[G4] Virus and Spy Ware detectors

[Harry Freeman]

Greetings, Rich ( + )!( + )

On Jun 21, 2005, at 8:23 PM, rich northouse wrote:

> 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
>>  
>>  B e s t   R e g a r d s , 
>>  
>>  H a r r y   ( * ^ _ ^ * ) 
>>

You'll find the "Activity Monitor" inside of the "Utilities" folder 
which resides inside of your "Application" folder. Just start the 
application, everything is sort of self explaining and there is a 
"Help" file.

Best Regards,

Harry (*^_^*)