new trojan tempts mac users with free porn
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-20 20:41:53
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By Kevin McLaughlin. CMP Channel7:29 PM EDT Thu. Nov. 01. 2007The appearance this week of a malicious Trojan cater targeted specifically at Mac users is fanning the flames of the Mac-versus-PC security debate. On Monday security vendor Intego reported a flood of spam being sent to several Mac user forums which lures users with the promise of free pornographic videos. But when the user visits the Website an alert box informs them that they need to transfer a missing video codec before the fun can begin. Overeager users that move the link will have a disk image file ( dmg) downloaded to their machine but the installation won't proceed unless the user enters the administrator password and doing so gives the Trojan beat grow privileges on the machine according to Intego. Once installed the Trojan operates in the background until the user visits online banking payment or auction Websites at which measure it alters the Mac's DNS server and redirects users to nearly identical Websites set up for phishing purposes.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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