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New Mac Trojan Installs Silently, No Password Required

Posted by timothy on from the look-ma-no-hands dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A new Mac OS X Trojan referred to as OSX/Crisis silently infects OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and OS X 10.7 Lion. The backdoor component calls home to the IP address 176.58.100.37 every five minutes, awaiting instructions. The threat was created in a way that is intended to make reverse engineering more difficult, an added extra that is more common with Windows malware than it is with Mac malware."

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  1. Macs don't get viruses. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, right.

    1. Re:Macs don't get viruses. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Your are just holding it wrong.

    2. Re:Macs don't get viruses. by Pieroxy · · Score: 5, Funny

      You've got to give credit to Apple though: No Password Required. It's all in the ease of use for the user and not bother them with useless questions and controls onscreen.

      Those stupid trojans ask for passwords on Windows ! Can you imagine the hassle for the user !??!!

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    3. Re:Macs don't get viruses. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Exactly. Mac malware Just Works (tm).

    4. Re:Macs don't get viruses. by courteaudotbiz · · Score: 4, Funny

      Anonymous Coward? Or Anonymous Canadian? Eh?

  2. Re:let's ddos it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Good call. Let me fire up my trojan botnet.

  3. Re:But Macs Don't Get Viruses by SJHillman · · Score: 4, Funny

    Kids and Viruses have a lot in common. They delete all your stuff, cost tons of money in repairs. The big difference is that you usually like it more when your kids replicate.

  4. Re:But Macs Don't Get Viruses by Killer+Instinct · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you had a trojan you might not have kids or catch a bad virus as easily
    -KI

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