All Mac OS X Versions Affected by OSX.RSPlug.A Trojan
Published by Sierra Monica B., on October 31st, 2007 9:34 pm, in the categories: News
The Intego security firm informs us about a new Trojan program discovered recently that targets all Mac OS X versions.
The program is specially designed to hijack web traffic and infects systems following to use these and send users to different phishing websites and display porn ads to generate advertising revenue.
The risk level of OSX.RSPlug.A Trojan is Critical and this is how it works.
It tries installs a video codec on your computer alleging that this will allow users to watch porn videos for free and after they click to view the content they are sent again to another page where they are advised to download a new version of this codec for playing the movies in QuickTime.
Worse than that, the users of Safari browser were checking the Safe Files After Downloading option but the disk image was automatically mounting and the installation was starting immediately after.
While the installation starts by the input of the administrator password this leads to root privileges gaining and is free to exploit the system.
For the moment security experts are working to find a solution.
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