Worm found

The database file from what I can tell in using Office only affects Entourage's data collection of your addressbook, calendar, and e-mail. If you have moved entirely away from Entourage I think you can safely trash it. Just to be certain I'm not mistaken, try moving it out on the desktop, and see if Word, Excel or Powerpoint have any troubles.

Parky:

Apart from the results of the clamx scan, are you aware of any evidence that you are infected? In other words, is performance in any way compromised?

The fact that there is a "worm" somewhere in your computer does not mean an infection. Nor does it mean you can spread it, unless you intentionally attach it to an email and send it out. Look at this

Parky,

There is no need to trash your Entourage database. The file containing the offending code is probably an attachment to a junk email message. If you want to find it, you could try searching in Entourage for attachments ending in .exe. In any case, these things are Windows bugs and won't affect your Mac.

bd

Hi Parky, ClamXav is a nice, Mac friendly anti-virus app. However, you should heed the warning in the read me and not use the "quarantine" feature as you could lose all your email. Also, there is never anything to quarantine.

Parky:

Glad everything is OK, and you have identified and removed the offensive intruder from your computer.

corenlius

Virex isn't compatible with 10.4

Virex IS compatible with 10.4.x I use Virex 7.7b regularly as well as ClamXav.

You have to be fair and let him and the rest know that as individuals they are no longer able to buy McAfee Virex anymore for their use; only an educational organisation or a business--beta testing v7.7 will be a very limited avenue for them to pursue:

...Please note that this is first, and foremost, targeted at business and organizational customers. We are, therefore, looking for testers who use Virex at work. Individual users who wish to test Virex 7.7 may do so, but should be aware that single-user licences of the released product will not be available... -- McAfee

McAfee Virex 7.7 Reference

I`ve isolated the database file (286meg) . If I trash this database how will this affect my system. I no longer use entourage but use Word occasionally.
Would n`t you know it had to be Microsoft -- Parky

Do not be surprised, you will most likely only be finding that the virus's that you come across in the wild are attacking Microsoft products and Microsoft Operating Systems. They have always had "root" equivalent access by their design. Everything has been open and priding itself on technologies and extensibility, the OS and Microsoft's applications have been very geared towards programmers. Security unfortunately only has come to the forefront for the upcoming Windows Vista. There has been a huge multi-year shakeup in the both mentality and programming paradigm at Microsoft, the most recent effect manifest in the business restructuring starting with the cancellation and scrapping and rebirth of the Vista project when Microsoft's Vice President, Jim Allchin, had to break the news to Bill Gates.

History of Longhorn project and Microsoft Shakeup to bring you up to speed. All your Microsoft products have been built in the old programming ways by the teams at Microsoft mentioned in the article.--Yes, I know built is kind of the wrong word to use since Microsoft really has just bought other peoples products and sold them and just add to them to make them new versions, starting with the very first DOS Operating System that started the companies first commercial success making it what it is today.

Jan J.

My mistake, I guess it caught up.

EDIT: Or sort of? Just saw Jan Johannsen's post.

Whether Virex is compatible with Tiger is irrelevant in this case. What is relevant is that like me, and many others who used Virex for at least two years you have now found out that Virex never did its job properly and time after time completely missed viruses/worms on our Macs. Virex was always pretty much well useless.

I guess it's just a good thing that it never really mattered anyway

Matthew Whiting