And another link: http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/01/03/trojan.removal.tool/
----------------------------------------------- www.manorparksurgery.com www.thebrownstuff.blogspot.com 2009/2/4 Russell Brown <[email protected]> > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
