[cgu]

I think I may have a virus on my computer. In the last few days I have been receiving strange emails, (which I have been deleting immediately). I also received some notification that a virus was detected in an email I sent to someone. I thought Mac's weren't susceptible to viruses. To anyone out there, does it sound like I do in fact have a virus and if so, then how to I get rid of it?
I really appreciate your help.

[Phat Bastard]

Please do a search, this has been covered before.

There is no way your Mac can be infected by the My Doom virus, and the vast majority of PC viruses in fact. Unless you are running Virtual PC, that is.

You can receive emails that contain the virus, and you can pass them along to people (which your antivirus program notified you of), but your computer itself cannot be infected with the virus.

No need to worry!

[typoon]

Originally posted by Phat Bastard:
Please do a search, this has been covered before.

There is no way your Mac can be infected by the My Doom virus, and the vast majority of PC viruses in fact. Unless you are running Virtual PC, that is.

You can receive emails that contain the virus, and you can pass them along to people (which your antivirus program notified you of), but your computer itself cannot be infected with the virus.

No need to worry!

Not only covered but debated as well.

[Phanguye]

Originally posted by typoon:
Not only covered but debated as well.

what was there to debate?

[tooki]

cgu: you're just receiving infected messages from people who ARE infected. Just delete them.

tooki

[fizzlemynizzle]

The ones coming back to you claiming you sent infected messages are wrong. What's happening is that people who have your contact information in their address books are getting infected. The virus pulls your contact info out and resends itself to other people masquerading as you, via forged headers. There's nothing you can do about it other than laugh at the idiot friend/colleague of yours who was dumb enough to fall for an email virus. I've gotten of bounces back myself, so apparently I know a lot of stupid people.

[galaga]

There is no way your Mac can be infected by the My Doom virus...Unless you are running Virtual PC, that is.

If you are running Virtual PC and get infected by a PC virus, is it just the virtual VPC disk that is infected or does your Mac iteself actually get infected?

[cgu]

Thanks to everyone for your replies. I have been deleting the foreign emails as quickly as they arrive, and have been reassured by all of you that although they may have originated out of a PC virus, they will cause no damage to my computer.

Thanks again for your help. It's great to have forums like this where people can easly help one another out.

[typoon]

Originally posted by galaga:
If you are running Virtual PC and get infected by a PC virus, is it just the virtual VPC disk that is infected or does your Mac iteself actually get infected?

It would just be the Virtual PC Partition that gets Affected.

[Earth Mk. II]

Originally posted by fizzlemynizzle:
The ones coming back to you claiming you sent infected messages are wrong. What's happening is that people who have your contact information in their address books are getting infected. The virus pulls your contact info out and resends itself to other people masquerading as you, via forged headers. There's nothing you can do about it other than laugh at the idiot friend/colleague of yours who was dumb enough to fall for an email virus. I've gotten of bounces back myself, so apparently I know a lot of stupid people.

I once got one sent to my main address from another one of my e-mail accounts.

That was a red-letter day. I, apparently, sent a windows virus to myself from my mac.

[nobitacu]

Yea, no worries, mydoom is nothing when it reaches a Mac. Just pass it along to the people using Windows pcs than it'll all good. hehehe.

Ming