It came through an email and neither Nortons, Virex or Disinfect caught it during delivery. Came in that typical message marked: mail daemon , undeliverable, fatal errors. Was using the OSX mail app. Normally I would have just trashed it, but the wife was using the comp last night and I figured I would check it out, she's not all that computer savy - real bad idea. Opened it, looked at it, didn't recognize any of the addy's, so I deleted it.
Opening an e-mail in OSX CAN NOT execute a file, and CERTAINLY not one that assumes root access. You would be asked for your admin password, certainly a tip-off that something odd was going on.
If this message was indeed the cause of the problem, I'd dearly like to see it. Off list, of course!
Ohio State University's computer system is currently riddled with the latest windows virus. Since I am located in Columbus too, I have a fair number of friends that work at OSU. For the past two weeks I have received anywhere between 6 and 28 of those "virus attachment" emails per day. My favorite so far is the one that was addressed to me from me. (you know, send the virus to everyone in the address book and pick one of them as the sender) The day I got the one from my own email address I also go a lot of "undeliverables" from a variety of other universities because of the attachment.
My machines are uninfected, or should I say unaffected. Although OSX is safe, I do keep Norton AntiVirus installed and up to date on all my computers.
So, I tend to agree with Bruce, that it is not a virus.
Nancy
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