Possible Virus?!
Hi there,
The other day I tried to download a subtitle file for a film I was watching, and the website I was on brought up some sort of sex ad which followed the page down as I scrolled down.
Shortly after, firefox (version 3.6.16) started opening multple windows automatically, all sex type pages!! I had to force quit.
This has never happened to me on a mac before so I am quite concerned that I may have been unfortunate enough to have caught a virus! I have no virus protection as I understand that it is very unlikely to be neccessary on a mac..
Upon restarting the machine, I found some new files in the trash. it has created a "recovered files" folder within which are two folders named "plugtmp" and "plugtmp-1". In each of these are two files, exactly the same in each folder. These are "plugin-crossdomain.xml" and "plugin-policy.html"
Does anyone have any advice what to do now? Are there any good, non-system-debilatating, free virus scanners which people recommend? Should I delete these files? And is there anything to look out for which may indicate some form of infection?
Many thanks,
MBP i7 15" hi res anti glare 500GB 7200