Folks, The man that programs for me in Cincinnati sent this to me yesterday, I thought I would pass along.
John R. > > Greetings All, > > You may want to pass this along to anyone you know who has a Mac. > There is a new "Trojan Horse" specifically targeted at Mac OS X > Systems on the Internet. At the moment it is available only on Porn > sites, so I am confident that none of you could be affected. > However, it is possible that the Trojan could be moved to other > sites, so it is good to be aware of this threat. > > http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/10/31/new.trojan.targets.macs/ > > Basically a "Trojan Horse" is not a virus or spyware, it is an > application that appears to be useful to you in a deceitful way, > tricking you into downloading and installing it on your computer. > It may actually do useful work for you, however it also does things > behind the scenes that you would not want on your Mac. This > particular Trojan takes over certain aspects of your Mac, possibly > capturing usernames and passwords for online banking sites, eBay > and/or Paypal. This is a very severe threat. > > This particular Trojan is "required" in order to view free videos > on a porn website. So Mac users are deceived into downloading and > installing the Trojan. Keep in mind that this Trojan may be added > to other, more innocent, sites which display videos, such as a news > site or a site similar to "YouTube". So if you run into any site > which asks you to download and install a video viewer, be very > careful before proceeding. > > I think well-known video sites such as YouTube or Google are safe, > but avoid any others which require a player that you do not have. > > Probably the best way to install the appropriate software to view > online videos would be to go directly to Apple's site, and search > for the appropriate player. You need to know which player you need, > but the most common (other than QuickTime, which you should already > have) are Windows Media Player and the Adobe Flash (SWF & FLV) > Player. Both of these are available on Apple's site. > > http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/index_top.html > > Another popular video format is RealVideo, and the player is > available directly from Real at www.real.com. However there is a > fee for this player, so personally I just pass on videos in this > format. (typically you will run into this format on websites for > newspapers or TV stations) > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20071101/cf113b18/attachment-0001.html
