If you got to this page looking for the Mac Virus page at macvirus.com (which for a long time has also been the Small Blue-Green World Mac page), welcome! You are in the right place. It should, I guess, really be the Mac Malware home page, but old habits die hard. This is essentially a blog site, though I’ll be adding more reference material here in due course.
Mac Virus was originally launched in the 1990s by Susan Lesch. While one of the contributors currently working in the anti-malware industry with a company that has a Mac product, Mac Virus will remain a resolutely independent site. It is not financed or resourced by any security company, and opinions expressed here do not represent the views, policies or interests of any company. Or even Small Blue-Green World, since Old Mac doesn’t work for us. 
If you’re looking for macvirus.org/macvirus.net, they’re nothing to do with us and seem to have been mothballed. However, you may find more information at http://www.securemac.com.
The entire Small Blue-Green World web site is undergoing a drastic makeover at present, and there will be much more here in the near future. If you want to make contact in the meantime, you can contact me as macvirus [at] smallblue-greenworld.co.uk.
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David Harley FBCS CITP CISSP
Chief Operations Officer, AVIEN
Author/Consultant/MD, Small Blue-Green World
Administrator, Mac Virus
David, thanks for getting this up and running again! Long time coming.
By: Larry on February 5, 2010
at 13:18
Thanks, Larry. It has been a good while but I think the time is right, with all that’s happening in Mac security now.
By: David Harley on February 5, 2010
at 13:26
its really a gud application but pls i want to download an antivirus on my phonepls
By: owadara mabel on November 17, 2010
at 18:45
Virus?
cant
use
spacebar
or
deletebutton
By: Simon on July 16, 2011
at 01:10
Very unlikely to be malware. Have you tried swapping out the keyboard?
By: David Harley on July 16, 2011
at 09:30
Hi Larry….. i just upgraded to Snow leopard today and was able to add the keyboard viewer.. By doing so I was ablew to see that by pressing the control button the spacebar and delete button would function so i know the keys are ok.? I also have another problem of tryingto log into my email accounts.In fact any acc i try to log into the server stops responding. I can load pages just not log into acc…..
Any help is appreciated
By: simon on July 17, 2011
at 00:46
You mean that the kb viewer responds to ctrl-del (for example), but not del? That wouldn’t necessarily rule out a keyboard fault: it depends on the way the keyboard is wired, I guess. But I’m not in a position to offer Mac support, I’m afraid, hardware or software. It’s unlikely to be connected to malware. Your email problem could conceivably be a side-effect of a malware infection, but it wouldn’t be my first guess. And I can’t think of Mac malcode that is noted for causing that effect, deliberately or accidently. You probably need to look at more generalist resources. Sorry!
By: David Harley on July 17, 2011
at 09:20
Hi Larry. I mean that with the help of the kb viewer I was able to check more closely the keys that functioned. I was able to prove by pressing fn & delete/spacebar on keyboard that keys are ok.It now turns out that after a pram boot the keyboard functioned correctly.However once i switched off comp & turned back on there are now more keys not functioning…eg..fn,spacebar,caplocks,tab, ‘,arrow keys(up,Left)……
Email sorted,problem with hotel router.
Any assistance is appreciated
By: simon on July 19, 2011
at 20:48
Sorry, but I don’t have any suggestions. And I’ m not Larry.
By: David Harley on July 20, 2011
at 05:26
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By: Wake up, Mac users… « Inside the Mind on April 18, 2012
at 04:14
The worst Apple Virus Ever!
I downloaded the most destructive virus I ever encountered, and it came directly from APPLE.
I began to be concerned about Apple eliminating iDisk. I use it to transfer files to other computers in my office. I thought I had better get software that would better support iCloud. So having great trust in Apple being that I have been a Mac user since the Mac 512, I downloaded OS X 7.4, LION.
I lost the use of all the important software on my computer. OS X 7.4 Lion does not support PowerPC Applications. Any older software from Adobe like Illustrator and Photoshop and Microsoft Office will not work.
The worst part is there is no way back to on older operating system. You can no longer hold down the C key and start up from a Disk.
OS X 7. Anything is a VIRUS
I am,
Larry D. Rose
Graphic Design Consultant
By: Larry D. Rose on June 11, 2012
at 13:35
I’m sorry to hear that, but backward compatibility has never seemed a high priority for Apple… That’s rather different to distributing intentionally malicious software, though.
By: David Harley on June 30, 2012
at 11:29