On-line experience yesterday - 05/04/11 04:03 PM
I don't think I need to be that concerned, but thought I'd run it past you guys anyway.
Yesterday I was on line, checking out the words on Spike Milligan's gravestone "I told you I was ill". I put those into Google and among the results were a row of pictures. (Or it could have been "Spike Milligan's gravestone" - either Google search yields a row of images)
Clicking on one of those images, this happened:
Another window opened on my Mac, with something doing a "scan" of my Mac, with very rapid numbers and red bars growing sideways. The "scan" window alleged that I had multiple viruses, Trojan Horses, bugs, and other evil things all over my system. I did not believe any of it, and tried to close the new window. I was offered "cancel" or "continue" or something like that, but neither of them closed the window OR stopped the "scanning". In the end I had to quit Firefox to make it shut up. Having done that, I found it had downloaded two zip files to my desktop.
I put the zip files into Trash, then did a "secure empty trash" instead of just empty trash.
Am I right in assuming this scanning window which popped up was itself a bug/virus/evil thing; that the zip files were also bugs/viruses; that doing secure-empty-trash was the correct action; and that there are no such bugs/viruses/worms/Trojan Horses for Macs anyway?
Mac OS X Tiger
Firefox
Never use social networking sites such as Facebook/Twitter, ever. I've added that clue because I've since found this:
http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/10/27/securemac-discovers-mac-os-x-trojan-horse/
Many thanks
Yesterday I was on line, checking out the words on Spike Milligan's gravestone "I told you I was ill". I put those into Google and among the results were a row of pictures. (Or it could have been "Spike Milligan's gravestone" - either Google search yields a row of images)
Clicking on one of those images, this happened:
Another window opened on my Mac, with something doing a "scan" of my Mac, with very rapid numbers and red bars growing sideways. The "scan" window alleged that I had multiple viruses, Trojan Horses, bugs, and other evil things all over my system. I did not believe any of it, and tried to close the new window. I was offered "cancel" or "continue" or something like that, but neither of them closed the window OR stopped the "scanning". In the end I had to quit Firefox to make it shut up. Having done that, I found it had downloaded two zip files to my desktop.
I put the zip files into Trash, then did a "secure empty trash" instead of just empty trash.
Am I right in assuming this scanning window which popped up was itself a bug/virus/evil thing; that the zip files were also bugs/viruses; that doing secure-empty-trash was the correct action; and that there are no such bugs/viruses/worms/Trojan Horses for Macs anyway?
Mac OS X Tiger
Firefox
Never use social networking sites such as Facebook/Twitter, ever. I've added that clue because I've since found this:
http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/10/27/securemac-discovers-mac-os-x-trojan-horse/
Many thanks