My Mac unbelievably has a virus (or flu)?

Your machne is not affected by a virus as none exist for OS X. What changed 7 days ago?

"my husbands Mac went in for a fix up"

Can you please provide more details.

Please run this program as well and post the output in your reply. Thanks:

Etresoft: EtreCheck

Moonbeam Girl wrote:

For all these years I always believed no virus could touch my Mac.

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Seven days ago, something changed and I'm now infected.

They've given him a new screen, picked up yesterday, and so far no other issues with rebooting.

It's not clear - is it fixed?

If your Mac is not performing as expected the very last thing you should suspect is a virus.

Just because its screen goes dark overnight doesn't mean it has a virus, any more than the darkness of night means the sun has been blotted out by invaders from another galaxy. Possible, but unlikely.

If you are still having trouble please explain the symptoms. Concluding your Mac is "infected" with something can only mislead you into taking actions that won't help and can only make things worse.

You should determine the reason for inexplicably vanishing files, lest it happen again.

nbar's suggestion regarding EtreCheck is worth considering but please do not use that link. Go directly to its developer's website and download it from there. Follow these instructions:

Apple Support Communities contributor etresoft wrote a very useful app to quickly gather certain system information that may help point to a cause of this problem. Go to his website, download and run EtreCheck:

http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck

Etrecheck will be in your Downloads folder. Open it from there. You may see the following dialog box:

Click Open - etresoft contributes to this forum frequently and can be considered a trustworthy developer.

It will take a moment to run as it collects its data.

Copy and paste its output in a reply.

Do not be concerned about anything that says "Problem" or "failed".

EtreCheck was designed to remove any personal information (such as your computer's name and serial numbers) but if you see anything that looks like an email address or any other personal information that should not be divulged to others, please delete or obscure that information when you post the reply.

When you are finished with EtreCheck, quit the program. It occupies very little space, and you can keep it or drag it to the Trash as you wish.

Mr. Galt,

My link is to etresoft's (the developer's) website. Are you getting redirected?

Here is the direct link via my hyperlink: http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck

nbar wrote:

My link is to etresoft's (the developer's) website. Are you getting redirected?

Actually it shows up as a Google search:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CCsQ FjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.etresoft.com%2Fetrecheck&ei=LShLUrmPHtPb4AO_oYDoBA&usg =AFQjCNHs4TTBUJs0KvhHeiCxewRnLhKe-Q&bvm=bv.53371865,d.dmg

Your latest link is direct.

Odd. Thanks.

I don't think your Mac is infected by any kind of virus (a k a malware),

http://www.thesafemac.com/there-are-no-mac-viruses/

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Mr. Kaufmann is correct in saying no viruses currently infect OSX. A virus is not synonymous with malware. Mr. Reed's article, which you pointed the OP to, will clarify the distinction.

Please, we all know that viruses are not technically synonymous with malware, but that technical distinction is lost on 99.99% of the people who come for help here. To them, virus is malware, means malware, and to reply to someone that it can't be a virus because there are none currently for OSX is a meaningless exercise in pedantry. Not only that, it is misleading, because there is malware, and they are therefore led to believe that there is no malware for OSX, since they equate the two.

To keep repeating this pedantic nonsense to people who need help is to do a great disservice. Why do they need to know this? If we are truly interested in helping people, we would realize that this is only a pointless distraction.

Please, we all know that viruses are not technically synonymous with malware, but that technical distinction is lost on 99.99% of the people who come for help here.

If you are going to link the OP to an article based on the technical distinction, why would you imply they are synonymous? Was the whole point of your technical distinction not to differentiate between the two? I mean no offense, but that is more misleading than the statement, "No viruses currently infect OSX," which is, in itself, correct.

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