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Via boingboing, and mr_cleome, who was gracious enough to forward it to me.
quote:A new piece of malware is spreading, notable because it targets computers running Mac OS X, rather than Windows. Reports of the trojan "MAC Defender" (aka Mac Protector, aka Mac Security) first surfaced on May 2, but the malware has since morphed and proliferated.
The basics: it spreads as search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning, using popular search terms for prominent search engine results...
I thought this might be helpful if there are Mac users besides myself on the LMB. I saw this nasty crap show up out of nowhere on my computer a couple of days in a row, but I was able to shut it down and get some real anti-malware stuff installed without any damage being done.
[knock wood]
quote:...Apparently, "osama bin laden" is one of the popular search terms used to deploy. I just encountered a MAC Defender come-on page in Safari after clicking on a poisoned msnbc.com link via Twitter, hence the inspiration for this blog post...
Go figure...
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