What virus checker should I use for a Mac and free?
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I tried and tried and tried and tried (believe me I tried REALLY hard! appleinsider, arstechnica, other places where people should be WILLING to gripe!) to find someone anyone to admit there's malware on a Mac. I've been using Windoze all these years and just couldn't believe there's no malware on Macs. Not yet, apparently, just like bernz says. So fetch a copy of ClamXAV if you're gonna send any files to Windoze pals (which you likely will). Else, don't sweat it for now.
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The browser just stops while loading a page. I have sen the same thing with windows machines and it was because of malware sending info or trying to do a redirection.
The browser can stop loading for many reasons; it's best to actually trace some traffic and see what's going on before concluding it's malware that's causing your problem. http://wireshark.darwinports.com/ will show you to a nice traffic analyzer. If you stop all browsing activity (close all browser instances), and still see unexpected traffic, it *could* be suspicious, but there are still many "legit" processes that send and receive minor amounts of traffic.
Another excellent exercise would be to get a process list ('ps aux' or similar; do 'man ps' to get the info) and investigate each one to see if it's familiar (e.g. "ftpd" might be an ftp server -- but are you even running one? if not, that's suspicious! and so on).
Good luck!
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I have downloaded it and have run it. 3 so far but they were all .exe files. It was the facebook one a while back.
Thats the thing there is. a little while back there was a malware that gave somone control over your web cam and another that logs key strokes. And there has been others. I listen to a podcast called secuitynow and at the begining of each they talk about whats been happening in secuity. More and more they are talking about mac thing. Mac is just to populer now for it's own good.