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Apr 7, 2012 9:34 AM in response to dougfromazby MGW,You have an intel machine, PPC machine have a different archtecture. To see if you have been infected, use ClamXav to check.
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Apr 7, 2012 10:18 AM in response to dougfromazby rccharles,★HelpfulYou would be better posting this in the Lion forum.
https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/mac_os_x_v10.7_lion?view=discussi ons
It's possible you email contained a virus, but unlikely. There haven't been any reports of email viruses effecting the mac.
My understanding is the Apple provides security updates for all malware including viruses.
There have been reports of a --
-- Phoney virus checking program
-- flash malware.
ppc -- Power PC. An older computer processor used by Apple. Last Mac shipped with PPC was in 2006.
I've read about two virus checking programs for the mac. One is clamav. The rest are either junk or malware.
http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/
Security update.
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Apr 7, 2012 10:27 AM in response to dougfromazby dougfromaz,I checked the activity on my Activity Monitor and there does not seem to be any odd or malware type of entries.
I do have the antivirus program that came with my computer, but I hesitate to install that and I don't even know if I would get updates, because my computer is about two years old- may not even be able to install the antivirus software. I appreciate your help
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Apr 7, 2012 11:51 AM in response to dougfromazby rccharles,I agree with you . I'd hold off on running an anti-virus program unless things get worse with malware.
Here is a good article on Security on Mac OS X.
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2472
Here is a post about the flash malware.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3857036?tstart=0
Here are some words about a virus checker trojan:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3023
I noticed you are on 10.6 -- Snow leopard. A better forum would be:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/mac_os_x_v10.6_snow_leopard?view= discussions
Here is a complete list of the forums.
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2463
Robert
