I'll try my best.
The mac came with leopard installed on the main harddrive but i bought this system to be able to run a fast OS9 machine so i formated the second harddrive and used the drag-install from the forum.
there is more then one version of this "Drag install" posted which is why i asked u to be specific
i just wanted to know 2 things..
which exact url for the cubase u downloaded
and exact url for the drag install version u downloaded
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we need to delete whatever file it is u downloaded so noone else gets infected
Then i proceded as mentioned in the guide.
I copied the drag-install to a folder to have a fresh backup in case of reinstalling the OS and booted to the second harddrive to do the same with the first less the copying of the drag-install to a backup folder as i already had a copy on the second and booted finally to the first harddrive.
I downloaded the Internetbrowser Classilla, i think i downloaded it through my PC and copied to the mac with an USB stick, don't remember well and from there on i downloaded everything through the mac with classilla.
i first downloaded the drivers for the edirol fa-101 and the tascam us-428 and the cubase web installer from steinbergs webpage, the 5.2 public beta version because i was interested in using the system link function with
the cubase 6 AI version i have running on my PC with the steinberg firewire soundcard mr816 running windows7.
then i installed some VSTi plugins: FM7, ModelE, all from images i burnt to Cd's downloaded from the internet. I
remember that i downloaded FM7 from a Torrent and the ModelE i had a copy from the past. I also refreshed a copy of a burnt cubase vst 5/32 cd, burning it again because the old one wouldn't authorize any install complaining about scratches on that cd.
i also remember that i recently found traces of that sevendust virus of a complete scan i did on my windows machine where i host software downloaded.
As i formated both harddrives i think i maybe have some infected files i'm trying to install so i think i'll have to start over again and try to stay as clean as posible and to see if i can minimize risks with downloading everything from my windows machine again only from sources from here leaving the mac disconnected from internet.
you shouldnt have to delete everything the virus should not be spreading or infecting other files on a windows based computer while being stored on the drive
its a mac only virus that can only infect when an executable is run (pretty sure about this someone correct me if im wrong)
i'll have to look into how to install the OS9 now as i want to delete everything on my two harddrives. Maybe from my 2Gb USB stick with that openfirmware trick ?
I have the possibility to do it through the firewire target mode from my eMac with OSX Tiger/Leopard but i don' t want to mess up anything mixing OS9 with OSX.
Any advice highly appreciated!
Thank you Chris.
i would reccomend wiping a single drive first, repartition in 2, installing tiger 10.4.x, and then booting into tiger, installing to the 2nd partition with the proper drag install file or os9general.dmg
and then u can wipe the 2nd drive.. alternatively if u dont want to partition u can wipe one drive first and install osx and then wipe the 2nd and install os9 to each drive exclusively....
but before u do any of that .. its important that we verify the location of the infected file.
perhaps u got infected from steinberg
i would reccommend u dont download anything from them untill we figure out where this infection is coming frm..... download the files from edirol or tascam directly or get them from another user who has them on cd. we need to find otu where this virus infection is coming from.. syntho has been infected.. i havent. i was wondering if it was from me on one of my other macs because i was the one who uploaded teh fresh drag install for osx.. not the os9 version theres two versions posted one is a stuffit file and the other is a img or dmg or smi or something that i created..
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