Virus/Cleaning/Ver. 4.3.5

Question 1: Is it true that ipad 2s are not subject to virus attacks like PCs are and thus, do not need software like Norton, etc.? If not true, what sofrware is applicable to ensure the ipad 2 remains clean?
Question 2: How do you clean an ipad 2 in terms of all the garbage that collects over time as is found on a PC? I know about the Safari clean process, but get no feed back that it is doing anything after pressing the screen to clean the history, cookies and cache.
Question 3: What did the recent updated software (4.3.5) do?
Thanks.

Question 1: Is it true that ipad 2s are not subject to virus attacks like PCs are and thus, do not need software like Norton, etc.? If not true, what sofrware is applicable to ensure the ipad 2 remains clean?
It would be very difficult for anyone to get a virus or worm onto an iPad since the only place you can obtain software unless you jailbreak the iPad is from the Apple's App Store. In addition, the design of iOS makes very difficult the sort of interaction between apps and the OS that a virus or worm requires. So there is no real need for antivirus on the iPad, and it's probable that traditional antivirus apps would not work for the same reason that a virus wouldn't.
Question 2: How do you clean an ipad 2 in terms of all the garbage that collects over time as is found on a PC? I know about the Safari clean process, but get no feed back that it is doing anything after pressing the screen to clean the history, cookies and cache.
The sort of cruft that collects on a desktop OS can't collect on an iOS-based device since data is stored within each app. There's no way for stray preference files and such to remain on the iOS device when an app is removed.
Question 3: What did the recent updated software (4.3.5) do?
Security patch:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4824
Regards.

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What is the best anti virus cleaner for the mac

What is the best antivirus for mac book pro, osx
cheers

The best is none because you really have no need for it.
Helpful Links Regarding Malware Protection
An excellent link to read is Tom Reed's Mac Malware Guide.
Also, visit The XLab FAQs and read Detecting and avoiding malware and spyware.
See these Apple articles:
          Mac OS X Snow Leopard and malware detection
          OS X Lion- Protect your Mac from malware
          OS X Mountain Lion- Protect your Mac from malware
          About file quarantine in OS X
If you require anti-virus protection Thomas Reed recommends using Dr.Web Light from the App Store. It's free, and since it's from the App Store, it won't destabilize the system. If you prefer one of the better known commercial products, then Thomas recommends using Sophos.(Thank you to Thomas Reed for these recommendations.) If you already use Sophos, then be aware of this if you are using Mavericks: OS X Mavericks- Sophos Anti-Virus on-access scanner versions 8.0 - 9.1 may cause unexpected restarts
From user Joe Bailey comes this equally useful advice:
The facts are:
1. There is no anti-malware software that can detect 100% of the malware out there.
2. There is no anti-malware that can detect anything targeting the Mac because there
     is no Mac malware in the wild, and therefore, no "signatures" to detect.
3. The very best way to prevent the most attacks is for you as the user to be aware that
     the most successful malware attacks rely on very sophisticated social engineering
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4. Internet popups saying the FBI, NSA, Microsoft, your ISP has detected malware on
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5. Some of the anti-malware products on the market are worse than the malware
    from which they purport to protect you.
6. Be cautious where you go on the internet.
7. Only download anything from sites you know are safe.
8. Avoid links you receive in email, always be suspicious even if you get something
    you think is from a friend, but you were not expecting.
9. If there is any question in your mind, then assume it is malware.

Anyone with knowledge of Clamxav as a virus cleaner for my mac pro

Although I have repeatedly asked about whether or not to install spyware and told no need- my accounts have been compromised and I run an old computer PC in household-- anyone iwth knowledge of clamxav- will it do more harm than good

my accounts have been compromised
Which accounts have been compromised? If you are referring to some online account, such as an e-mail account, there is no reason to suspect that you have malware on your computer. That sort of thing happens all the time without malware being involved. Hackers get access to people's e-mail accounts remotely all the time, and if you used the same password for multiple other accounts, chances are good that the hackers will be able to find those accounts by searching through your e-mail and then using the same username/e-mail and password. For more information about e-mail account hacking, see:
Someone is sending messages from my e-mail address!
Of course, if you've got an outdated Windows machine and have accessed those accounts from it, malware could very well be involved. But that would be Windows malware and not a problem to be solved here.

Hi, I have all codes for Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 (MacOSX), but the product was loosed during the virus cleaning. I need the installation and activation of that. Could you help me please?

Bonjour,
J'ai besoin de votre aide pour installer et active mon Adobe Photoshop Elements 10, qui j'ai obtenu de ce site. J'ai un MacBook Air et les codes sont:
< removed> Photoshop 10
< removed> Premières Elements 10 , mais je ne trouve pas le photoshop lui meme pour le telecharger.
Pouvez vous me donner un soutiens pour installer ce produit?
En remerciant en avance,
j'attends votre aide.
Galina Sibiliova
[email protected]

Ici:
Download Photoshop Elements products | 13, 12, 11, 10
But this is a user to user forum. Please don't ever post your serial numbers here. I've removed them for you.

