Concerned I may have accidentally downloaded Malware (or worse)

Hi all,


In short about once every 4 years I will do something dumb and I think today may be one of those days. I am working from home and using my aging 2012 iMac. In short using the work GMail (I don't have to log onto work servers to access it - so they have no exposure) I got sent what looked like a genuine e-mail, viewed the attachment from GMail (did not download it so I expect it may be in my cache somewhere if it did do something as it had to view somewhere - appears to have been a zip containing an excel file; it didn't open in Excel) - before realising this looked wrong and deleted it. It appears a third party work contact was the one compromised.


I am in the process of running a VirusBarrier check (by Intego) and also an old copy of Clam XAV. Both are running slowly but are so far showing nothing.


I also run an aging copy of Etre check that flagged a few things (output below) - it mostly seemed to be poor performance (but this has been an issue for a while where it is getting old and getting heavy daily use) - have added this in as an edit/reply.


In short nothing weird is going on (yet) but I just want to check I haven't got anything weird going on in the background that I should be aware of (e.g. malware that's installed itself somewhere).


Is there any way of me checking this more thoroughly and making completely certain everything is still OK?


Re: the Internet itself I am running Firefox with No Script enabled and UBlock Origin as well - but where I am thinking that I viewed the attachment within GMail there may be a slight hint of risk.


Thanks in advance for any advice or suggestions (and apologies for the less than ideal Etrecheck formatting).

iMac Line (2012 and Later)

Posted on Sep 15, 2020 9:21 AM

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Posted on Sep 15, 2020 9:26 AM

The go-to app for detecting and removing malware these days is MalwareBytes. You can download a free version that lets you manually run scans (the paid version allows automated scans among other things).


https://www.malwarebytes.com



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Sep 15, 2020 12:54 PM in response to iamezekiel114

iamezekiel114 wrote:

Just ran a quick scan on Virus Barrier (checked over 400,000 items) and came back clean (so I think we might be OK).

I don't know what Virus Barrier is but, as there are currently no viruses in the wild that affect Macs, I can't see that it would do much good. Follow ikrupp's suggestion and use Malwarebytes.


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