May have a virus

may have a virus or malware. when i open safari i get a pop up saying to call 844-261-6418. it wont let me navigate away from this page and the only way to get out of this is to shut down safari. Help please?

That is not a virus.
It is a scam.
Don't under any circumstance call that number.
You can try shutting down Safari and then when you restart it hold down the shift key to see if that stops it.
If it doesn't disconnect you Mac from the web and then restart Safari then.

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Thanks in advance

I have nearly the same problem, the printer discards my print job even when i have entered my email address as authorised senders.
Details from my other post:
I sent 2 emails to the printer:
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- another is a jpg circuit diagram paste in a word doc sent as an attachment
both are classified as spam and refused to print. i have no email coming back saying it failed (even i have checked "Email Job Status" in ePrint Settings.
So what will this HP printer print?
How can I switch this useless spam filter off?
I have get this filter off! I need this email printing to work reliably, that is a major reason I bought this printer
Any suggestions are welcomed...
HP's slogan on the box:
"Now you can print from virtually anywhere" (but get discarded every single time!)

I accidently clicked on an advertisement banner on the app formspring, and i am worried that the website the ad took me too may have a virus that will steal accounts from my ipod

i accidently clicked on an advertisement banner on the app formspring, and i am worried that the website the ad took me too may have a virus that will steal accounts from my ipod. i am using an ipod touch 4g

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I just got a "warning system may have found viruses on your computer" message on safari

I just got a "warning: system may have found viruses on your computer" message on safari that mentioned system may have found 2 malicious viruses: Rootkit.Sirefef.Spy and Trojan.FafeAV-Download. Also a phone # to call for help in removing the viruses. I have a MacPro I don't know if this is for real or spam. I had to force quit safari and turn off and then back on my computer but when I clicked on safari again the message was still poping up. Does anyone know and can anyone help me? Thank you.

Fraudulent spam. Not only is it impossible to diagnose your computer's health, virus status, etc, by visiting a web page, Macs don't get viruses of that kind. Calling that number would have prompted the perpetrator to take your money and/or gain remote access to your computer.
Quit Safari completely by holding down your cursor on the dock icon and choosing Quit when you see it appear, or hitting cmd-Q when the Safari menu is visible on the top left of the screen. Once it has completely quit (there is no light under the dock icon), hold down the Shift key on the keyboard, and launch Safari again.
Safari will normally try to reload whatever webpages were open when it last quit; holding Shift will cancel this behaviour. And try to avoid going back to whatever webpage you were on when you got the popup.
Matt

My internet provide says I may have a virus. How can I tell?

How can I determine if I have a virus. I think a may as my Yahoo account spammed my contacts Wednesday night.

If you're using Mac OS X, then you do NOT have a virus (I"ll even bet money on this).
There may be an exception here if you're running on Bootcamp or using a VM.

HT1338 what should I do if I think I may have a virus from an email I received?

I opened an email from my sister which had a link on it. I click on the link which brought me to a site. My sister later sent me an email that her computer had a virus and that the email was NOT from her. What can I do to see if I have the virus? I do not have an anti-virus installed on my Mac. Thank You for any help you can give me.

You don't have the virus. If you supplied a password to the site which you clicked the link to, change it immediately. If you supplied a credit card number or anything similar, that information may be in the hands of a hacker.
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I think i may have a VIRUS on Tiger!

I updated to 10.4.7 last night, just for the record.
I keep getting an OS X pop up notice saying my hard drive is nearly empty and i should delete files. So I do. I deleted a bunch of files and it said I had about 1.68GB of free space. So I decided that was enough. about 2 minutes later after doing nothing, the same notice pops up and now i have 0kb of free space. i repeated the process deleting different files, and then i left finder open. soon enough, the amount of free disk space began falling by itself as i did nothing and the notice popped up again.
does anyone know what this is or how i might stop it?
thanks

I positive you do not have a virus. There are a number of different things that can cause your hard drive to start filling up. Take a look at this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2263087&#2263087
Do a search on "hard drive full" and you'll find lots and lots of people have had the problem.
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I think I may have a virus on my MacBook laptop, ran disk utility, "filesystem verify failed." Help!

