People who contract this OS X trojan should use the OTHER types of Trojans so they don't propagate their "stupid" gene to their offspring.

People who contract this OS X trojan should use the OTHER types of Trojans so they don't propagate their "stupid" gene to their offspring.

I have seen countless mac users comment on Windows and its malware, yet when Apple starts getting targeted, then everyone becomes defensive and lays the blame on the user? I see.

Dudes, you are all idiots. As OSX becomes more and more popular it will become more and more attractive to folks who write malware and viruses.

Get off your high horses and stop acting like pompous asses.

Well if this article is right and the trojan installs itself into /Library/Internet Plug-ins/ then the user is also stupid for using an account enabled with ADMIN rights. Using my normal non-admin account I can't write into that folder. The correct thing to do is to have an admin account and a separate user account with normal privs and only use the latter. OSX handles this situation better than MS Windows because it prompts for an admin account name and password when asked to do privileged stuff (an instant alert if you needed one) and at the same time doesn't allow protected places to be written to by malware on the quiet.

Having said all that, every user has their own /Users/$USER/Library/Internet Plug-ins/ folder, owned by them that a trojan could slide into unnoticed. It wouldn't affect the whole system just the user, but then you only really care about your own files, emails, addressbook, etc anyway. So that's still pretty nasty.

For all those people dismissing this because the user has to accept something first, wake up and smell the coffee. That's how the majority of Windows malware gets to install itself. The user is always the weak link in the chain and always will be.

Dudes, you are all idiots. As OSX becomes more and more popular it will become more and more attractive to folks who write malware and viruses.

Even more importantly, as OS X becomes more and more popular, there are going to be more of what they call here the 'stupid PC user' who will install such things without thinking.

Then again, maybe if Apple still didn't turn on the "Open safe files by default" option in Safari, there'd be less issue there.

Well if this article is right and the trojan installs itself into /Library/Internet Plug-ins/ then the user is also stupid for using an account enabled with ADMIN rights.

Yeah, why would a user do that?

Oh, right, that's how Apple sets up the computers by default.

This isn't new. PornTube has been trying this for ages. A friend told me.

Okay, my "idiot" comment was unnecessary. I apologize for that. Bad day for me does not give privilege for rudeness.

I stand by the rest of the statement.

When have trojans and viruses not been spread by idiots? Vigilant people don't spread PC viruses either. But get enough idiots together (teens using your parents computer without their permission, I'm looking in your direction) and you can have a problem.

The fact that the default account that is created is an admin account and Apple doesn't encourage a non-admin account at startup means most users just run with that single account and don't even think about it. People complain that Windows installs with security holes open that a user needs to go close down to be safe, but Apple encourages newbies to run as admin users!!

also windoze users can set up their system to have to type the admin password when installing.....the case is another:
installing a trojan on whichever system after visiting a p*** site and not being careful enough depends on the user not the system!

What I really doubt, is the existance of the " trojan" I believe the antivir companies hype up the situation to sell their products which unfortunately behave as viruses themselves quite often.

the cure is : do not visit risky sites:

e-commerce sites where prices for electronix are less than anywhere else on this planet
p*** sites
dating sites
e-gold/ e-money sites like e-bullion-painpal-e-gold-e-money-e-cash-etc.....

dont register on suspicious sites! make a whois of sites, check the https !!!

if you do this youre liable to be safe for a while :-)


99% of the problems with computers sit between mouse and monitor! believing the hype of e-commerce sites " everythings cheaper on the indernett" "bargain hunting on the indernett is safe"

ITS NOT !!!

also windoze users can set up their system to have to type the admin password when installing.....the case is another:
installing a trojan on whichever system after visiting a p*** site and not being careful enough depends on the user not the system!

What I really doubt, is the existance of the " trojan" I believe the antivir companies hype up the situation to sell their products which unfortunately behave as viruses themselves quite often.

the cure is : do not visit risky sites:

e-commerce sites where prices for electronix are less than anywhere else on this planet
p*** sites
dating sites
e-gold/ e-money sites like e-bullion-painpal-e-gold-e-money-e-cash-etc.....

dont register on suspicious sites! make a whois of sites, check the https !!!

if you do this youre liable to be safe for a while :-)


99% of the problems with computers sit between mouse and monitor! believing the hype of e-commerce sites " everythings cheaper on the indernett" "bargain hunting on the indernett is safe"

ITS NOT !!!