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New Targeted Mac OS X Trojan Requires No User Interaction

Posted by Soulskill on from the cursed-by-popularity dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Another Mac OS X Trojan has been spotted in the wild; this one exploits Java vulnerabilities just like the Flashback Trojan. Also just like Flashback, this new Trojan requires no user interaction to infect your Apple Mac. Kaspersky refers to it as 'Backdoor.OSX.SabPub.a' while Sophos calls it at 'SX/Sabpab-A.'"

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  1. Re:No user interaction by buchner.johannes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Isn't a Trojan that requires no user interaction by definition a Virus?

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  2. Re:Missing from summary by slashmydots · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I didn't consider mac users lording their "super advanced security and magical virus immunity" as "good times." It's about time someone reminded them that Windows is far more secure, it's just targetted more. This is going to be the beginning of a long line of taking them down a notch.

  3. Re:No user interaction by Mitchell314 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Oh come on slashdot, I'm a mac fan and even I found this funny. No need to mod down.

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  4. Re:Fix Available by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    pfft, out of the frying pan, into the blazing inferno of thrown chairs.

    Better fix here.