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My Folders turned into exe files

Hi everybody,

I don't know what happened to my Mac today, i assumed it's a virus but the strange here is that virus is only affect Windows OS. The story is, I have a friend, she borrowed my camera, as she returned it, i was on boot camp and was using Windows for gaminng, i plugged my camera and delete photos that my friend has taken. I noticed nothing strange and i didn't have any Anti-virus program on Windows. Until i login to my Mac, i see all of the folders on my Macintosh HD drive is now exe files. I can still access these folders by using the "Go" option on the Menu Bar. I downloaded Kaspersky and scan for viruses, it showed that the drive is infected with Worm.Win32.Autorun.gvy. If i try to delete the file, it also delete the whole Folder which causes my Mac to crash and need to restart.

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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)

Posted on May 29, 2012 3:23 AM

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Sep 3, 2015 11:21 AM in response to Tech Singh

I my case I "lost" some hundreds of image files among other files that are located on external HDD.


can anyone help me regarding running the command ls -la / on the HDD

and also the command that deletes de duplicated EXE files sudo find / -xdev -type f -name *.exe -delete


I already tried to access the HDD on a PC and Linux PCs, was able to see all hidden files (I so belive) but among theese I couldn't find any of the original image files.


It's more than 4 years worth of photography


best regards
Miguel

My Folders turned into exe files

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