I couldn't figure out where this file came from and went to the internet and it said it was a dangerous Trojan Virus. I'm now trying to figure out how to remove it from my MacBook Pro (2015) laptop. Any comments, suggestions and solutions?
Robin
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)
I suggest you start a new thread and provide details of your system and what you think has infeceted you.
it's not just for windows anymore. My mac mini server running 10.13.1 is infected.
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Dangerous to Windows, it's gibberish to the Mac OS if you have the file and there is nothing the file can do to harm Mac OS X.
the only real danger is if you have a mac anti-virus that falsely identified this as a mac variant which it is not.
Gibberish, like that term. Thanks JimmyCMPIT I still new to Mac and I'm learning something new every day. Today I learned this is not harmful to Mac which is great news, and the extra was gibberish. I do not have a Mac anti-virus.
Thanks for your input. I moved to the trash can and will move on.
Happy Halloween.
Note that if anything tells you that you are infected with a "trojan virus," it should be ignored. That's not a real thing, and use of that phrase is a sure-fire way of identifying that whoever is responsible for that message knows nothing about malware. It makes about as much sense as saying that I saw a rabbit bear in my back yard.
Trojans and viruses are two mutually exclusive types of malware... a trojan cannot be a virus and a virus cannot be a trojan, by definition.
Thus, what you saw was undoubtedly just a scam website trying to trick you into calling a phone number or installing some junk (or malicious) software.
the overwhelming majority of windows attacks will try and subvert windows components that dont' exist on the mac so even if you compiled the attack with something like wine or software designed to open windows files on Macs it would not be able to find the paths for the alteration of key files
for instance there is no C:/Windows/win32.dll file on a mac so if it's trying to replace that file it's not there, and if it creates a new one it's not a file mac OS X needs to do anything so it would never be used by the OS and it's modified code would still be gibberish to mac OS X.
if you do run Windows on your Mac then concerns about Windows trojans and virus should be taken very seriously.
Not sure for virus but for malware use....can someone chime in to validate whether this works for viruses.
I think I have a virus (photo.scr)
