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The fact of the matter is that there are no known viruses for Macintosh in the wild. It's far more likely that your AOL password was compromised.
However, convincing AOL of that could be difficult. It's not impossible that there's something nasty on your computer.
If you want to run a couple of programs and send the output to me, I can take a look at them and see if I can spot any anomalies:
- Run /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor
- Go to File...->Save... and save the output to a file
- Exit Activity Monitor, and run /Applications/Utilities/Network Utilities
- Click on the "Netstat" tab, check the "Display state of all current socket connections", and click on the "Netstat" button.
- Go to Edit->Select All, and then copy and paste the output into an email message.
- Send it along with the Activity Monitor file you created to me.
Thanks, Tom!
Yeah, I just changed my password and hope that makes it all better.
My system is running just fine, none of the weird buggy issues that would point to a nasty bug. But you know, better to check.
ooh. I don' have anything called Activity Monitor in my utilities folder.
Really? Are you running 10.4? What happens when you do a spotlight search for "Activity Monitor"?
Ah. Is there something called "Process Viewer"?
I couldn't see anything unusual, Allyson.
Thanks for looking into it. I think someone just got hold of my rather crappy password. AOL makes me mad. But I'm just too attached. It always sends me flowers after it beats me.
