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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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  1. Re:cool ... good that I use OS 10.5 by acidfast7 · · Score: 1, Troll

    show me where on the Apple webpage that OS 10.8 is "a safe haven" from trojans and viruses?