Mail virus and Trojan issues
I have a high end virus detection running on my Mac.
Recently I have had many Spam emails with attachments. The attachments had viruses or trogans, most likely Windows ones. When I marked them as 'Junk' there was no issue, then I deleted the Junk mail. When I rebuilt the mail boxes recently the virus checker picked up the viruses in the attachments.
Two things are of concern related to above;
1) the recent information about 650,000 Mac's worldwide being effected with flashback trojan, should basically have eliminated the thought that there is no necessity to use virus detection on Macs or at least have concerns about attack potential.
2) Why there was no issue until I tried to rebuild the mailboxes, basically meaning if you just 'erase junk mail' any future potential risk to Macs could be dormant or active, still on the HD. 'Erase junk mail' means the data is still in the mailboxes/HD, just not shown in mail, perhaps just the file headers removed.
It could just be a matter of time before Macs become a more active target, as most users are complascent about the potential for viruses and trojans, there are strong myths that Macs are safe against such attacks.
A good friend recently had an virus attack on his iPad that Apple technitians at the Genious bar were all interested in and they reported it back to Apple headquarters. So I think personally the time for complacency is over.
Any idea about what is going on with the mail boxes would be most interesting.
Thank you.
MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8), iPad & iBook OS 10.6.8
