Hi Lara
Thank you for your response. Yes, there are reasons, and I'm not
paranoid. I'm asking for advice to get rid of these things. Below
I've copied a response to another respondee explaining my reasons.
Regards
Reg
On 25 Mar 2006, at 4:37pm, Lara wrote:
Reg Whitely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've just run ClamXav Virus Checker http://www.clamxav.com/ on my
PowerBook
Any particular reason?
Messages.mbox/mbox: Worm.Mydoom.M FOUND
Affects Windows only.
Name: Troj/Clsldr-D
Affected operating systems: Windows
Affects Windows only.
Any advice welcome please.
I won't advise you; my preferred method of not agonising about Windows
malware in deleted mailboxes and caches is not to run a Windows-
malware
detector. YMMV.
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I have Virex and think it's useless. ClamXav comes free with good
reviews. From its own website it is defined as "ClamXav is a free
virus checker for Mac OS X. It uses the tried, tested and very
popular ClamAV open source antivirus engine as a back end."
www.clamxav.com/
It doesn't claim to rid the virus, just to alert you to it and give
advice on its removal. That's why I'm asking for advice.
There are about 142 000 viruses, trojans, worms etc for Windows but
only about 4 for Mac OS X, so I consider I'm generally safe too, as
you do, but not necessarily my friends and colleagues who use
Windows. These two viruses that ClamXav has found on my PowerBook
have the potential to infect and destroy their computers. No matter
what I might personally think about Windows, I do not wish to destroy
their computers. That would be a gross breach of trust. Just imagine
if you needed to check your Maced email using a friend's Windows PC
(I think of my daughter here, who has such a beast, and whose
computer I sometimes need to use). In addition I have VirtualPC with
Win XP and all Microsoft Office installed on my PowerBook so I could
destroy that drive simply by transferring a file through the shared
drive.
Your comment reminds me of this:
I owned VWs for many years, being a very active member of the VW Club
of WA in my youth. That's going back to the late 1960s to the mid '70s.
We did some serious state rally driving in those little bug-shaped,
rear engined beasts - 100mph in a tricked up rally beetle through the
West Aussie jarrah and karri forests actually wasn't for the feint
hearted. However, an air cooled VW motor, running at full stress in
the WA heat did tend to heat up a lot, somewhat understated, even
with bigger oil coolers.
Our best prevention? Disconnect the oil pressure warning light and
gauges. We knew whenever we stopped at the end of a special stage
that the light would flash on and off, or even stay on, and the gauge
would sit on 0psi, as the engine temp was *HOT* and the oil was thin!
By disconnecting the lights and gauges we weren't distracted!
Somehow our engines survived. I'm not sure how. Ignorance was bliss.
May your tail always hang out!
Reg