Proxy Settings Re-Appear after Reboot in Registry Post Malware Clean (Windows 8.1 x64)

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I have one specific app which for whatever reason will use Proxy settings if they are there over anything else and doesn't offer and configuration to disable it.
Even though proxy is disabled (and cleared) in IE, this app still doesn't work and I still seemingly get redirected to ads in Chrome sometimes. The log file of the app showed it was trying to connect through 127.0.0.1:58054. The thing is,
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to "0", rebooted, and tried again but the app still failed with the same log message. I went back into the registry and found out that the strings I changed had all been changed back! Below is the key / strings I'm talking about which
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I know that a full OS re-install is suggested - and I actually do it every 3-4 months religiously - but - I currently don't have the time for the full day it
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Any ideas on how I can get this to stop coming back after each restart until I can perform the re-install? Below are the system specs. Thanks!
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Ben K.

Hi,
.default is the profile for the Local System account and is an alias for
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In addition to HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet
Settings, please also check HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-18\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet
Settings and HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet
Settings, make sure all proxy server disabled, then press F5 to refresh registry, check the application, if the issue disappears, the the registry entry is the culprit. Then please reboot the PC, if the issue appears again, the virus is not cleared in your
system. In this case, please try other virus clean program if possible, meanwhile, check if there're unknown software installed in your system.
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TechNet Community Support

Norton Anti virus for OLD Mac.

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I don't know about anywhere Norton can be downloaded but you could try this link to Disinfectant which may work.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macos/1252
I hope this helps.
-Bob

Recover from Cryptolock virus

how best to recover from the cryptolock virus? Also the "firefox.exe" file was lost during the virus cleaning. The rest of the dir tree under "Programs files/Mozilla Firefox" dir is intact. Of course all standard file types that this virus goes after are encrypted under "My Documents" dir tree. Most files are there but others are encrypted. All of this happen on a windows XP home 32-bit PC.
Firefox was the default web access program, so many other programs that try to access the web through Firefox crash or do not run right. There are a number of add ons to Firefox (such as epub, and other readers, PDF, translators, download manager, etc.). Some of the these have files that where encrypted.

Do to the non-response I got from this forum, I had to take solving this in my own hands and here is the results.
First I made a backup all of the dir sets that Firefox uses under "Programs" and "Documents and Settings". This was a precaution against losing some file that sill maybe needed, such as the bookmarks and other personalization data. Being there was no help from this forum on what to do, I copied everything. Then down loaded the latest version (29 in this case) of the installer on a different computer and put it on a USB drive to move to the computer under repair. MS Internet Explorer was never setup or used (although the updates where installed) on the repair computer. I did not want to go through time to see if IE is working, it is not the point here. I then moved the installer file to a temp dir on the repair computer, then ran it. It installed all of Firefox and as expected had some issues with the add-ons. Going through the add-ons one at a time, most just needed a update download and where fine, the Microsoft .Net need to be removed/uninstalled and reinstalled to get it working. Then I went back through the dir sets and removed all of the encrypted files that where left behind, they can't be used anyway. The backup files where not needed and I will be deleting them soon. At this time all is well. See it wasn't that hard to explain.
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If virus cleaning can't rid of it just format the phone. No virus can infect a phone unless you allow it or been dupe to install a apps that's virus itself:
For Formatting *#7370#
Or you could try:
1. Switch off the phone.
2. Hold down the following three buttons: Green (the call answer button), * button, and '3' button.
3. While holding these buttons, press the power button and switch on the phone.
4. When the message 'Formatting' appears on the screen, release all of the buttons.
Make a restore of the backup that you did( date before) before you got that malware !
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Poor Performance after start up and Frequent Crashes

I have a brand new imac i order a little over 6 months ago, i immediately migrated my old imac's files to the new mac and everything worked great but then slowly began to degrade in performance and now i have nothing but problems that have gotten worse.
The first problem occurred with a slow performance speed after about a month of amazing performance.
Then I noticed the new magic mouse i had ordered with the computer would lose connection with the computer causing it to crash, also the new mouse would not hold a charge for long. My last magic mouse did not have this issue.
My computer would fall asleep and then i could be unable to wake it by using my mouse, even plugging in an apple pro wired mouse would not work, i had to turn the power on and off to restart
My bluetooth was acting funny trying to connect to devices i hadn't authorized
Then came a kernel crash.
Then came apple 3 tired support who after weeks of diagnosis over the phone were stumped.
I tried the following to fix the problems myself:
reset the Pram
Repaired Disk Permissions
Checked the hardware
reinstalled the OS
Checked for and installed all software updates
Reset the SMC
Ran 3rd party software "mackeeper" to optimize my files and check for viruses
Clean up unneeded files so plenty of memory
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nothing worked
I was unable to take additional time to deal with the issue, i work and attend school online and was extremely busy during the summer so i had to just deal with the issues because being without my computer was not an option i had.
After my busy summer ended, the problems had only gotten worse
Now, not only does the mac fall asleep and not wake up and not respond to the magic mouse to wake up or reconnect when the mouse and mac lose signal, but now when i plug in a usb flash drive to my external flash drive port, it's like playing russian roulette, half the time it's fine, the other half the computer freeze upon insertion of the drive. I shouldn't have so much anxiety plugging in a 8gb flash drive.
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Model Name:          iMacModel Identifier:          iMac12,1
Processor Name:          Intel Core i7
Processor Speed:          2.8 GHz
Number of Processors:          1
Total Number of Cores:          4
L2 Cache (per Core):          256 KB
L3 Cache:          8 MB
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Thats a shame, you should be enjoying your mac!, what was the final outcome of the Apple support guys?. I think if it were me and i had tried tried everything that you have including the support tech. i would be pressing for a replacement mac.

