[G4] Virus and Spy Ware detectors

[rich northouse]

Harry,

How do I do that?

rich


On Jun 21, 2005, at 6:49 PM, Harry Freeman wrote:

> On Jun 21, 2005, at 1:16 PM, rich northouse wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Perhaps you might want to open up "Activity Monitor: and see which 
> process are using the most CPU time and percentage. There might be 
> some clue as to what is happening
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