[DM-MUG] Trojan horse warning

[Matt W]

Absolutely, Jon! This should be a total non-issue. Intego has done this before. They like to go to trade shows and convince people in person that there are "hundreds" of spyware threats to the Mac. Ha! No thanks.

You forgot to mention Bit Torrent and peer-to-peer in general. It doesn't necessarily have to be porn to be socially engineered garbage.

Pretty soon it won't be a matter of the "Haves and the Have Nots," it will be the those who've clicked and those who haven't.

Mw

-----Original Message-----
>From: Jon Thompson <jon at mac-consultant.com>
>Sent: Nov 1, 2007 11:47 AM
>To: Des Moines Mac Users Group <dmmug at dmmug.org>
>Subject: Re: [DM-MUG] Trojan horse warning
>
>Legitimate trojans for OS X have been around for a while.  I could  
>make an applescript in about two minutes that would make anyone  
>without a backup very nervous, put a strange icon on it, then send it  
>to someone I know would open it.  That's a trojan.
>
>To avoid this one:
>
>1) Don't surf porn sites
>2) If you are going to surf porn sites, don't trust anything that  
>they say you need to install.
>3) If they do say you need to install something, find a link for the  
>software through Google and install it from there.
>4) Don't surf porn sites
>
>
>On 2007, Nov 1, at 11:16 AM, CW Smith wrote:
>
>> Looks like we might have a legitimate Trojan for Macs running  
>> Leopard. Details on how to identify and remove the Trojan from your  
>> Mac, if it's present, can be found at MacWorld.com:
>>
>> http://www.macworld.com/2007/10/firstlooks/trojanhorse/index.php
>>
>> Hope this is helpful.
>>
>> Peace,
>> CW
>>