A while back I ended up with a "virus" in my Mac mail that caused funny things to happen - like the screen flashing etc.
With repeated scans I managed to isolate it to a specific email, trashed the email and the problem was solved,
Post is here How can I remove virus "worm.bagle.gen-zippwd"
Now I have another piece of malware called an "expoit"..whatever that is. It causes the text to go all wiggly to make it unreadable.
ClamXav identifies it as Exploit.IFrame.Gen
Trouble is, it's on a different Mac using Outlook Express as the email client and the messages are all one huge single file, so it's not easy to identify which message it's in.
Any hints from anyone how to remove this "Exploit"?
How have you made the link between a Windows exploit from 2003 and the text problem you are having?
Wild guess...no, no, educated guess.
I ran the virus scanner about two weeks ago. Everything was fine then.
After I got the squiggly text in emails, I ran the virus scanner again this morning and this one infected file shows up.
Last time, the email message with the "worm.bagle.gen-zippwd" was relatively easy to identify because in Apple mail you can scan individual messages.
Once I had the message identified, I simply trashed it and the problems went away and stayed away.
This time, when I scanned outlook express, the file the 'exploit' is in is identified, but it's the outlook message file which has all of the mail in it, 700+meg.
So right now my plan is to import all the outlook mail into Apple mail...which I just finished doing (worked well this time, failed when I was still on OS 10.2), back up both the outlook mail and apple mail to a CD or DVD and then run the virus scanner on Apple mail to see if I can identify the specific email causing the problem.
What is an 'exploit' anyway and why would it affect the Mac?
If you don't know what an exploit is then you have not made an educated guess
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And just to reiterate the point, You do not have a virus or an exploit. There are none. Whatever your problem is, it's related to something else.
On the matter of your original computer, the one with the flashing screen, did you check the "Universal Access --> Hearing --> Flash the Screen when an Alert Sounds" ?
Outlook Express - does that run natively in OS X, or is the Mac you're currenlty working with use OS 9? Classic?
I ran the virus scanner about two weeks ago. Everything was fine then.
After I got the squiggly text in emails, I ran the virus scanner again this morning and this one infected file shows up.
Can you post a screen shot of what this squiggly text looks like? Is it readable, or just a bunch of garbage text?
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Originally Posted by krs
Last time, the email message with the "worm.bagle.gen-zippwd" was relatively easy to identify because in Apple mail you can scan individual messages.
Once I had the message identified, I simply trashed it and the problems went away and stayed away.
For the record, worm.bagle.gen-zippwd is a Windows virus. You had it on your Mac, but all it was was an attachment. It can not infect your Mac.
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Originally Posted by krs
This time, when I scanned outlook express, the file the 'exploit' is in is identified, but it's the outlook message file which has all of the mail in it, 700+meg.
So right now my plan is to import all the outlook mail into Apple mail...which I just finished doing (worked well this time, failed when I was still on OS 10.2), back up both the outlook mail and apple mail to a CD or DVD and then run the virus scanner on Apple mail to see if I can identify the specific email causing the problem.
What is an 'exploit' anyway and why would it affect the Mac?
Does the virus scanner actually tell you what the "exploit" is it found? Again, if it caught it is most likely a Windows virus as there are no viruses for Mac OS X, nor malware like you'd see on a typical Windows PC.
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And just to reiterate the point, You do not have a virus or an exploit. There are none. Whatever your problem is, it's related to something else.
On the matter of your original computer, the one with the flashing screen, did you check the "Universal Access --> Hearing --> Flash the Screen when an Alert Sounds" ?
Outlook Express - does that run natively in OS X, or is the Mac you're currenlty working with use OS 9? Classic?
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CubaMark -
All I know is that the virus scanner came up 'no files found' two weeks ago.
After I got the squiggly text, I ran it again and now it says one infected file found with the description I gave in my first post.
ClamXav is picking something up that wasn't there two weeks ago.
Grant you, maybe the squiggly text and this 'exploit' is unrelated - I guess I'll find out as soon as I identify the culprit email and trash it.
As to the original 'flashing screen' problem. Yes, I did check Universal Access. Someone had suggested that in the previous post. But there was nothing set.
Don't you find it strange that after I deleted the email that ClamXav identified previously and the problem went away?
For Outlook Express I'm using classic with OS 10.4.3
For the record, worm.bagle.gen-zippwd is a Windows virus. You had it on your Mac, but all it was was an attachment. It can not infect your Mac.
All I know is that the problem went away after I deleted the email that was identified as having the virus. That was on Apple mail with OS 10.3.9
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Does the virus scanner actually tell you what the "exploit" is it found? Again, if it caught it is most likely a Windows virus as there are no viruses for Mac OS X, nor malware like you'd see on a typical Windows PC.
Trev - I mentioned that in my first post. I have no doubt it's a Windows virus, but it does seem to affect the Mac.
Before Tiger, I had Norton AV installed. It would find viruses (virii) in email attachments, even though they absolutely could not harm the Mac that contained them.
With Tiger, Norton AV went into the trash, and not easily at that. There is no reason to have it installed. Kiss your virus application goodbye.
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