Secure Apple Macs Fall Prey To Linux DDoS Trojan

[entropy13]

but everyone knows mac don't get virus's .. . .

Everyone except the heathens, the ignorant rabble, the enemies of the great Apple Triumphant, knows that.

 

[pr0n Inspector]

Everyone in the tech world knows Apple news generates controversy and subsequently many hits. That's why you see it everywhere, even on a PC elitist site like TPU.

Oh, don't mind me, I'm just talking to my shiny waterblock.

 

[Mussels]

Everyone in the tech world knows Apple news generates controversy and subsequently many hits. That's why you see it everywhere, even on a PC elitist site like TPU.

Oh, don't mind me, I'm just talking to my shiny waterblock.

you realise there are macs out there that come with watercooling, yes?

 

[pr0n Inspector]

you realise there are macs out there that come with watercooling, yes?

There are not. Apple is the only Macintosh computer manufacturer and none of their products are watercooled. Everything else is aftermarket.

If sarcasm was present it was not detected.

 

[Widjaja]

Eh....
I don't think this will viral dilemma cut sales at all.
Or even make it big enough to reach the public in a way that people will realize AppleMacs can get infections.

Just keep on making the Apple Mac systems looking fancy, make more images of sexy women using them, high profile celebs, have them in big budget movies used by heros and heroines while the bad guys use the PCs.

Win marketing tactic.

 

[Mussels]

There are not. Apple is the only Macintosh computer manufacturer and none of their products are watercooled. Everything else is aftermarket.

If sarcasm was present it was not detected.

it was not sarcasm. i have seen stock apple mac computers come with watercooling.

they might not be doing it now on the x86 platform, but they sure did in the past.

 

[qubit]

it was not sarcasm. i have seen stock apple mac computers come with watercooling.

they might not be doing it now on the x86 platform, but they sure did in the past.

It sounds like Apple may have been more techie oriented then, perhaps? It's a good feature, for sure.

 

[pr0n Inspector]

That was way back in the PPC era, in computer time this is longer than an eternity.

 

[dorsetknob]

"" Ello ""
Getting back to the core subject of apple and worms/trojens
Todays latest news


http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/31/mac_os_x_bitcoin_mining_trojan/

and you also might want to vist here
http://www.iantivirus.com/threats/
for a non - comprehensive list of nasties ( as time passes its going to get longer)
http://www.marketingvox.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/appleworm.gif

 

[Mussels]

ooooh thats nasty, a virus that makes them money instead of steals it.

 

[m4gicfour]

Potentially, it does both. It hijacks the mac to perform bitcoin mining, it searches the machine for bitcoin wallets and loots them, and it sends personal data (potentially including financial data such as credit card numbers) to remote servers.

It'd be a great way to make a quick buck if you had no morals.