This might answer the question of what it does: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/23/mac_trojan/
----------------------------------------------- www.manorparksurgery.com www.thebrownstuff.blogspot.com 2009/2/4 Jason Davies <[email protected]> > > tcrooks wrote on 4/2/09 at 08:44 > > > > >The usual tosh from people in the computer security business keen to > >sell product and services into the Mac segment. > > But I'm not sure it was 'the usual tosh'. He said that now we > have a trojan and a route for it, there is a group of Mac users > whose machines are not free of viruses. That was quite accurate. > I suspect it was spot on, I seem to remember having skimmed it > that he said this was a small but genuine change in the > situation, and that is accurate. There IS a group of Mac users > whose machines have a Trojan now which wil only disappear if > they do a clean install or run a virus-check. > > > >This doesn't mean that Mac users shouldn't be vigilant but the time > >still hasn't come to load up your OS X system with anti-malware > >software that dims your lights, slows down your system and generally > >gets in the way of enjoying your OS X experience. > > I think it's important to remember that there are always new > people coming into using macs who don't quite know the > situation. I agree that we should not be running constant > checkers but it's worth mentioning free options like ClamAV. > It's probably worth running this occasionally whatever your > usage eg in case you pass on a Word virus. It also raises the > possibility that if someone posts to the list about problems, we > should wonder whether they have this Trojan (they may not > volunteer info about whether they illegally download software). > > Does anyone know what this Trojan actually does? > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
