On Jan 24, 2009, at 8:56 AM, Profile wrote:
As a follow up, this article explains that the Trojan horse is from Pirated software, if we are honest and don't participate in these activities is this malware able to get to us through emails from infected Mac's?
One of the strengths of the security model in Mac OS X (=Unix) is that nobody can install stuff at the system level without first getting administrator privileges. The clever part about this worm is that they tack it onto the regular installer script. Anyone installing iWork expects to be prompted for their administrative password during the installation. This allows the worm to do its dirty work.
The moral to the story is that you don't type in an administrative password without knowing what's going to be done with it. As usual, just use some common sense and you'll probably be fine.
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