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Is there built-in Antivirus software in Snow Leopard?
The Intego blog is reportingthat Snow Leopard appears to contain some sort of built-in antivirus protection. Check out the screenshot below which popped up when a user tried to open up a .dmg file infected with a DNS changer trojan horse. ZDNet speculates on the matter: It is not yet clear how Apple is handling […]
Continue reading...Report: Malware of the future will be OS independant
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
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The Washington Post reports: Security researchers increasingly are finding that sites designed to trick the visitor into installing malicious software will serve different malware depending on whether the visitor arrives at the page using a Microsoft Windows PC or a Mac. Trend Micro researcher Ivan Macalintal recently found a new variant of the dreaded DNS […]
Continue reading...Malware on the Mac: Caught on Tape [Video]
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Check out how these mofos attempt to spread a new RSplug Trojan horse to Mac users: via Sophos
Continue reading...Virus shuts down computers in Vancouver school for more than 3 weeks, Macs unaffected
Monday, February 2, 2009
A computer virus that recently swept through a Vancouver school district has rendered a large number of computers inoperable as IT staff continue to attempt to fix each infected computer individually. According to reports, There are more than 10,000 computers in the district, each of which had to be shut down and disconnected from the […]
Continue reading...New Trojan Horse targets iPhone users who use Windows
Thursday, September 18, 2008
From the iPod Observer: “A new spam e-mail aimed at Windows users who have an iPhone has surfaced. The spam, which purports to contain the most popular iPhone game in a attachment, actually contains a Trojan Horse Troj/Agent-HNY. The attached file, Penguin Panic.zip isn’t even executable on a Mac or an iPhone. Windows users who […]
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
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