Hi im running OSX 10.9 on a macbook pro and i seem to have some sort of virus in mail. It keeps emailing hundreds of people from my email address and i keep getting bounce back messages. its now gone so far that my email host has shut my address down.
How can i remove this malware????
Thank you
MacBook Pro
PS: Im running AVG and Avast antivirus but its not getting rid of it
Are those messages that are bouncing actually in your Sent Mail?
If not, log into your email provider's webmail and check there.
If they are not there, either, then it is someone else's computer which has acquired malware. You just happened to be in their contact list.
If you find the emails in the sent mail on your email provider's server via webmail, but not on your Mac, immediately change your email password. Also, if you use that password for other things on the 'net, change those, too.
AVG, Avast, etc. are all useless.
I cant see them in my sent items and i cant get onto the webmail to check. The emails i get say this ...... I have hunbdreds of them flooding my inbox.
This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
lucetsy@yahoo.com
SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data:
host mta6.am0.yahoodns.net [66.196.118.35]: 554 delivery error:
dd Sorry your message to lucetsy@yahoo.com cannot be delivered. This account has been disabled or discontinued [#102]. - mta1342.mail.bf1.yahoo.com
------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------
Return-path: <chris@XXXXX.com>
Received: from [46.253.85.254] (helo=vipontqrs)
by mail75.extendcp.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.80.1)
id 1W2H8R-0004ZK-4c; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 09:15:12 +0000
From: chris@XXXXXXcom
To: <sentra500@yahoo.com>
Subject: Puny Pharm
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 03:10:06 -0700
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
format=flowed;
charset="iso-8859-5";
reply-type=original
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157
There is no known Mac malware behaving this way. Either someone is spoofing your e-mail address on the From line when sending spam, or your e-mail account has been hacked. You should change the password on your e-mail account immediately to be on the safe side.
See:
This is not coming from you, it is coming from a machine using Microsoft Outlook Express.
In the header you posted, it shows:
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157
Change your email password/webhosting password to be safe.
As has already been stated, it is not from your account, so ride out the deluge, but change your email password to be safe.
Read Linc Davis post.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5780076?answerId=24484604022#24484604022
Tiffia wrote:
PS: Im running AVG and Avast antivirus but its not getting rid of it
1. The FIRST rule of Antivirus on Windows is: NEVER EVER EVER run 2 antivirus programs. You'll cause more problems than you could possibly remedy, because they'll "fight with each other", and may end up disabling both, leaving you more vulnerable than with one, even if it isn't very good to begin with.
2. As nearly EVERYONE has already stated, A/V on a Mac is USELESS. Get rid of it.
C F McBlob wrote:
2. As nearly EVERYONE has already stated, A/V on a Mac is USELESS. Get rid of it.
It is not completely useless. A program such as ClamXav is useful for scanning incoming emails from Windows users which may be infected and the files passed on to other Windows users. It can be set to scan only those files. It is non intrusive to the OSX, not like Nortons, Kerpasky, Avast, AVG etc. If I was to recommend a second one it would be Sophos.
With that said, I don't run any AV program, but I see where some users see it as useful. It is just a matter of not installing one that is so intrusive to the OSX. I agree that two should not be installed at once, and I would certainly stop short of recommending any than what I have mentioned.
Of course, if you are also running Windows on your Mac, than one should have it protected with an AV Program.
Just my 2 cents worth. Others will undoubtably disagree.
Cheers
Pete
I have five VMs (Xp through 8.1) and I have AVG on each of them, though as a VM, it's pretty much for show. If something infects a VM (on an external HD no less) I just trash it and reload. (I don't do "BootCamp")
I've owned eight Macs since 2003 and have never run A/V on any of them (except for a six month test I did for Intuit with McAfee in 2004).
From 2007-2009 I sent hundreds of viruses I collected on my iMac and MBP, from my Yahoo mail account, to AVG. They saved as text files, and I just zipped & forwarded them. Yahoo is the worst for that IMHO.
Hi this has just happened to me!
What if the emails are in the sent mail both on my Mac and on my Webmail server?
A lot of times, it simply means that someone somehow got your email address (stole it, most likely by either hacking into one of your friends' contact list or some other way such as buying it). Spammers love to use legitimate "from" email addresses, so someone is simply sending spam using your email address. I've had that happen several times and I've already gotten spam FROM me TO me. The only way to stop this definitively would be to abandon that account and open another. Do change your password, but your email address is already "out there". And do speak to your ISP/email provider and explain that it is not you who is sending out these emails - do expand the address field to expose all headers and then send that to them - somewhere in there may be a clue as to where it came from.
Edit: meant to address Del, not the OP.
OSX 10.9 Mail Virus or Malware?
