I'm not aware of any viruses (viri?) that can infect Mac OS X yet, but I highly recommend turning on 2-step authentication in Gmail. It's well worth the extra hassle.
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Nora Probasco <[email protected]> wrote: > I have an odd situation with my Mac. In the past couple of days it has been > running VERY slow. I know that usually means that I need to fix permissions. > So when I ran Disk Utility, it said it would take 1 day and 6 hours to do > it. I left it on over night and part of an afternoon and it didn't seem to > do much. So I closed out of that and ran Diskwarrior having it check files > as well as fix permissions. I left it on over night and the next afternoon > it seemed to be stuck about 4/5ths through. I closed out and decided to run > it again last night. It did the same thing. Otherwise I can do what I want > on the computer. What concerns me is that I am afraid this may be a virus. > Never having had one I just don't know. I had another strange incident where > someone from China hacked into my gmail account and sent many spam email > from my account. Gmail froze the account, made me change my password and > stopped emails from being sent from that account for 24 hrs. I am wondering > if I may have also gotten some virus or something from that as it happened > around the same time. I have Virus Barrier which I could activate again, > however, I want to make sure that is what it may be. > > Nora > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > >
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