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Mac Users Beware...
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05-18-2011, 04:02 PM
I got hit today while looking at plumbing diagrams from a Google search. I quickly stopped the download of the zip file and deleted it. It seemed like an official Apple warning when it popped up and asked me to click. I am glad I read about it here first.
05-18-2011, 06:15 PM
If you cannot find someone to help, my neighbor is a Mac expert. It's her business. email is dawnhurwitz@mac.com
Carrie Rojo
"Even the smallest person can change the course of the future..." Galadriel LOTR
05-19-2011, 08:28 AM
One easy thing to do: block the ads from loading in in the first place. In Safari (safari:preferences:extensions) two must-have extensions are "Click To Flash" and "AdBlock".
Smoothes out and speeds up the surfing experience as well... Cheers, Kirt
05-19-2011, 01:22 PM
The current issue is not ads that are loading. I have AdBlock and have popups blocked. This one is different.
05-19-2011, 01:56 PM
quote: That was terrible! You wouldn't by any chance happen to remember what website you were at when the attack occurred would you? I,um, would like to do a little investigating......
05-19-2011, 02:54 PM
It happened to me twice while at hotmail. It was a screen I had never seen before so it looked fishy. Both times I hit the back arrow and it took me back to hotmail with no problems.
Tim
A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions--Confucius
05-19-2011, 04:10 PM
You dont need anti-virus, just dont enter your password unless its something you are intending to install. Apple will never pop something up in a web browser telling you your at risk. use your head and be smart, you actually have to click on the fake warning and then enter in your password to get a virus on a mac.
05-20-2011, 03:20 AM
Wow. Lots of misinformation out there. The current threat is malware. It is not a virus. I was affected by this two days ago. I clicked an image in Google image search and the download of the malware began. That is all. My iMac did not ask me if I wanted to install it like it normally would and therein lies the problem with this new threat. Because I had disabled the option in Safari to automatically open downloaded items, I would have had to open it manually. For people who have this option enabled, this malware program opens automatically without entering a password and without clicking that you want to open it and apparently shows porn and whatever else. As it was, I stopped the download while in progress and deleted it from my downloads folder.
05-20-2011, 06:54 AM
Its called mac defender. It will download after you click the fake pop-up, and it will run the installer telling you that you have a virus etc.... IT CANNOT INSTALL WITHOUT YOU ENTERING YOUR ADMIN PASSWORD. DO NOT ENTER YOUR PASSWORD. Its harmless otherwise, just delete it. http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/0...umbers.ars
05-20-2011, 11:38 AM
I am certainly not sure
 what this is all about ( (and haven't encountered it on the 5 Macs I use daily (don't ask)), but here are some useful links if anyone is having problems...http://www.tuaw.com/2011/05/19/macdefend...val-guide/ http://www.cultofmac.com/how-to-spot-mal...der-how-to Cheers, Kirt |
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