Coincidentally, a few days before this trojan-or-whatever-it-is came to light a friend of mine had been waxing enthusiastic about the open- source virus scanner for OSX ClamXav (a GUI front end to the command- line ClamAV antivirus engine). So as soon as the malware appeared, I decided to download a copy of The Clam and install it. It's working like a charm (it detected a couple of viruses in my attachments folder -- at least, that part of my attachments folder where files from people I don't know get diverted to... those files NEVER get opened, I just clear it out every month or so) and it's FREE!
However, it also detected a virus of some sort -- called 'WScr.Unsafe.D' -- in my Powermail database file. Now AFAIK this virus is not causing any problems, and it is part of a message not an attachment (the aforementioned virus was not found in the scan of the attachment folders, just in the database file itself), but does anyone have any idea of how to eliminate it from the database? Since the database is one solid file there is no way for ClamXav to determine which message is the carrier, and with PM not using an mBox structure I can't even locate it by moving messages about (not that I'd try to; it would mean moving 38,000 messages a few at a time). Frankly with the alleged virus not seeming to cause any bother I'm mostly inclined to leave it as it is, but the fussy bit of me (a big bit) would like to clear it out so that it doesn't show up every time I scan the mac. Anybody have any suggestions? Cheers; Rick -- G5 2GHz x2 :: 2GB RAM :: 10.4.3 :: PM 5.2.3 :: 3 pane mode Shark Attack: A Design Studio <www.sharkattack.co.uk> -- Original message: Received from Rishi on 16/2/06 at 16:38 >I just read this on mac rumours that there is some trojan / virus >circulation. A note of caution to all