Can't print test results as "user"

Hi,
I have a program written in Labview 6.1 by another developer. This program runs on a
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stand alone test station and cannot ever be connected to the internet,
we have McAfee virus protection ver. 8.01 installed and running. Test
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on the hard drive and printed on a dedicated printer.
When the operator is
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from the military and the customer and DSS.), so that is not an option.
I have also tried making the test operator a "power user" and he still cannot print his test results.
Thanks for your help.
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CPI Inc.

Hi
The following KnowledgeBase maybe helpful in guiding you how to provide full control of National Instruments products to all users:
http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/BB393E7B361E939886256EFD007AC591?OpenDocument
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Hi, last night my laptop rebooted without warning. During the reboot I got the "Lenovo" boot screen with it saying "Updating your system" for about 5 - 10 minutes. After looking at the logs it seems the reboot was called be a program caled GeekBuddy which I have never used but it seems allows other people to take control of your PC. Is this "Updating your system" likely to have been someone installing a dodgy BIOS? If so is there anything I can do to remove any malware that may have been insallled in the BIOS which reinstalling Windows won't remove?

Sorry I missed this topic when it was posted in July. As richk mentioned, having backups is always good if you run into a malware problem that cannot be cleaned and requires a reformat.
The GeekBuddy that I am familiar with is a support system whereby a Comodo expert makes a remote connection to the computer for tech support, virus cleaning, software installation, and printer setup. It has been available in a paid version and a trial version. Comodo is a legitimate, reputable company. I doubt that their techs would remote to your computer without your permission. However, if you have ever used any Comodo products, such as their firewall, or Internet Security, GeekBuddy may have been installed along with that. GeekBuddy can be uninstalled via your Programs and Features.
http://www.comodo.com/five/geek-buddy.php
Golf, please let us know if you need further assistance. I will be glad to offer some alternatives for resolving this problem.
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As a base to run off:
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit
Intel Pentium
HP G60
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Disabled Norton Antivirus (Temporarily) to see if it was a confliction
Only happens in IE (8 & 9, tried both) but Chrome and Firefox work fine so I'm thinking it must be in the IE plugin or IE itself
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I've also tried resetting IE completely and removing user customizations, didn't work. Reset security levels to default, worked once but then wouldn't display again and security levels were at default.
I am up to date on flash, java, reader, and Windows so I don't believe updating is going to do anything since I am on the latest update.
Please let me know if I left anything out, I tried to leave as much detail as I could.
Message was edited by: jvoytko92 - Forgot Image showing display error

First things to check regarding IE:
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http://forums.adobe.com/thread/867968

CD/DVD Player keeps ejecting,

My Sat A215-S7416, CD player keeps ejecting, it started after I remove the virus Trojan Fake Alert. Any ideas

Try to run a virus cleaner. Not your antivirus program. It surely cannot identify it as a malware since it let it through.

When i try to open iTunes,

my computer won't let me - it says i have a run time error R6025 pure virtual function call--- i have tried reinstalling, anti virus, clean registry -- nothing
Help!!!

For general advice see Troubleshooting issues with iTunes for Windows updates.
The steps in the second box are a guide to removing everything related to iTunes and then rebuilding it which is often a good starting point unless the symptoms indicate a more specific approach. Review the other boxes and the list of support documents further down page in case one of them applies.
Your library should be unaffected by these steps but there is backup and recovery advice elsewhere in the user tip.
tt2

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I had to reinstall FF4 during a virus cleaning process, and there are now 4 control buttons displayed in the upper right corner of the window. From the right, there's the usual "Close" (red), "Restore down" and "Minimize" buttons (both blue), and then there's a fourth, green button, with no "ToolTip" associated with it. What's the behavior of this new button?
I'm not normally this curious, but I've just had a battle with the "Antivirus Antispam 2011" malware, and am very sensitive to new graphics that I don't recognize.
I'm running XP Pro.
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I've found over the past day that its presence comes and goes, presumably based on background apps.
As I'm unable to predict when I'll catch it next time, it's best I close this question and I'll reopen a new question when I can provide a screenshot.
Many thanks for your response, and I'll watch for its reappearance.
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