I'm running a MacBook laptop and thought I might have a virus b/c i was browsing online a couple of days ago when i clicked on a link that appeared to automatically start downloading a file. I tried to stop it from downloading by clicking "cancel" in the downloads box that came up, but it compleatly downloaded before i could hit cancel. No programs automatically opened and started runnning (that i could see), but I've noticed slow browsing since then.
I ran the disk utility, "verify disk," to see if there were any problems. It came back with this error message: "First aid failed: Disk Utility stopped verifying "Macintosh HD" because the following error was encountered:
Filesystem verify or repair failed"
The text is black inside the verifying history box until the last three lines, which say in red:
"Invalid node structure
Volume check failed
Error: Filesystem verify or repair failed."
Does this mean I have a virus? Are there other things I can do to confirm that I do or do not have a virus? How do I fix this problem?
I'm running Mac OS X 10.5.8.
Many thanks for your advice/comments in advance.

Probably because the directory on the disk is corrupt.
The error "invalid node structure" is one that will take either DiskWarrior or a reformat to fix.
It has not to with any malware.
Allan

My MacBook Pro, 15 inch, purchased in 2006 may have a virus or perhaps has crashed. When I power it up, I get strange patterns. Nothing else loads. Is this a virus or has the hard drive crashed? Thanks.

When I power up my MacBook Pro, I get patterns. Nothing loads. Has my hard drive crashed or do I have a virus. I had been burning a DVD from an iMovie project on an external hard drive when problems began. Thanks for any insights.

Sounds like the video card is going, mine did that after I installed the P.O.S . OS X called Lion.
Was working fine under 10.6, little did I know that Cupertino was compromised at that time, likely the hackers corrupted the firmware updates.
Take it in, they will run their little test and say it's the video card and it's not worth spending $350+ plus whatever else you need to fix it.
Scrap it for parts and buy a new one.
However, you can extract the hard drive and use a SATA to USB adpater cable to the new Mac, transfer files manually or use Migration/Setup Assistant.
http://eshop.macsales.com/installvideos/
you'll need a tool kit too.

Can't boot from OSX and may have a virus

I'm having a similar problem as Davo21 in "computer won't boot up in os x". After running Norton System Works to try to resolve an issue that I was having with my computer, I'm getting a message, "/etc/master.passwd:not a directory" on a black screen when I try to start up.
It started in early December after I downloaded some stuff off the internet and it seemed like I might have picked up a virus. I know, that's not supposed to happen with OSX, but my computer started doing wierd things like switching out icons for whole types of files - i.e., .wav files would show up with a totally different icon. Restarting solved that problem, but I noticed that on both my wife's and my computer (both Macs - hers a Single core Intel Mini running OSX 10.4 and mine a G3 700MHz running 10.3.9) the internet was running exceptionally slow, while on my work computer (a Dell PC running Windows XP) it was running just fine. All three computers are networked, so I surmised that something was affecting the Unix system but not the Windows, but when I ran Norton Anti-virus, it came up clean. More wierd things kept happening, so last week I decided to run Norton Disk Doctor and it changed thousands of directory settings and now my computer won't boot up from my main boot drive with OSX 10.3.9. I've run the Disk Utilities on the 10.3 Install Disk and I've run Disk Warrior and they both say that the boot drive is repaired, but I still get the same message when I try to start up normally.
I have several partitions on my original drive and several more on the additional 240GB hard drive that I installed a couple of years ago, so I can boot up from an old copy of OSX 10.2 on another partition. The latest wierd thing is that now one of my other partitions on the original hard drive won't mount.
My questions are:
1) How do I get back to being able to boot from OSX 10.3?
2) Where can I get help to figure out what's going on with my computer and how to remedy it?
I've been looking at some of the information on the Leap-A malware and it seems like there are some similarities, however I'm running OSX 10.3.9 and not 10.4.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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DMcSantaFe,
as was said before Norton Utilities and Disk Doctor were discontinued almost 3 years ago (for some very good reasons!). It caused much more trouble than it solved.
Here are the articles:
Symantec discontinues Mac Norton Utilities, SystemWorks
Norton Utilities, SystemWorks development halted
TMO Scoop - Symantec Confirms Norton Utilities & SystemWorks' Demise [Updated]
Tech Tool Pro and DiskWarrior are presently the most reliable utilities. For more information on regular housekeeping read this: MacOS X 10.3/10.4: System maintenance
Unfortunately Norton usually damages the file system beyond repair. The only cure is a reinstall.
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I believe my computer may have a virus. Can someone help?

