Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/02/25

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Subject: [Leica] W32 SillyWorm question
From: ricc at embarqmail.com (Ric Carter)
Date: Wed Feb 25 15:17:22 2009
References: <3e7573d40902251427i10ccaa88rc69077ffcfd02998@mail.gmail.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
>
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