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MacScan Detects Spyware
limpymac writes "MacScan public beta was announced to the public short minutes ago. MacScan will detect, isolate and remove spyware on the Macintosh. Currently it will detect trojan horses and keystroke loggers without a hitch. The application is for Mac OS and Mac OS X and is created by the folks at SecureMac.com. I found a keystroke recorder on my Macintosh I installed a year ago and forgot to remove; hah, I have a year's worth of logs!"
MacScan Spyware Detection
posted by AcaBen on Friday December 13, @07:40AM
from the undboubtetdly-more-coming-for-x dept.
On MacSlash
Spyware...that's a Wintel thing isn't it?
Both CERT and SANS are warning of a new spyware package for MacOS [X] that masquerades as a spyware scanner! ;-)
-psy
is for someone to hurry up and port some spyware to the Mac, so this product will have something useful to do.
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I found a keystroke recorder on my Macintosh I installed a year ago and forgot to remove; hah, I have a year's worth of logs!
They may not actually be as interesting / immersive as the year of typing itself.
Keep your packets off my GNU/Girlfriend!
...or is apple.slashdot.org mirroring macslash more and more recently? The interesting thing is that macslash usually beats slashdot to it, but the interesting discussions happen here. :)
Triv
Be nice to your friends and let them spy at you :-)
Doesnt that make you feel special. Nobody would spy at ordinary people....
My company is called MacScan Ltd. Although it is nowt to do with this product, scanning or macs.
It comes from Macdonald and Scanlon.
per mere, per terras
The wintel world has something that can get Gator and friends out the door - AdAware from Lavasoft.
Why can't I moderate something "Wrong" or at least "Grossly Misinformed"?
I nearly shit myself when I saw that these guys were releasing a FAT binary. Hell, I haven't seen one of those in ages. I feel a sudden urge of nostalgia to find a computer running System 7.
... now can I get the girl on the front page to come to my house and scan me while the software is scanning my computer?
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
Antivirus software just cannot detect it.
That's because you gave permission to install it via some sneaky click-wrap license. You know, those ones you never read? AV companies have the technology, but they would probably get their pants sued off if they called another company's product malicious when it was merely annoying or nosy--and when the user supposedly consented to it being there.
The wintel world (win9x) needs something that can get Gator and friends out the door.
There are plenty of them already, like Pest Patrol, Spybot S&D, and Ad Aware.
There's a lot of good information on spyware at Doxdesk and Spyware Info.
you truely are a hacker!
"NO!!! Don't mix the red and gree- *KABOOM!!!*
"George, I told you to put that stuff away. What's that, the third model we've killed? Well, see if we at least snapped the photo in time."
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If I set it to scan everything from the root directory on down, it crashes without fail. Pretty beta so far.
I just compiled this too and got the same result. Everything else checks out OK. Perhaps this has something to do with the way OS X writes to /etc/passwd. I don't really understand the output from running chkrootkit -x passwd, but it does seem consistent with the view that it has to do with something specific OS X is doing. It might be worth emailing the fink people about putting chkrootkit into fink and writing a version that doesn't have this error. Assuming it is an error; the alternative is, both of us have been rooted!