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Testudo, Apple changed this at least a billion years ago, so this just proves you know s*** about Apple and Macs...please go back to your Dell, dude.

Guess I must have an old version of Safari and OS X (although it looks suspiciously like 3.1 and 10.5.5).

I just create a new account on my mac, logged in, opened safari, and, yep, the setting was checked.

And, even if it had been changed (oh, look, you all were wrong, because it hasn't), there's still a mass of users from earlier bygone days who may still have it checked (you know, the same users who could be fooled into launching some installer from a web site).

First, go to a disgusting p*** site, then click on the obvious fake error message, then download a weird sounding file. Go look for the file and then launch it, wait for it to mount, then execute the strange looking script or app file. Oh look, you need to authenticate. Ahh, give the nice little program your password. PLEASE! Get a life people!

I run a small network in Ecuador, viruses on USB drives from internet cafes are rampant, I use my own mac with ClamAV to scan suspect drives for my users knowing I'm immune. Then I let them connect them and scan them with TrendMicro. How is THAT for an antivirus.

"I fear they may be the ones creating these 'socially engineered trojans' and passing them to p*** sites so that the users buy their software."

That's a huge claim to make, especially without anything close to proof. Imagine if the company knew about this and didn't disclose it? Would that be better?

You need to dial back your conspiranioa a notch or so.

I actually saw this one just yesterday. But it wasn't in the context of a p*** site. I had done a Google search to find a fuse diagram for a Toyota Camry. Several of the hits that looked like GREAT matches for my search query ended up resolving to the .pl domain, and tried to indicate that I needed to play a video but didn't have ActiveX installed...would I like to install it. I smelled a rat and closed the browser...but I can see people falling for it.

I ran into this two days ago, and it was not on a p*** site. It was packaged with plain old shareware. I immediately recognized it was a problem, but not before it had already installed itself. I immediately pulled the machine off the network, and wiped the start-up drive (which fortunately was a test drive with only a base installation on it). I am hoping that it isn't possible that this critter could have copied itself in those few second before I noticed what was going on to other external and network drives. In the meantime, I'm scanning with ClamXAV. However, I can find no documentation as to whether ClamX recognizes this trojan. Does anyone know? Does anyone know what to look for to make sure it is gone?

This is not an issue.

There are reports today that support this view. This thing must be manually installed by someone who has access to the computer.

Move on. Nothing to see here.