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Name: resi
Date: January 14, 2005 at 13:55:40 Pacific
OS: OS X
CPU/Ram: PowerPC G4 (2.9)
Comment:

used clamXav virus scanner on my computer and found Trojan/Doom etc. but cannot actually FIND them to remove them,,,what shall i do?



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Response Number 1
Name: Kyomii
Date: January 17, 2005 at 23:56:05 Pacific
Reply:

You have the My Doom virus on the Mac? Is your Mac on a
network?

My Doom is a PC virus, (not cross platform) and is
included in the PC virus definitions, but not included in
MAC definitions.

If you are one a network that includes Wintel machines
then you need to get rid of them. Your virus scanner
should tell you their location on your Mac.

Regards,
Kyomii


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Response Number 2
Name: dominicus
Date: January 18, 2005 at 09:33:28 Pacific
Reply:

Probably cant find it because it's not
actually a legitimate Unix (MacOSX)
application...OSX macs can carry pc viruses
even though they can't themselves be
affected by them....don't know about OS9 and
under tho...

%00


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Response Number 3
Name: resi
Date: January 23, 2005 at 07:04:25 Pacific
Reply:

I am using OSX not on a network the virus scanner tells me the viruses are in either Entourage Express mail message of in the add-on HD. Did scan all the messages individually but it did not find which one. I know a friend sent a message to me and others this way spreading MyDoom virus but I thught I was 'safe' could be that her message has the virus but it is not spreading? but then when I scanned her messages it wasn't found. the other thing is that the virus scanner tells me I have got viruses, but that they cannot be moved to 'quarantine'.
any idea and help is very much welcome!
Resi


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Response Number 4
Name: krob
Date: February 22, 2005 at 11:28:28 Pacific
Reply:

I used a method suggested by the author of the program
(I think on the versiontracker page...):


- divide the infected folder into 2 or more new folders
- scan again
- divide the infected folder again until there are a
manageable amount of e-mail

If your folder is very large, this can take a while. One tip
is instead of randomly dividing the original folder, divide
based on criteria (manually):

- attachments
- people not in your address book
- HTML containing

Once you have a few candidates, you can put each in a
folder by itself to verify.

NOTE ABOUT QUARANTINE: if you are using the OSX e-
mail client, don't use quaratine. It quaratines the entire
folder so you can't delete the infected file without losing
everything else. It's also time consuming to reimport the
mailbox (if you have done this, import it, but choose
"other" as the type).


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