A virus is a malicious computer program that can duplicate itself and spread to other computers.
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How do I tell if the Flash Player Installer is a virus?
There's been a couple of trojans recently that imitate the Adobe Flash Player installer one of which is called OSX/flashback.A. (More info here) I've been wary of updating Adobe Flash Player due to ...
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Random shutter sound
Every once in a while I hear a loud sound from my Mac. It sounds like either a camera shutter or a keychain lock/unlock. It all started a couple of weeks ago.
I fear something is snapping shots of my ...
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Is antivirus software a necessity with the “rise” of MacDefender and others?
I have heard broadly about the so-called "rise" of the Mac viruses. Apparently, there is a "whole new deluge" of Mac viruses. So far, I have gotten nothing that I can see.
But I'm beginning to wonder ...
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Is it possible to download a virus via iPad safari browser?
I understand that PDF reader in iPad can be a security loophole for virus to get through; but beyond that, how easy ( or hard, or even possible ) is for a virus to sneak through iPad safari browser? ...
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Strange unidentified sound playing at random intervals
I luckily managed to record the odd sound especially considering it plays at random.
Two weeks back it played about 4 times, one minute apart. Then there was nothing for a long time and now it has ...
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Manually cleaning up a threat detected by Sophos Anti-virus?
I was viewing another answer on this website and one of the links lead me to a malicious website. I have Sophos Antivirus installed, and a warning immediately popped up telling me that a threat was ...
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Is it safer to use a guest account when streaming from projectfreetv?
Hi I stream my tv shows from projectfreetv on my mac, but I was concerned about downloading a virus or something, so I started using my ''guest account'' when I stream, because it says when I logout ...
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Why Is Mac Malware Less Frequent Than On Windows Systems? [closed]
Whenever I ask friends, colleagues and acquaintances why they have bought an Apple Mac and switched from Windows, nine times out of ten the response I receive is:
"Macs don't get viruses"
Is it true ...
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Time Machine Backup causes Macbook Pro to hang
My Macbook Pro has suddenly started acting pretty funky. I will be running Blender for a few minutes and then it will turn on the fans and they will start getting faster and faster. I checked the CPU ...
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Document folder that I can not click on directly with a mouse or delete via keyboard actions
Running Mac OS X 10.7.4
Inside of a folder I use to organize files and I place reference photos into for illustration projects there lies another folder labeled:
Documents
this folder will not ...
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What is writing to Disk causing eventual Beach-ball-of-death
What is running my machine down? This is iotop output...I still can't tell what is driving my system to a halt. Command+i on the SSD shows my "used space" slowly changing. It does this for about an ...
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How can I determine if my MBP running Snow Leopard has been attacked by a virus?
5 yr old MBP Intel bought for video editing ran fine for 4 yrs, using Tiger & FCE 3.5. Past year has been stormy. Onset was unrecoverable crash dx'ed as not-worth-fixing logic board failure by ...
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Do you use bank apps in your jailbroken device? [closed]
Ever had problems with it?
Do you think it's safe?
