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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. cool ... good that I use OS 10.5 by acidfast7 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    how about an article on every windows- or android-based trojan.

    1. Re:cool ... good that I use OS 10.5 by courteaudotbiz · · Score: 5, Insightful

      because PC refers to windows viruses

      PC means personal computer and makes no reference whatsoever to the operating system running on it.

      Wrong. When apple did their "I'm a PC, I'm a Mac" marketing campaing, it was perfectly clear they referred to Windows against OSX. They specifically insisted that a Mac and a PC are different, but the geeks we are know that PCs and Macs are almost the same on their hardware base. So what they referred to was about the OS they run.

      AND I AM NOT AN APPLE FANBOY! I have no Mac computers, no iPods, no iPhone