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How to find and remove the OSX.RSPlug.A malware
Authored by: robg on Wed, Oct 31 2007 at 1:43PM PDT

Good advice, agreed ... though I still can't come up with a single app that installs a root crontab under 10.4 or 10.5.

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How to find and remove the OSX.RSPlug.A malware
Authored by: remacc on Wed, Oct 31 2007 at 3:03PM PDT

I had a look at my cron jobs using CronniX and opened Crontab for System.

In it was the system-level Macworld hint on scheduling repairing permissions, and also entries for the System Prefpane 'Deja Vu' backup utilty.

CronniX is perhaps the more user-friendly way to see and manage cron jobs.