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Is there built-in Antivirus software in Snow Leopard?
The Intego blog is reportingthat Snow Leopard appears to contain some sort of built-in antivirus protection. Check out the screenshot below which popped up when a user tried to open up a .dmg file infected with a DNS changer trojan horse. ZDNet speculates on the matter: It is not yet clear how Apple is handling […]
Continue reading...Report: Malware of the future will be OS independant
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
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The Washington Post reports: Security researchers increasingly are finding that sites designed to trick the visitor into installing malicious software will serve different malware depending on whether the visitor arrives at the page using a Microsoft Windows PC or a Mac. Trend Micro researcher Ivan Macalintal recently found a new variant of the dreaded DNS […]
Continue reading...iWork and CS4 Trojan designed to create first ever Mac Botnet
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Remember a while ago when pre-release copies of iWork ’09 showed up on P2P networks? And remember how those copies were later found to contain a pesky little trojan? Well, researchers at Symantec are reporting that infected P2P copies of both iWork ’09 and Adobe CS4 contained a malicious trojan designed to create the first […]
Continue reading...Malware on the Mac: Caught on Tape [Video]
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Check out how these mofos attempt to spread a new RSplug Trojan horse to Mac users: via Sophos
Continue reading...iWork ’09 pirates get an unpleasant surprise
Friday, January 23, 2009
Users who recently decided to pirate a copy of iWork ’09 might end up paying the price after all. A security alert was recently issued for Mac users who installed pirated versions of iWork, noting that the pirated version of Apple’s competitor to Microsoft Word contains a dangerous trojan horse. Reports indicate that over 20,000 […]
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
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