mac os x virus: genio
January 18, 2013 I was hit with a Genio virus application that somehow got onto my Mac OS X 10.6.8 (MBP)
and installed itself into my login startup list.
This virus (we have to call it that as I did not ask for nor authorize it) must have been attached to
something else, though I am unsure how they did this. As a computer scientist and programmer,
I am extremely aware of downloading and running strange applications.
Perhaps the did this through a javascript snippet from a news organization?
It took me a good twenty minutes of concerted work to locate and remove all of the virus applications.
It even appeared that they had an Uninstall app, but I did not trust it. So I removed all I could find,
and proceeded with a few find(1) based searches of the disk to make very sure.
My listing here is done for two reasons: (1) to document that genio is
sending out virus (look up who to complain -- part of it is "orlaith.potter" --
this forum won't let me list it)
and (2) to ask the community for guidance in protecting
my Mac from further Genio (and other similar) intrusions.
I was able to remove the virus application from the /Applications folder, kill all the
Genio processes, and remove the startup commands they added in my login startup area.
However, any comments would be very appreciated.
Regards from me and my laptop.
--jpb
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