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Mac Malware Evolves - No Install Password Required

Posted by samzenpus on from the under-the-wire dept.

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."

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  1. I am safe. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    My PC can't get Mac malware.

    1. Re:I am safe. by BobNET · · Score: 4, Funny

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

    2. Re:I am safe. by amicusNYCL · · Score: 3, Funny

      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.

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      "Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
  2. Re:PEBKAC by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.