Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/02/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ric that sounds feasible. It does mean though that the worm is transmissible despite the operating system. Leo is describing the worm being present in infected email messages on his machine and then passed to the flash drive Presumably the infected emails were not copied to the flash drive? Or the video file is the vector? If either is true then Macs can be hosts while remaining healthy themselves? If this worm acts as other recent ones do, then the infection exists potentially on every drive connected, not only the specific flash drive. 2009/2/26 Ric Carter <ricc@embarqmail.com> > The virus could exist as a file on your drive, but could not infect your > system. You could pass it along if you copied it onto your friends > thumbdrive. It could not copy itself there. > > It could infect any windows systems you ran on boot camp or other software > that allows windows to run on a mac. If you mounted a thumbdrive on the > windows operating system and it was infected, it could pass along an > infection to another windows machine or system. > > Most Mac users do not run virus software. In some cases, anti-virus > software is worse than the threat. I don't know if that is a good idea. I > occasionally run CLAM-X. > > Ric > > > > > > > On Feb 25, 2009, at 5:27 PM, leo wesson wrote: > > So a client gave me a usb pen drive to copy a video file to and when she >> tried to load it, there was this W32 SillyWorm on it. I wasn't the only >> one to use the pen drive today. I 'm on a mac, is there any chance that I >> was the source of this worm? Is there any chance I got the worm from the >> pen drive? As a mac person should i be running any virus checks? I just >> always assume that the frequent updates from apple take care of all >> this... >> >> Leo Wesson >> Photographer/Videographer >> 817.733.9157 >> www.leowessson.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Cheers Geoff 'She looks like an angel moving too fast for its glory'