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Mac Forum / Applications / Internet Explorer / December 2005Spyware in Explorer on OSX10.2.3
My father, a Mac user called me this morning with a spyware infection on his Mac running OSX10.2.3. He has a couple of persistent popups telling him he has spyware on his system and encouraging him to click to download a spyware cleaner. As a Windows support person I would know what to do for a Windows system, but I am totally at a loss for a Mac. The securemac site does not support his version of OSX, Apple's site does not help at all. Can you help please? > My father, a Mac user called me this morning with a spyware infection > on his Mac running OSX10.2.3. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > not support his version of OSX, Apple's site does not help at all. > Can you help please? There is no spyware that infects a Mac. It's probably a popup ad from somewhere. So why can't he get rid of them? He closes one and another pops up. Looks like a browser hijack to me. He restarts his computer and they keep popping up. >spyware > So why can't he get rid of them? > He closes one and another pops up. Looks like a browser hijack to me. > He restarts his computer and they keep popping up. No spyware on a Mac, though IE has no popup blocker. Use Safari or Firefox.  SignatureTo reply by email, remove the word "space" >> So why can't he get rid of them? He closes one and another pops up. >> Looks like a browser hijack to me. He restarts his computer and they >> keep popping up. > No spyware on a Mac, though IE has no popup blocker. Use Safari or Firefox. Not so. http://software.silicon.com/malware/0,3800003100,39129057,00.htm http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/malspyware.html http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/10-27-2005-80050.asp http://www.businessweek.com/technology/ByteOfTheApple/blog/archives/2005/11/appl es_macintel.html SignatureTheresa Mesa Mesa Design House http://mesadesignhouse.com Please reply to newsgroup In article <2005121807221716807%webmaster@spamalizedmesadesignhousecom>, > >> So why can't he get rid of them? He closes one and another pops up. > >> Looks like a browser hijack to me. He restarts his computer and they [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > http://software.silicon.com/malware/0,3800003100,39129057,00.htm symantec wants us to buy their useless software > http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/malspyware.html wants to sell a book > http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/10-27-2005-80050.asp send you to click on the links so that i get lots of money page ( Your search for spyware returned no results. For all of them So if Apple has no info on spyware for there Mac OS then their is no issue at this time.) > http://www.businessweek.com/technology/ByteOfTheApple/blog/archives/2005/11/ap > ples_macintel.html just news about mactel Signature------------------------------------------- Swedish Webcams <http://www.webcams.zap.to> ------------------------------------------- >>>> So why can't he get rid of them? He closes one and another pops up. >>>> Looks like a browser hijack to me. He restarts his computer and they [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > just news about mactel Did you even read the articles? Just because someone is trying to sell you something doesn't mean they're not offering valuable information. And just because Apple doesn't have an article in their KB about something doesn't mean it's not a problem. That's Computer Science 101. Not even Microsoft's KB addresses every problem. I have a firend who works on back-end stuff, and he says that the rags he's reading are indicating that malware is available for the Mac. But you go ahead and dismiss the information. Perhaps your knowledge or lack thereof is a magical force that will prevent anything bad from happpening to you. SignatureTheresa Mesa Mesa Design House http://mesadesignhouse.com Please reply to newsgroup > Did you even read the articles? Just because someone is trying to sell > you something doesn't mean they're not offering valuable information. [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > lack thereof is a magical force that will prevent anything bad from > happpening to you. BTW, in case you think my post was a disguised attempt to attack Apple and its progeny, we own 4 Macs and 1 Dell. The Dell gets turned on long enough to do site-checking, and then off it goes. I've been using a Mac since 1984. I have 3 Apple stickers on my car, which is Apple red. The only person who is more of a Mac zealot than I am is my husband, who only tolerates having a PC in the house in the first place. SignatureTheresa Mesa Mesa Design House http://mesadesignhouse.com Please reply to newsgroup In article <2005121908283275249-webmaster@spamalizedmesadesignhousecom>, <snip> > >> http://www.businessweek.com/technology/ByteOfTheApple/blog/archives/2005/11 > >> /ap [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > lack thereof is a magical force that will prevent anything bad from > happpening to you. http://www.macuser.co.uk/macuser/news/71090/spyware-coming-to-mac-os-x-ne ar-you.html "Although vulnerabilities are regularly discovered no malware has yet been developed to exploit any of them. Four years since its release, OS X has yet to suffer any serious or otherwise infection by a worm, trojan or virus. Still, you can never be too careful." http://www.syracuse.com/news/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/news-0/11334297 39252900.xml&coll=1 "As of now, there are no viruses or spyware for OS X." Signature------------------------------------------- Swedish Webcams <http://www.webcams.zap.to> ------------------------------------------- > So why can't he get rid of them? > He closes one and another pops up. Looks like a browser hijack to me. > He restarts his computer and they keep popping up. I'm assuming that this starts when he launches IE. Have him check to make sure his home page in IE hasn't been set to a malicious web site. Once a web page has been open, it can be configured to keep popping up windows for eternity. But if you never open it in the first place, you should be fine. Clearing the IE cache would also be a good idea. SignatureAdam Bailey | Chicago, Illinois adamb@lull.org | Finger/Web for PGP & S/MIME adamkb@aol.com | http://www.lull.org/adam |
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