Peaches Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 New Variant of Mac Trojan Horse Jan 26, 2009 "A new report from Intego shows that the trojan discovered last week in pirated copies of Apple's iWork 09 has been revamped and repackaged into pirated copies of Adobe Photoshop CS4 for the Mac. The new trojan, dubbed OSX.Trojan.iServices.B, is found bundled with copies of Adobe Photoshop CS4 that are available for download from BitTorrent trackers and direct download warez sites. This time the actual installer for Photoshop is clean, however the trojan is found as a software cracking application that promises to generate activation codes for the program. The cracking program is run on the promise that it will allow Photoshop to be used and asks for the user's administrator password, launching a backdoor with root privileges. " Heise security for full details: http://www.heise-online.co.uk/security/New...e--/news/112490 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
iccaros Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 almost all pirated software contains Trojans.. This is not new and any one who uses pirated software deserves to get in troubleThis is not a OS security problem, the user installed it.. they only way to stop this is to not allow users to install software.. at all. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hitest Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 almost all pirated software contains Trojans.. This is not new and any one who uses pirated software deserves to get in troubleThis is not a OS security problem, the user installed it.. they only way to stop this is to not allow users to install software.. at all.Well-said iccaros. The only way to activate a trojan or malware as a user in OS X is to install the software. As long as you're not running in admin mode in Unix (which is a really stupid thing to do) you are for the most part safe in Unix/Linux/OS X. Running as a regular user you will be prompted for the root password to install software. So if you install software from trusted sources, keep your Unix system patched and up to date with the latest security fixes you are in good shape. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sceeter32 Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 (edited) Hello all I'm a new user in mac and should I create another account? Is that the right way to do it?Thanks Edited January 27, 2009 by sceeter32 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
isteve Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 Agree, but just to add even if you run as a administrator you will still get prompted to type your password to install. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
isteve Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 Hello all I'm a new user in mac and should I create another account? Is that the right way to do it?ThanksYes it's always good idea to do day to day task in a non-admin account. Also having multiple accounts will help if you ever need to do troubleshooting. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sceeter32 Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 ok thanks I will now create another account Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hitest Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 Having several accounts is also a great idea if you want to use multiple ipods on the same macbook. My wife and daughter are able to synchronize their two ipods on the same macbook. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
isteve Posted January 28, 2009 Report Share Posted January 28, 2009 You can use multiple ipods with the same itunes in the same account but you have to rename the ipod when you first set it up. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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