Did mom infect the whole school?

**The_Other_One** · 08-18-2006, 07:13 PM

I was a little afraid to research this any more, but here's what happened. Mom works at an elementary school, and she was in her room preparing for next week. She gets on her computer and starts removing some emails when she suddenly gets lots of crap on her desktop. Oh, I should mention the school runs basically all macs, don't know about their servers...

Anyway, she calls me down there. She has all this crap like turtle.gif, smut.gif, viagra.gif, and basically about any word you can think of .gif. I get rid of them all, then glace over to her assistance's computer who also had a desktop full of that crap

Realize again, mom didn't see this until she started clearing her emails...

My main question, does anyone know what this is? If so, might she of infected all the computers? I don't know too much about Macintosh virus's and I was afraid to dig around too much to see what she'd deleted...

mrjack · 08-18-2006, 08:05 PM

Seems like she opened the emails to see what they were, and got some kind of malware or similar.

daygowop · 08-18-2006, 09:26 PM

i was thinking that also but it is weird that a mac got infected by a virus that bad because macs generally do not get viruses.

**The_Other_One** · 08-18-2006, 10:11 PM

My thoughts exactly...

OvenMaster · 08-19-2006, 04:49 PM

My thought is that opening the emails on one machine spread their payload to other computers on that same server. With mac viruses, only God knows how they work, but logic tells me that's what happened here.
Tom

Sacrinyellow5 · 08-19-2006, 04:54 PM

Yeah sounds like something which is on the server more than your mom infecting other computers. I dont think she couls just open an email/attachment and have the contents spread onto another computer or the net work. Maybe if she stored that email on the network storage then she might have done something there, but it seems to me it might be something on the server. More than likely the server is pc and thats why it is spreading the problem so easily...

Impr3ssiv3 · 08-19-2006, 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by daygowop

i was thinking that also but it is weird that a mac got infected by a virus that bad because macs generally do not get viruses.

that because people dont really write viruses for MAC because it easier on a PC. but there are still MAC viruses

**The_Other_One** · 08-19-2006, 06:11 PM

I know there are some virus's out there for macs. I mean, there are even Virus's for the PDAs. Realize, only about 7 currently found, but they're out there

As for infecting the server, I was wondering that... That is also why I mentioned not knowing what the servers were. Wouldn't be hard if it was a PC

holyjunk · 08-19-2006, 11:34 PM

What are you going to do then Other? Clean all the school's computers.

You should try to find a e-mail filter of some sort or tell her to look more closely at them.

08-18-2006, 07:13 PM	#1 (permalink)
The_Other_One Super Moderator Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Lexington, NC Age: 24 Posts: 12,368	Did mom infect the whole school? I was a little afraid to research this any more, but here's what happened. Mom works at an elementary school, and she was in her room preparing for next week. She gets on her computer and starts removing some emails when she suddenly gets lots of crap on her desktop. Oh, I should mention the school runs basically all macs, don't know about their servers... Anyway, she calls me down there. She has all this crap like turtle.gif, smut.gif, viagra.gif, and basically about any word you can think of .gif. I get rid of them all, then glace over to her assistance's computer who also had a desktop full of that crap Realize again, mom didn't see this until she started clearing her emails... My main question, does anyone know what this is? If so, might she of infected all the computers? I don't know too much about Macintosh virus's and I was afraid to dig around too much to see what she'd deleted... __________________ Desktop * Athlon X2 4200 \| 2G RAM \| 160G HD \| 7600GT Laptop1 * C2D T5550 \| 3G RAM \| 120G HD \| Intel x3100 Laptop2 * C2D T5250 \| 2G RAM \| 160G HD \| Intel x3100

08-18-2006, 08:05 PM	#2 (permalink)
mrjack VIP Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Finland Age: 17 Posts: 2,369	Seems like she opened the emails to see what they were, and got some kind of malware or similar. __________________ Main rig: Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 @ 3GHz \| MSI P7N Zilent 2x2048Mb OCZ Titanium 800MHz DDR2 Samsung Spinpoint T166 320Gb SATAII Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250Gb SATAII Western Digital Caviar 500Gb SATAII MSI NX8800GT OC 512Mb @ 660MHz/950MHz Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio \| Antec Truepower Trio 550W

08-18-2006, 09:26 PM	#3 (permalink)
daygowop Silver Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Age: 22 Posts: 202	i was thinking that also but it is weird that a mac got infected by a virus that bad because macs generally do not get viruses. __________________ got pasta?!

08-18-2006, 10:11 PM	#4 (permalink)
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08-19-2006, 04:49 PM	#5 (permalink)
OvenMaster VIP Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Red Sox Nation Age: 49 Posts: 2,033	My thought is that opening the emails on one machine spread their payload to other computers on that same server. With mac viruses, only God knows how they work, but logic tells me that's what happened here. Tom __________________ Frankenbox III: CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ * MOBO: Biostar K8M800 Micro AM2 * RAM: 2x1GB Kingston DDR2 667 HDD: WD 80GB Master, Seagate 320GB Slave * OPT: two Pioneer DVR-115DBK DVD burners PSU: Antec Basiq 500W * GPU: PNY GeForce FX5200 256MB AGP 8x * MON: ViewSonic LCD VA721 CASE: EvTek minitower * SND: Diamond Xtreme 5.1 * OS: XP Home SP2 * ROUTER: Linksys BEFSR41

08-19-2006, 04:54 PM	#6 (permalink)
Sacrinyellow5 Platinum Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: St. Louis Posts: 919	Yeah sounds like something which is on the server more than your mom infecting other computers. I dont think she couls just open an email/attachment and have the contents spread onto another computer or the net work. Maybe if she stored that email on the network storage then she might have done something there, but it seems to me it might be something on the server. More than likely the server is pc and thats why it is spreading the problem so easily... __________________ Harvey Pekar "Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff" ------------------------------------------------- -Tower /AMD 64x2 Dual Core 4400+ (2.3Ghz) 3 GB DDR2/Geforce 8600GT(SSC)/160 SATA HD/DVD-RW/Vista Home -Laptop /Core 2 Duo T6460 (1.66Ghz)/2 GB DDR2/Intel GMA X3100/250 SATA HD/Vista Premium -Server /P4 2.26 Ghz/1 GB Ram/GeForce FX 5200/80 & 250GB HDx2/DVD-RW/XP -MAC G4(Quick Silver)/768 Mb Rams/40 GB & 2x120GB HD/DVD-RW/OSX Go Cards!

08-19-2006, 06:11 PM	#8 (permalink)
The_Other_One Super Moderator Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Lexington, NC Age: 24 Posts: 12,368	I know there are some virus's out there for macs. I mean, there are even Virus's for the PDAs. Realize, only about 7 currently found, but they're out there As for infecting the server, I was wondering that... That is also why I mentioned not knowing what the servers were. Wouldn't be hard if it was a PC __________________ Desktop * Athlon X2 4200 \| 2G RAM \| 160G HD \| 7600GT Laptop1 * C2D T5550 \| 3G RAM \| 120G HD \| Intel x3100 Laptop2 * C2D T5250 \| 2G RAM \| 160G HD \| Intel x3100

08-19-2006, 11:34 PM	#9 (permalink)
holyjunk Diamond Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Age: 17 Posts: 1,622	What are you going to do then Other? Clean all the school's computers. You should try to find a e-mail filter of some sort or tell her to look more closely at them. __________________ pentium 4 1.5GHz 512mb pc133 19inch crt monitor Radeon 9200se X-Fi Extreme Music LOGITECH Z-5300E!! *family pc, hope to get mine in a year or so.

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