I am Methusela Cebrian Ferrer a researcher previously based in Sydney and now in Melbourne, Australia. My first name is bit long to remember so just call me “Meths”.
My day job comes first but I keep my personal interest here. I regularly update this with anything I find interesting specifically threats on OS X platform whether malicious code, phishing, vulnerabilities, spam and web frauds.
I am open to any comment and suggestion please feel free to send me an email at meths101 (at) optusnet (dot) com (dot) au.
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Best,
Peter
Comment by Peter James — November 26, 2008 @ 9:25 am |
Yes, no worries… I just added it.
Comment by Methusela Cebrian Ferrer — November 27, 2008 @ 5:07 am |
Thank’s a lot you help me to delete a Trojan call MacAccess.A great great thank you and i hope you have not suffered from forrestfires.
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Dr.Jean Labbé
Comment by Jean Labbé — February 15, 2009 @ 5:31 pm |
Hi Dr. Jean, Thanks for dropping by. I’m living around Melbourne CBD (central business district) which is 50-60Km away from the bushfire. We have been experiencing thick smoke and ashes for days now and it’s indeed horrible story for those affected.
Comment by Methusela Cebrian Ferrer — February 17, 2009 @ 11:56 am |
can’t post on the “how to remove “macaccess” trojan” post. when I press submit comment, the page it takes me to just says “discard” in the upper left hand corner of the screen. I’ve posted my situation below, if you could help i’d be very grateful
downloaded it at:
http://booksinprint.osa.pl/db3/edition-with-guide-john1.html
Downloaded it when looking for an ebook. Knew something was wrong when nothing showed up in the applications folder. Did some quick research and came across a story on macworld about deleting trojans. I ran the sudo crontab -l command in terminal and got the following response:
Library/Internet Plug-Ins/plugins.settings”>/dev/null 2>&1
I then ran sudo crontab -r and since then have been getting the response “crontab: no crontab for root” when I run sudo crontab -l.
I turned my computer off for the night and the next time I logged in, I could not connect to the internet. I used my wife’s computer to look for more information and came across this site. After reading this article, I deleted the mozilla and adobe plugins (could not find the i386 or cron files) and downloaded a trial of virusbarrier and moved it over to my computer. Afte r scanning my computer, virusbarrier found the packages in the receipts folder. I deleted the entire “install.pkg” in the receipts folder. I have checked my settings in system preferences and terminal (using scutil and then the command “show State:/Network/Global/DNS”) and never found any foreign DNS servers. Despite all this, I am unable to connect to the internet. I can see my network in Airport, but when I run diagnostics, it says the problem is in Network Settings. The settings are exactly the same as my wife’s computer, save for the fact that in the Advanced menu under the TCP/IP tab, my computer does not specify the router. Could this be the problem, or is the malware still affecting me somehow? I have since run virusbarrier and it is not detecting any problems. let me know if I need to clarify anything.
Comment by Keith — March 1, 2009 @ 12:11 am |