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Originally Posted by NewChief
Right. I'm worried about malware as well. We're in design, so we work with Macs, but it's still very possible that it's malware related.
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No computer is safe. I am in IT, and our marketing department also uses Macs (student designers use them during the school year). I received a notice from our campus IT Security Office that one of them was broadcasting IRC botnet activity. They took it and determined that a well concealed rootkit had installed itself and disabled the Sophos antivirus we employ on all of our machines.
Back up your media and run a recovery on it. Can't be too safe.
Also, I know of several providers (including Chase and PayPal) that provide a temporary CC authorization service. You can request a new number for a specific amount and is only active for a set period of time. Makes making online purchases safer as the number and security code only exist for a few hours. If you know for sure that this card is only being used for vendors and NOTHING else (not being used as a general business credit card for charging business expenses, mealsl, gas, supplies and so on), then you can narrow down your search.