Mac viruses finally arrived
I’ve been wondering when we would see our first Mac virus. It showed up last week. The funny thing is that the way we found it was by a Windows computer. There are a few Windows machines on site and the good news is that they spotted the Mac virus too. That gave us the impetus to find out when the anti-virus the district ordered would arrive. It turns out that there are so many orders that the purchase has to go out to bid.
In the meantime, I borrowed a copy & cleaned both the source of the virus and my own laptop. The other computer was easy to do: 3 infections and all deleted easily.
Of course, mine wasn’t so easy to do: 7 infections and 4 of them could not be deleted by the program. I ended up deleting them manually.
Since the anti-virus the school district is purchasing only covers staff computers, not student or “public” computers, I’ve been thinking of installing a free anti-virus on them. Clam X is getting a lot of good public support.
For now, I may just scan the golden drives before I roll them out.