Lately ive been worried that my MacBook pro has a virus. Today i went to "Finder" and saw that i had shared files going--ive never shared any files. The location says "Neighborhood". Also, i went to my activity monitor and saw that there was a file called "disnoted" runnnig and it was by the user "damian". My name is not Damian and i have no idea who it could be. It wont let me stop the process either. Ive tried many times and it hasnt worked. I also see an "activitymonitord" is running from "root" what is that? Any help on this would be great. Im quite worried about the security of my computer now. Please tell me what this means and if it is a virus, how i can remove it. Ive suplied pictures aswell. Thank you.

Corbyy wrote:
i went to my activity monitor and saw that there was a file called "disnoted" runnnig and it was by the user "damian".
It's daemon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_%28computing%29
disnoted
DISTNOTED(8)              BSD System Manager's Manual             DISTNOTED(8)
NAME
     distnoted -- distributed notification server
SYNOPSIS
     distnoted
DESCRIPTION
     distnoted provides distributed notification services.
     There are no configuration options to distnoted. Users should not run distnoted manually.
OS X                         July 1, 2005                         OS X
I also see an "activitymonitord" is running from "root" what is that?
Activity Monitor, it has a root process obvious to watch everything going on.
Please tell me what this means and if it is a virus,
No virus, just turn off Sharing and Bluetooth in your System Preferences > Sharing & Bluetooth
Looks like someone in the "Neightborhood" set up a network thats all.

May have a virus...help please

So I pay WoW and pretty much like 5 minutes ago i was hacked...i remember accidently going to a weird website and a pop up came up and i knew it wasnt good so i backed out...anyways, im fairly new to macs and i heard that macs rarely if ever get a a virus and im curious to how to check for a virus or how to scan or anything like that...sorry if this doesnt help but if you can help i would love you long time.

A pop-up is not a virus but it may be an internet scam. You might try staying away from "weird website(s)" in the future.
You can suppress some pop-ups in your browser by using the pop-up blocker feature. For Safari it's in the Safari menu.

Safari redirect hijack - may have iOS5 virus or trojan

This morning, while clicking on a link on a website, I was redirected to a **** site. Not so unusual, eh?
Except this was on my iPhone 4s, running iOS 5 and Safari, and the same link is good on my Mac desktops.
Clearing data, history, caches, and a reboot does NOT fix the problem.
It appears that there is a virus or trojan on my iPhone. Any ideas?

I also have this exact problem
I don't know how to resolve its I am not an expert in apple devices
If you did eventually resolve this issue, can you please post e solution up here for usto try it too
Regards

I just had a screen pop up from Mozilla Firefox. Warning: system may have found viruses on your computer.

It said for help removing virus's, call tech support online free right away 1-888-989-1604. Is this yours first.
Wvd.proresync.net/sd/coops-1.2.0.html?u=http%3A%2F%2F114934url.directdisplayad.com...........ect

hello, mozilla will never send out such kind of popups - this is a scam trying to trick you into downloading more mailcious stuff. in case you're getting such kind of pop-ups regularily though, this by itself might be a symptom that there is already adware/malware present on your system.
<br>in this case please try the following:
# [[Reset Firefox – easily fix most problems|reset firefox]] (this will keep your bookmarks and passwords)
# afterwards go to firefox > addons > extensions and in case there are still extensions listed there, disable them.
# finally run a full scan of your system with different security tools like the [http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free free version of malwarebytes] and [http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/ adwcleaner] to make sure that adware isn't present in other places of your system as well.
[[Troubleshoot Firefox issues caused by malware]]

Safari may have a virus

Just tonight I have the never before seen symptom of a browser hijack. Queries to Google end up on a Yahoo! Page. I have seen this before on MS machines, but never IOS.

Diavonex,
Thanks for the reply. I followed your advice, and the problem still persists. I even tried clearing, and then completely powering off the iPad.
Typing anything into the search field at the top of the Safari page (an oval that says "Google" in it) results in a Yahoo! error report, "HTTP Status 404 - /search".
Further, the address box clearly contains www.google.com/search?q=safari&ie=UTF-8&&oe=UTF-8&&hl=en&client=safari which is a valid URL.
Ugh!

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