Hi!! I Really need help right now!!!! There's a virus called coin miner on my Mac. It originated from my friend's computer via Facebook ChatBox. I'm a curious person so I press the link which i didn't know What it was.. So i really need help!! Waht should I do?? Should I reformat my Mac or what??? Please Reply ASAP!!😕😢
MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
Why do you feel you have a virus? Did you actually install something?
There's a virus called coin miner on my Mac.
No there isn't. There are no viruses that run on Mac OS.
Please Reply ASAP!!
It's been almost 3 hours since you posted this. Guess it's not that ASAP.
There aren't any viruses for mac right now and I've really never heard of this thing before. If you want security software, use ClamXav. I'll see if I can find anything about it.
Chris
I know there's some BitCoin mining thing going on out there. I don't use BitCoin (that "universal" currency used more often for underground, not traceable, transactions). I don't really know anything about it... or what BitCoin mining is... but I'm not even sure how the original poster would know they had something unless they received some sort of alert. I didn't spend all that much time looking into it as it's not something I'm really familiar with.
Using google I found a little bit... http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/researchers-find-malware-rigged-with-bitcoin- miner/8934 .
According to the last part of the article, it uses ftp. If this is true, I'm guessing that you can just turn off file sharing and that will keep your data from being sent.
On the above article was a lot of links and this was one of Symantec's links http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/all-your-bitcoins-are-ours
If you can find and delete the infostealer.coinbit file then you should be ok.
You might be able to stop the process in Activity Monitor if you search all processes.
I hope this helps solve the problem.
Chris
Can you describe precisely what you're seeing? I've gotten several e-mails from folks with similar claims, all coincidentally timed today. That doesn't necessarily mean anything, and certainly doesn't mean that any possible newly-emerging malware can infect a Mac. But you never know. So give us some more info.
I don know what it was at first....when i press the link, it automatic sends me to a fake youtube website with my name on it. It came from my friend's PC. All of sudden, my mac starts to lag😢
If all that happened was that you went to a web site, and you didn't install anything from that site, just restart your Mac and it should be fine.
Just make sure that nothing was installed without you knowing it also.
Nothing can be installed without you knowing it. Even MacDefender - perhaps the most successful malware in the history of the Mac - had to convince the user to follow through on the installation. The best it could do was download and launch the installer.
Java and JavaScript can be used to do some sneaky things, but neither has direct access to the file system, so neither can install an executable file somewhere where it can run automatically and do harm.
My MacBook Has A Coin miner Virus!!!
