New Mac Trojan Installs Silently, No Password Required

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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Re:Macs don't get viruses.

[mcgrew]

Mod me redundant, but this dimwit just doen't get it. Trojans aren't viruses. They are a completely different kind of malware.

To get a trojan, you need an ignorant user (in this case, the ignorance was justified, since the user had no reason to suspect Apple's walled garden). To get a virus, you only need to visit the wrong web page or read the wrong email. Windows is the only OS with that history.

A trojan is not a virus is not a worm. All are malware, but they are different kinds of malware. You might as well call ghonnorea "aids". They're both illnesses, but one is a virus and one is a bacteria.