Trojan/Virus for Mac OSX Out in the Wild

-- It's not particularly sophisticated

I'm not exactly shaking in my boots here.

I'd just like to point out that with a firewall and minimal/no virus updating I've avoided virii for pretty much my whole PC life. Its just a matter of damn common sense, what programs you use and how you configure and use them. People who randomly click links, open attachments, surf shitty porn or warez pages or use Outlook, are asking for it really.

or internet explorer! or install plugins to view porn....

also:

In the English language, the standard plural of virus is viruses. This is the most frequently occurring form of the plural, both when referring to a biological virus and when referring to a computer virus.

The less frequent variations viri and virii are virtually unknown in edited prose, and no major dictionary recognizes them as alternative forms. Their occurrence can be variously attributed to hypercorrection formed by analogy to Latin plurals such as radii; idiosyncratic use as jargon among a group, such as computer hackers; the incorrect assumption that the word is of Greek origin, requiring an -i plural; and deliberate word play, such as on BBSs (see, e.g.: leet).

I know I'm not supposed to use those programs but I'm too lazy to find alternatives when those work fine. I tried Mozilla once but it was SLLOOOOOOOWWW. That was on my old PC though, probably works fine on our current one.

er, only insofar as "why would anyone write a virus for the mac given that its user base is so small?" it seems a truism that, if/as market share increases, there'll be more people trying to write malware etc. the fact we're not all rife with it suggests that, y'know, OS X is pretty secure.

it seems this trojan claims to be a JPEG ... which then asks you for yr password when you double-click on it! now, come on. you'd have to be pretty damn dense not to realise something was up. TBH, i'd hope anyone stupid enough to fall for that wouldn't have an admin password anyway ;)

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http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/01/16/mac_malware_concern/

the register always runs this boilerplate every time somebody comes out with some lame trojan that targets macs. eh

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001388.html

ok lol

I called Apple and spoke with a couple of their reps. ... The reps were incredulous about the existence of malware specifically targeting Macs. They looked up articles about it while we were on the phone — they wouldn't believe me until they looked it up for themselves.