Insert an empty USB drive into your PCs USB port, then select Create USB on the main Rescue Disk screen. Click Rescue Disk on the right side of the screen. Open the Avast Antivirus user interface and select Protection Virus Scans. To create Rescue Disk on a CD, follow these steps. I recently travelled overseas for 2 months and within a week my InBox overflowed because I was not there to clear it, and I couldn't use my eMails anymore. To create Rescue Disk on a USB drive, follow these steps. I also am flooded by spam, which seem to breed, the more I junk them the more they breed. I quite regularly get browser malware, across the several browsers I use, but maybe they've got their hooks into me somewhere, I browse a lot and since I download most of my TV shows I get hit there a lot.ĭespite I have pop-up blocks I still get them coming up under open windows and the cunning buggers make them open the Print dialog box which makes them harder to dismiss. The OP clearly used the term Virus loosely and you are choosing to go by the strict definition, which still does not absolve the MacOS from vulnerability, just Apple has good protection and keeps patching the OS. Unless that is semantics? This is where we get arguing over how many angels there are on the head of a pin. There are no known viruses that affect Mac OS. The main concern for Macs really is passing on viruses to Windows users via Mail, not actually catching them. Macs don't get the firmware virus because the Virus uses Windows' Autorun, again something MacOS doesn't have.
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These however do not work on Macs as MsOffice for Mac does not have macros and a converted MsOffice document can't pass them on, the conversion simply works on the text. Microsoft documents have vulnerabilities in the macros embedded. I think you are suspecting either a Virus via the FlashDrive firmware, something that existed many years ago, or have a Microsoft document on the drive. So please do not perpetuate a dangerous myth.
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I regularly run a sweep with VirusBarrier Pro which generally finds something, mostly Adware in the Browsers. Apple keeps issuing updates to correct any vulnerabilities for a reason and has been criticised by industry experts for on occasions not fixing problems for extended periods of time, but given a low probability of being attacked does not equal no probability, precautions are still necessary. There are viruses and malware for MacOS it is just that the protection is pretty good and they rarely get any traction.
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