[tomdkat]

If so, how did you find out and what happened to your Mac? I'm not asking about potential exposure to viruses or anything like that, I'm talking actual experience with a virus that had some negative impact on your Mac itself.

Peace...

[ferrija1]

I've never even heard of anyone getting a virus on a Mac, it's quite hard to.

[VegasACF]

I've had a virus or two on my Macs over the years. Granted, I've been using them for over 23 years now. Nothing in the last decade that I can recall. There are reportedly some macros that affect the Mac versions of Microsoft Office software, but I've never had the pleasure.

[tomdkat]

Originally Posted by VegasACF

I've had a virus or two on my Macs over the years.

Cool! (Not cool that you got the viruses ). Did these infect OS X or OS 9? What did they do to the OS? Which viruses were they? How did you figure out you had a virus infection?

Peace...

[VegasACF]

Originally Posted by tomdkat

Cool! (Not cool that you got the viruses ). Did these infect OS X or OS 9? What did they do to the OS? Which viruses were they? How did you figure out you had a virus infection?

Peace...

Neither. Think more in the OS 6 and OS 7 days, late 80s, very early 90s. They were some kind of worm viruses, I think, with four-letter acronym names (MDEV? Not sure--I've slept since then). Nothing all that detrimental to the health of my machines, largely because in those days the largest thing they could infect was a floppy disk!

I had one of the first versions of Virex, and periodically would scan floppies that acted strangely. This was on a system that had two floppy drives, one that (usually) housed the system disk, and one that housed the program disk and/or whatever disk to which I was saving files.

This is probably ancient history to most people here. Hey, at least it wasn't punch cards. I actually used those once!

[tomdkat]

Thanks!

Anyone else?

Peace...

[SoltoN]

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