Hi,
Everyone I am a student looking into Security as my major.
I have wanted to conduct my own experiment with Macs regarding the issue “Do the get virus’s?”
So After running a scan using avast Free for mac!, I generated these results. But I am not sure how to interpret the items that it brought up.
I am using a 7 year old Macbook running Snow leopard 10.6.8, have done security updates regularly, but never ran any any virus/ malware until yesterday. What do you think?
The files with the yellow triangles are warnings that files inside an compressed archive could not be scanned.
The one file which is marked red detected as Win32:Patched could be a false positive or a detection inside a VM.
Avast just detected a Trojan which creates a backdoor on macs, through this you can put malicious code on the system.
I would think that if I have a trojan on my operating system on a VM, I would not be affected on my mac in anyway.
Unless the VMware file has a trojan?
If I delete this file or quarantine any of the others, Will that affect how to are run. I use linux, and Java every week.
Thanks very much