Thursday, 1. November 2007
Topic: Apple - on November 1, 2007 at 11:56:00 AM CET
Mac users face Trojan threat
A malicious program that poses as a video engine, or codec, necessary to watch pornography could infect unsuspecting users of Apple's Mac OS X operating system, security firms warned on Wednesday.
The program -- called RSPlug by Mac antivirus firm Intego, Puper by McAfee and DNSChanger by others -- has been spreading around Windows computers for some time, but is not considered a significant threat as the victim has to supply the administrator password for the system to be infected. While the Windows version comes as a portable executable (PE) file, the new Mac version comes as a standard disk image (DMG) file. If opened, the file will display a standard install package, according to an analysis of the Trojan by the SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center (ISC).
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