Mac Malware Evolves - No Install Password Required

An anonymous reader writes "The latest versions of the Mac Defender malware attacks no longer require users to enter their admin credentials (username and password) upon install. A threat called 'Mac Guard' installs itself into areas of the Mac OS X system that only require standard user privilege. On Windows the criminals did this to avoid UAC warnings, and have copied this trick to their Mac OS X releases."

Comments

I am safe.

[Anonymous Coward]

My PC can't get Mac malware.

Re:I am safe.

[BobNET]

You laugh now, but it's only a matter of time before PCs become popular enough that malware writers start targeting them instead.

Re:I am safe.

[amicusNYCL]

Really? A Mac is not a personal computer? What kind of device is it, then? Perhaps a "different computer"? Also, why does the definition of what a Mac is relate to how long someone has been in a coma? Surely the presence of recently-comatose patients would not change the nature of the machine itself.

Re:PEBKAC

[Anonymous Coward]

Comments like that make me think you are not participating in the two minute hate.

Just embrace the hate of apple and join the group think.

Re:No surprises here

[Savage-Rabbit]

That policy has probably changed now since Apple has publicly acknowledged the threat and announced a fix, as well as publishing how to remove it. That's their M.O. : nobody gabs until word comes down from the mother-ship.

Mother ship? Word? Primitive voice communication went out a long time ago. These days Steve just remodulates the reality-distortion field slightly. If you were a Mac user you would know this.