POLL: Have you ever gotten a virus on your Mac?

[tuqqer]

Filliam H. Muffman wrote:
The poll needs more choices, AND needs to be able to vote for multiple items.

Yeah, agreed. I couldn't figure out all of the choices that should fit in such a poll.

Open to redoing the poll with a more complete selection.

[RAMd®d]

Back in pre- OS X days, MacAddict magazines included CDs. One of these CDs had been compromised and, LOTS of Macs were infected

I subscribed to Mac Addict and got one of those disks, and also got another in the mail, shortly after.

That virus was called something like Send Dust or similar. I may have got a email from them warning me off. I remember that by the time I got the mag, I knew not to run the disk.

Aside from another close brush with death, the only thing I've found was a couple of copies of some malware apps, and Malware Bytes removed them.

[Mike Sellers]

S. Pupp wrote:
I caught this in college after inserting my floppy into a well-used receptacle.

Now now, let's not port shame.

[Sarcany]

I used to have a floppy with about 60 viruses on it in resource files and .cpt/.sit archives and a couple of Hypercard stacks.

I used to pull a few to test antivirus software. Remember Disinfectant? Virex? Symantec AV?

There's a list here:
https://lowendmac.com/2015/classic-mac-os-viruses/

I even had a copy of the Dukakis virus at one point. And a variation that wished people a Merry Xmas.

[NewtonMP2100]

.....no glove......no love....

[jdc]

testcase wrote:
For a few months now, I'd swear my Mac has some kind of a bug (or a least the browsers do). MalwareBytes and etreCheck both claim my MBP is clean. Just too much "weirdness" for there NOT to have something wrong.

Thats the "PC" in you thinking out loud.

nearly what, 15(?) years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdF5IsyOxU4

And yet the comments from 3 years ago are still "They never say in this video Mac's cant get viruses. They can. Windows just gets them more."

[Sarcany]

jdc wrote:
And yet the comments from 3 years ago are still "They never say in this video Mac's cant get viruses. They can. Windows just gets them more."

In fairness, the trojans/adware/cr@pware that Macs get these days are of a similar class to a virus. (Malware.)

An average person really wouldn't see much to distinguish between a "virus" and, for example, a JavaScript exploit that locks up Safari, or Genieo, or MacKeeper or one of those fancy new exploits that installs a profile.

[ka jowct]

I don’t remember the name, but my work Mac got a virus from a diskette brought in by a coworker. It affected the Desktop someho. Not too terrible and easily removed. I only found out I had it because I used to have to go to a place downtown on W. 20th to do color prints of presentations. Remember when color printers were crazy expensive? Their computer caught the virus on the diskette I brought in. Probably OS 8 but could have been 7.6 or earlier.

[Will Collier]

ka jowct wrote:
I don’t remember the name, but my work Mac got a virus from a diskette brought in by a coworker. It affected the Desktop someho. Not too terrible and easily removed. I only found out I had it because I used to have to go to a place downtown on W. 20th to do color prints of presentations. Remember when color printers were crazy expensive? Their computer caught the virus on the diskette I brought in. Probably OS 8 but could have been 7.6 or earlier.

I think that was called the AutoStart Worm. It showed up on a MacAddict CD, as noted above.

[NewtonMP2100]

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