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August 11, 2009 1:10 PM PDT

Mac Trojan appears as QuickTime update on malicious Web sites

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TrendMicro is reporting that a Trojan targeting Mac users, known as OSX/Jahlav-D, is appearing as a QuickTime plug-in update called MacCinema Installer.

This Trojan is a DNS Changer Trojan, similar to the OSX/Jahlav-C Trojan that was linked to several malicious sites in June and profiled here.

TrendMicro reports:

"It arrives as a .DMG file that contains an installer package. The said installer package contains component files and malicious scripts. These malicious scripts are detected by Trend Micro as UNIX_JAHLAV.D."
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    by lkrupp August 11, 2009 2:49 PM PDT
    From the MacNN article...

    "To avoid infection, users are advised to avoid downloading or installing Mac software updates from sources other than Apple."

    Duh! Some people will click on anything I guess ti get their porn.
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    by macdad614 August 12, 2009 5:14 AM PDT
    Will a Mac, running under Windoz, automatically download updates - as it does on a PC - to be installed at a later time?
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