| Tuesday, June 24 2008 |
Nowadays everyone will tell you that most virus, spyware, malware and other malicious definitions are written solely for Windows, but it appears that times have changed a bit. Security experts are warning now about a new Trojan horse released in the wild, targeting Apple operating systems or more specifically Mac OS X Tiger and Leopard (version 10.4 and 10.5). In addition to the usual stuff a trojan can do (run in background, open ports, steal your passwords, replicate etc.) this one can also log what you type in every moment, take screenshots of your active desktop and even take a picture of you using Mac's built-in iSight camera. Here's how it works: AppleScript.THT comes either as a 3.1MB application dubbed AStht_v06 or as a 60KB compiled AppleScript script called ASthtv05. Once started on a Mac OS system it adds itself to the System Login Items and thus runs with root privileges every time the OS is started. Once the system is infected AppleScript.THT also moves itself into the /Library/Caches/ folder. To protect your system against this threat, security experts advice to run SecureMac MacScan 2.5.2 anti-virus software with the latest Spyware Definitions update (2008011). More details on the malicious code and additional removal instructions are posted here.
Source: TG Daily
Source: TG Daily
User comments
I LOL'd at Mac's "secure" OS. No viruses, no nothing. Now, all of a sudden, a Trojan. Mac's are soon going to be like PC's and all of a sudden, Mac users will be like "OMG PC FTW! WOO!"
Here's all a Mac is:
Here's all a Mac is:
Sorry but LoL. When I read it I just had to picture the mac vs pc commercial and wonder what he would look like now : )
Honestly this sounds more like an attack on Apples virus proof campaign than anything else.
Keylogging - semi useful one way to get passwords. More likely its being used to scare people about their personal thoughts. "Terror" not profit.
Webcam control - 1 in what 500 infected computers may get an "indecent" shot. Only really useful for "Terror".
Sounded like everything else was normal trojan activity.
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I've never liked the computers with built in cameras. Its bad enough they have built in mics. DuctTape FTW, lol!
Honestly this sounds more like an attack on Apples virus proof campaign than anything else.
Keylogging - semi useful one way to get passwords. More likely its being used to scare people about their personal thoughts. "Terror" not profit.
Webcam control - 1 in what 500 infected computers may get an "indecent" shot. Only really useful for "Terror".
Sounded like everything else was normal trojan activity.
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I've never liked the computers with built in cameras. Its bad enough they have built in mics. DuctTape FTW, lol!
Sure we will ;) You keep thinking that. Keep fantasizing that Steve Jobs is crying about all of this. Keep fantasizing that Mac users are all upset. Keep fantasizing that in 2 years the Mac will be as infested as the Windows world. Meanwhile I will stay here in reality enjoying my PC for games and my Mac for everything else :)
guys, my question to you guys is... why cant we all stop bashing macs? big fucking whoop if macs cant overclock and dont have games.. its still a great os and beats the crap outta windows, trojan or no trojan...
Im not a mac user but they must be doing something right if this is big news fairs fair i say.
by: timta2Ah, a like minded individual.
Sure we will ;) You keep thinking that. Keep fantasizing that Steve Jobs is crying about all of this. Keep fantasizing that Mac users are all upset. Keep fantasizing that in 2 years the Mac will be as infested as the Windows world. Meanwhile I will stay here in reality enjoying my PC for games and my Mac for everything else :)
There have been trojans and some viruses written for the mac for a while now.
Just being intelligent about your downloads kinda kept things at bay.
But we do know things are changing.
And why all the anti mac vitriol? Are these guys so insecure about their os choices?:o
I use both for different things, and that's life.
About damn time.
I want more like this.
Put the godawful holier-than-thou mac users in their place.
I want more like this.
Put the godawful holier-than-thou mac users in their place.
finaly some action :D
The reason for the aggression is the common (I didn't say intelligent, I said common) mac user will try to use this against the average pc user among other multimedia things. The mac commercials have a similar and unrealistic effect. "Macs are trendy" its marketing.
My prior statement first had humor then went into my opinion of the reasoning behind it. I wasn't bashing anyone. I deal with both macs and pcs.
My prior statement first had humor then went into my opinion of the reasoning behind it. I wasn't bashing anyone. I deal with both macs and pcs.
I can't believe someone would even make a virus for mac's. They already have it bad enough as it is, and they just made it worse. :laugh:
p0rn
by: UnkAsn93They don't.
I can't believe someone would even make a virus for mac's. ...
Throughout the years I disliked Mac for three things, that not a single person here can argue with it.
I have maintained a MAC network for 6 years and I used Apple computers for my first 3 years of computer usage starting back in 94'.
1. Not until recently could anybody make Mac computers, except Mac's personally regulated companies which kept prices in unreasonable realms. Microsoft never did this EVER. This results in price fixing and Quality control issues, through a lack of deversity in production.
2. They don't have enough of the market, to get as much developers. "developers, developers, developers" LOL Not enough developers and companies making software designed for its OS.
3. The mark up on all Apple products is rediculous. There OS is not so bad price-wise, due to the fact that you have to buy expensive hardware from them before you can use the software. Just look at a "MAC Mall Magazine". ;)
I have maintained a MAC network for 6 years and I used Apple computers for my first 3 years of computer usage starting back in 94'.
1. Not until recently could anybody make Mac computers, except Mac's personally regulated companies which kept prices in unreasonable realms. Microsoft never did this EVER. This results in price fixing and Quality control issues, through a lack of deversity in production.
2. They don't have enough of the market, to get as much developers. "developers, developers, developers" LOL Not enough developers and companies making software designed for its OS.
3. The mark up on all Apple products is rediculous. There OS is not so bad price-wise, due to the fact that you have to buy expensive hardware from them before you can use the software. Just look at a "MAC Mall Magazine". ;)
by: DaedalusHelios1. That's the past. The prices are no longer unreasonable. So that's no longer a valid argument.
Throughout the years I disliked Mac for three things, that not a single person here can argue with it.
I have maintained a MAC network for 6 years and I used Apple computers for my first 3 years of computer usage starting back in 94'.
1. Not until recently could anybody make Mac computers, except Mac's personally regulated companies which kept prices in unreasonable realms. Microsoft never did this EVER. This results in price fixing and Quality control issues, through a lack of deversity in production.
2. They don't have enough of the market, to get as much developers. "developers, developers, developers" LOL Not enough developers and companies making software designed for its OS.
3. The mark up on all Apple products is rediculous. There OS is not so bad price-wise, due to the fact that you have to buy expensive hardware from them before you can use the software. Just look at a "MAC Mall Magazine". ;)
2. There's plenty of software for a Mac. Aside from games, you can find an OS X program to replace in functionality, any program written for Windows.
3. Only on some things. The iMac, MacPro, and Mac Mini are all very reasonably priced for their specific categories, especially when you compare them directly to competitors with the same formfactors and features. As for MacMall, even the stuff they have that isn't Mac specific is marked up tremendously. They are just an expensive retailer, and a poor example for Mac pricing.
You also have to do your homework. There are very few peripherals that actually have to be Mac specific to work on a Mac. Other vendors just try to capitalize on the Mac name by making something with a Mac sticker on it, and charging more for it. That, in no way, is the fault of Apple.