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Last post: 5 years, 4 months ago | Thread started: Jan 21, 08, 7:17 p.m.

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• traut

  i just got off the phone with my ISP and there telling me i either have a virus or spyware.
  isnt it nearly impossible to get this on a mac ?

  Jan 21, 08, 7:17 p.m. – Permalink

• AndyRoss

  Yeah, probably impossible on a Mac. But, you know, your brain could be messed up for a million different reasons. Or theirs.

  

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  Dog-earJan 21, 08, 7:19 p.m. – Permalink

• traut

  is there any freeware appz that can scan for mac spyware ?

  

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  Dog-earJan 21, 08, 7:21 p.m. – Permalink

• Hall

  Sounds like you have the Fouty virus!
  Apparently it can infect any type of device.

  

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  Dog-earJan 21, 08, 7:21 p.m. – Permalink

• joyride

  http://housecall.trendmicro.com/…

  maybe...

  

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  Dog-earJan 21, 08, 7:24 p.m. – Permalink

• Jaline

  Try to clean it up. Otherwise it's most likely a different problem.

  • Jaline, in your opinion could it be the fouty virus?– RoyBoy1/5

    Sorry, even the fouty cannot enter a Mac ;)– Jaline2/5

    What? The fouty can penetrate anything!– RoyBoy3/5

    you wish...– Jaline4/5

    i don't, you do!!
    oh no! i think the fouty has got you too!– RoyBoy5/5

  

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  Dog-earJan 21, 08, 7:42 p.m. – Permalink

• traut

  anyone else ever used that housecall-trendmicro ?

  • looks a little fishy to me
    dont know if i want to use an online virus scan
    
    – traut1/3

    I've used it on many many pc's. It's java based. Just don't know if it works on macs... if your worried if it's safe or not?– joyride2/3

    I have also used it on a couple of pc's with good results...– epigraph3/3

  

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  Dog-earJan 21, 08, 7:47 p.m. – Permalink

• joyride

  I know what you mean, but, I would put this up with ad-aware and spybot for the pc. I know there are a lot of shady virus stuff. but this is not one of them... don't know if they look for mac specific virus' or not.

  

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  Dog-earJan 21, 08, 7:57 p.m. – Permalink

• flashbender

  google said this:
  http://macscan.securemac.com/

  I have never used it so that's about all I can do to help.

  

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  Dog-earJan 21, 08, 8:30 p.m. – Permalink

• horton

  you're ISP is totally BS'ing you so they don't have to deal with it.

  i'm sure "tell customer they have a virus" is # XX on their list of textbook responses before actually listening to your issues.

  • * your
    
    (geez, i always do that)– horton

  

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  Dog-earJan 21, 08, 8:46 p.m. – Permalink

• Jaline

  Yeah, they use the "you are downloading too many things" line a lot.

  

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  Dog-earJan 21, 08, 8:50 p.m. – Permalink

• ok_not_ok

  Repair permissions then restart.

  

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  Dog-earJan 21, 08, 9:13 p.m. – Permalink

• a_iver

  hmm... did it used to be faster before? this is what i would do:

  go to hard drive>applications>utilities>act... monitor
  look for anything that looks non-system-ish and squash it. just be careful. do you have 56k?

  

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  Dog-earJan 21, 08, 9:16 p.m. – Permalink

• a_iver

  oops.. it's:
  hard drive>applications>utilities>act... monitor

  

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  Dog-earJan 21, 08, 9:18 p.m. – Permalink

• a_iver

  weird...

  activity monitor

  

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  Dog-earJan 21, 08, 9:18 p.m. – Permalink

• traut

  it used to be really fast its cable internet sometimes it just crawls anymore, im going to try the repair permissions and check the actmon.

  

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  Dog-earJan 21, 08, 9:33 p.m. – Permalink

• ok_not_ok

  also, try turning off both router and modem for 10 seconds. Then power up everything again.

  

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  Dog-earJan 21, 08, 10 p.m. – Permalink

• akrokdesign

  stop downloading porn while being on QBN. it goes much faster then. :-)

  

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  Dog-earJan 21, 08, 10:06 p.m. – Permalink

• traut

  no pron on this machine honestly . and ive rebooted the router currently doing disk permissions

  

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  Dog-earJan 21, 08, 10:09 p.m. – Permalink

• ismith

  Do you have Comcast? They said the same thing the other day to my father and shut down his internet. Needless to say he was pissed that they insisted on it even though he had a Mac. I explained it's just a pre-written line for when they fuck up and don't want to tell you about it. Oh well.

  

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  Dog-earJan 21, 08, 10:36 p.m. – Permalink

• traut

  time warner - there pieces of shit right now

  

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  Dog-earJan 22, 08, 10:23 a.m. – Permalink