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From: Anic297 on 23 Jan 2010 18:12 Gavin a �crit: > A friend says her Mac has a file (called TUD.EXE) in the recycle bin which > can't be deleted. > > An online virus scan says it's a Win32 virus. How can a Win32 file run on > her Mac? > > I'm not a Mac user so please be gentle with me! Well, the virus isn't running (exe "files" cannot run on a Mac). The file is said to be a Win32 virus by the scan because, wherever the file is (Win32 disk or Mac disk), it's still a virus: the data of the file hasn't changed: if you copy the file back to the Win32 machine, it'll act like it would previously. So the scan sees the file (by examining the file's content) and knows it's something that, if running on a Win32 computer, is a virus. As for why it cannot be deleted, there are plenty of reasons (file locked, file in use, etc.). You may want to know the exact message she is seeing.
From: FromTheRafters on 23 Jan 2010 19:10 "Gavin" <invalid(a)nomail.com> wrote in message news:Xns9D09E7D7EC3685D4AM2(a)160.sjc.astraweb.com... >A friend says her Mac has a file (called TUD.EXE) in the recycle bin >which > can't be deleted. > > An online virus scan says it's a Win32 virus. How can a Win32 file > run on > her Mac? It can't, but that doesn't mean it can't *be* on a Mac.
From: Mr. Strat on 24 Jan 2010 19:01 In article <Xns9D09E7D7EC3685D4AM2(a)160.sjc.astraweb.com>, Gavin <invalid(a)nomail.com> wrote: > A friend says her Mac has a file (called TUD.EXE) in the recycle bin which > can't be deleted. > > An online virus scan says it's a Win32 virus. How can a Win32 file run on > her Mac? > > I'm not a Mac user so please be gentle with me! It can't run (without Windows running in some fashion). There are no OS X viruses...never have been.
From: FromTheRafters on 24 Jan 2010 19:07 "Mr. Strat" <rag(a)nospam.techline.com> wrote in message news:240120101601544706%rag(a)nospam.techline.com... > In article <Xns9D09E7D7EC3685D4AM2(a)160.sjc.astraweb.com>, Gavin > <invalid(a)nomail.com> wrote: > >> A friend says her Mac has a file (called TUD.EXE) in the recycle bin >> which >> can't be deleted. >> >> An online virus scan says it's a Win32 virus. How can a Win32 file >> run on >> her Mac? >> >> I'm not a Mac user so please be gentle with me! > > It can't run (without Windows running in some fashion). There are no > OS > X viruses...never have been. http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/osxleapa.html
From: Mr. Strat on 25 Jan 2010 08:37
In article <hjincv$97l$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, FromTheRafters <erratic(a)nomail.afraid.org> wrote: > http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/osxleapa.html OK...the standard qualifiers...no OS X viruses so long as there is no physical access, special rights, or PEBCAK. |