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I had a viral infection on Gentoo Linux when someone set a password the same as their username on my box, and I (stupidly) had SSH visible on the default port to the world. I *do* know, however, that stuff exists for Linux. I can’t say much for OS X since I’ve not looked into it. The idea that there’s no malware for anything other than Windows is a very misleading myth, and provides a false sense of security. Exploit-based malware still remains to be seen, but seems likely given that Apple don’t exactly have a perfect security record. The Mac will probably have more social malware in the near future. I hope this doesn’t wake up Symantec into hammering vulnerable Mac users with worthless software. I hope this wakes up those who pirate Mac software. It’s merely a matter of those with malicious intent measuring the profit that can be made (monetary or otherwise) from their exploits. PC and Linux users have not been any more secure in this regard either.
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The security of Mac OS X had held up for 8 years, however no amount of security can truly survive social engineering.
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This may be the first wide-spread, severe malware for Mac OS X to arrive on the scene. Piracy is a matter of attitude, not ideals.
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I have never once met someone who had to choose between eating that day, or purchasing an office suite.Įverything you could ever want to do with a computer can be had for free, if you know where to look and how to use it.
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Most people who pirate software do so out of laziness, habit, ignorance and convenience. I think people need to rush out and get some common sense. (As of 6 am EST, at least 20,000 people have downloaded this installer.) The risk of infection is serious, and users may face extremely serious consequences if their Macs are accessible to malicious users.“ĭo I think that you need to rush out and buy anti-virus software for the Mac? “ Intego is issuing this alert to warn Mac users not to download iWork 09 installers from sites offering pirated software. Trojan horse may also download additional components to an infected Mac.Īs a torrent release of a new and popular product, Intego estimate the potential number of people affected: Malicious user will be alerted that this Trojan horse is installed on different Macs, and will have the ability to connect to them and perform various actions remotely. The malicious software connects to a remote server over the Internet this means that a Normally for Apple startup items), where it has read-write-execute permissions for root. Startup item (in /System/Library/StartupItems/iWorkServices, a location reserved The installer’s request of an administrator password (in older versions of Mac OS X,ġ0.5.1 or earlier, there will be no password request). Trojan horse is launched as soon as a user begins the installation of iWork, following “When installing iWork 09, the iWorkServices package is installed. The Intego report explains how the trojan is installed:
IWork ’09 already doesn’t have any activation or anti-piracy measures, so really people (that is to say, pirates) should be checking MD5s, but then who actually does this when they’re complacent enough already by going to untrustworthy sites to download executables from untrustworthy people? Now apply this to the Mac landscape and you’ve got a majority of people not running anti-virus, nor necessarily the where-with-all to properly check for suspicious activity - or (for those who do know) the pre-disposed nature that “it won’t happen to me”, because they’re on a Mac. I see so many PCs riddled with viruses from people not clued-in enough to know what a file extension is. Whilst I don’t condone piracy, I do firmly believe that those who do pirate should only do it if they know what they’re doing. This raises a particular point about piracy. Whilst a report of a new virus trojan from a company that sells anti-virus software can be construed as a scaremongering, in this case the facts still remain that a poisoned installer package has been created that is in wide distribution. The version of iWork 09, Apple’s productivity suite, are complete and functional, but the installer contains an additional package called iWorkServices.pkg.” Update: A new variant has been discovered in a pirated version of Adobe Photoshop CS4, also information about one target of a DDOS attack coming from the trojan. “Intego has discovered a new Trojan horse,, which is currently circulating in copies of Apple’s iWork 09 found on BitTorrent trackers and other sites containing links to pirated software.
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