti-virus program. Are you 
> using OS-9 or earlier? So far, I haven't heard about any virus that 
> can affect OS-X even though Virex keeps putting out updates to their 
> program.
>
> I know that someone will say that you should have an anti-virus 
> program to prevent forwarding a PC virus that you may have gotten from 
> a document that you received from another PC user, but that doesn't 
> appear to me to be such a problem. If they insist on using a machine 
> that is vulnerable to so much mal-ware, aren't they simply asking for 
> trouble? According to statements I have read, there are over 97,000 
> examples of viruses (virii?), trojan horses, macros, etc, that affect 
> PCs and about 68 that affect Macs. With that condition, why worry 
> about you giving something to a PC user when he is more likely to get 
> it all on his own simply by using his machine on the internet?
>
> An experiment was done at a university in California with 8 brand new 
> PCs right out of the boxes. They were plugged in, turned on, and 
> configured for internet access. They had software installed that would 
> sound an alert when any attempt was made to access them from the 
> outside world. Operators sat down and started surfing the net, going 
> to different sites so there wouldn't be any duplication of visits. 
> Within 48 minutes, all 8 had sounded the alert.
>
> None of the machines were Macs, so the result from the experiment 
> probably cannot be used with any degree of certainty. But---it does 
> point out that PCs are not safe at all, even when they are brand new.
>
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