The Apple repair place backed off on the malware claim after quite a bit of internal debate. The site does create havoc on my Mac. Apparently the page takes more than 1 GB to load. This seems a bit much for a simple web page.
The site also connects with several of other sites creating a bunch of network traffic. Why I get automount processes that I did not have before the visit is a mystery as is why the site is able to make an eject button appear next to the network icon when no other site does this.
Iâ(TM)m running Mac OS 10.4.11 on a 1.5 GHz Powerbook G4. It has 1 GB of Ram. The browser is Safari 3.1.1 . I had installed the latest Apple security patches the day before I visited the site.
When I clicked on the article "Psystar has begun shipping its Macintosh clones" site my copy of little snitch went crazy. Two automount processes showed up and an eject icon showed up next to my network icon. I took the mac directly into the local apple certified repair place.
They pulled a copy of the web page from cache. We watched the process repeat, they verfied that someone had taken control of my Mac from this site. I'm doing a clean instal of the OS and hoping for the best....
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The Apple repair place backed off on the malware claim after quite a bit of internal debate. The site does create havoc on my Mac. Apparently the page takes more than 1 GB to load. This seems a bit much for a simple web page. The site also connects with several of other sites creating a bunch of network traffic. Why I get automount processes that I did not have before the visit is a mystery as is why the site is able to make an eject button appear next to the network icon when no other site does this. Iâ(TM)m running Mac OS 10.4.11 on a 1.5 GHz Powerbook G4. It has 1 GB of Ram. The browser is Safari 3.1.1 . I had installed the latest Apple security patches the day before I visited the site.
When I clicked on the article "Psystar has begun shipping its Macintosh clones" site my copy of little snitch went crazy. Two automount processes showed up and an eject icon showed up next to my network icon. I took the mac directly into the local apple certified repair place.
They pulled a copy of the web page from cache. We watched the process repeat, they verfied that someone had taken control of my Mac from this site. I'm doing a clean instal of the OS and hoping for the best....