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Virus on my iMac (late 2011)

I have a iMac (late2011) and my Symantec Antivirus software says that I have a Trojan.Webkit!html virus. Is there a fix?

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Feb 9, 2013 3:55 PM

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Feb 9, 2013 4:17 PM in response to kpkim

Yes. Get rid of Symantic. There are NO viruses that can affext OS X.



Norton Antivirus (made by Symantec) has a very long and illustrious reputation for mangling Mac OS X systems, sometimes to the point where a complete reinstall is necessary. Among other things, it installs kernel extensions which are known to cause kernel panics and system freezes; it contains known and documented bugs which can silently corrupt Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign files, destroy a user's ability to authenticate as an administrator, and (on PPC systems) can cause Classic to stop functioning; and Symantec has on at least two occasions now released flawed .dat file updates which erroneously report certain critical Mac OS X files as "viruses." (Deleting these "viruses" causes damage to the system that in some cases renders it unbootable.)


Norton Removal Tool (Symantec Uninstaller):

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH103489&locale =en_US

And now this, from 11 January 2012:

Lawsuit Claims Symantec "Scareware" Warns Of Fake Threats To Sell Upgrades

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/01/11/lawsuit-claims-symantec-sca reware-warns-of-fake-threats-to-sell-upgrades/

Virus on my iMac (late 2011)

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