Apple imac trojan horse

[riptide]

I went onto my computer this morning and clicked on a website about problems with rabbits as I am having a problem with one of mine. Immediately a critical note came up saying I had trojan horses in my documents, applications, etc and my system was critical. This came from microsoft windows, which I do not have on my system.

Something then tried to download to correct and I turned the machine off immediately. Anyone any ideas what this could be. Should I go and get an anti-virus system for my apple imac which it does not have at the moment. How will I know if anything has attached itself to the hard drive.

Thanks for your help.

[DTCwordfan]

could be a spoof from Microsoft to get you to buy one of their prods. I have a new Asus pc that is fronted by their useless Bing and I have seen this thing you mention twice - up comes a scree showing the number of trojans on c d and f drives - interestinng that one as f is empty. I have Bullguard as my defence and that has shown no infection............

[gen2]

If you don't have MS Windows, then that was almost certainly a scam pop-up that was trying to frighten you into clicking on it.

I doubt if any harm will have come to your Mac as such software will be aimed at the Windows PCs.

[DTCwordfan]

Yes it could well be a spoof too......but you should get yourself a pack of pc condoms for protection - thought there would be a free something out there that you can download. My Bullguard came with the pc and I have 18 free months subscription.

[gen2]

Like this

http://media.bestofmi...dom,6-M-193342-13.jpg

[ChuckFickens]

"could be a spoof from Microsoft"

From Microsot?!?!!?!

It a fake antivirus scan, if you had been running a windows PC and had clicked OK on anything on that page it would have infected your computer and you would have kept getting fake virus alerts and pop ups asking you to pay for the tool to remove it.

You are safe using a mac from pages like that.

[DTCwordfan]

lol......