Re: activex object error

In article
<83ed4540-43df-453e-a380-699d16e3c31d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Pau Pé <paubcn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've got this trojan that you get when trying to watch a porn image/
video, and it tells you to download this, and since you're using a
mac, you download it thinking viruses are not for mac.

LOL... please...

Maybe *you* do that, but a whole lot of the rest of us don't have a
habit of downloading and installing things from untrusted "pornography"
sources.

How silly...

So how do I get rid of it please?

First of all, this has nothing at all to do with ActiveX, which,
thankfully, never has, and hopefully never will, run on Macs.

No, if you have anything, it's *not* a virus, but a trojan. The most
likely candidate would be the OSX.RSPlug.A which seems to be all the
rage at shady video codec download web sites these days. If you are, in
fact, infected with this trojan malware, here's what you need to know to
remove it:

<http://www.macworld.com/article/60823/2007/10/trojanhorse.html>

While there aren't any viruses in the wild for Mac OS X for the past
eight or so years, *no* computing platform is completely immune to
attack - especially the kind where users download and install the
malware onto their own computers! I hope you will learn from this
experience. We expect better from fellow Mac users. Get some smarts,
please - don't download and install software from strangers. ; )

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