Mac Trojan horse spreads through fake videos, malware site

[eppur_se_muova]

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The Trojan sits behind an online video and when you try to play it you get a message from Quicktime telling you to get a new codec, and if you follow the link you'll be sent to a site that hosts the malicious software.

Click "ok" and enter your systems adminstrator's password and it will be installed on your computer with full system access after which you are, to use the jargon, "pwned", or scuppered.
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At the moment the fake codec is being spread via porn sites, but it will quickly spread to more mainstream sites, and that's when it will get dangerous and could affect a lot of Mac users who believe that they don't need to worry about system security.

Of course this Trojan relies on social engineering to spread, and it does not mark a breakdown in Mac OS security or anything like that.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7079777.stm

[wtmusic]

1. Kinda hard to protect the house if you hand out the

keys to the front door :crazy:

[Breeze54]

2. Could this be related?

:rofl:

MAC UNLEASHES GRAPHIC TERROR AD VS. ROMNEY

http://www.nypost.com/seven/01022008/news/nationalnews/mac_unleashes_graphic_terror_ad_vs__romn_658004.htm

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Political experts said it was the most provocative ad since Lyndon Johnson's 1964 "Daisy" ad that showed a young girl picking petals
off a flower and then the image of an atomic explosion and mushroom cloud to dramatize how Americans lived in a dangerous world.

[gateley]

3. Thanks. I always feel invulnerable because of my Mac! :-)