To all you idiots who think Macs are more secure, I snowballed elephant ***!

[bose301s 5,000+ posts]

Wrong!!

Evidence suggests first zombie Mac botnet is active

If you let yourself get tempted into installing the pirated versions of iWork or Photoshop CS4 that circulated on Bit Torrent earlier this year, you may have unwittingly turned your Mac into a zombie. Security researchers for Symantec have turned up evidence that these zombie machines are being used to create a Mac-based botnet.
Botnets are used to perform DDoS attacks on systems, gather sensitive personal information, and send out a majority of the spam that clogs up the 'Net. While commonly made out of infected Windows computers, this is the first known attempt to create one from Macs.

The two variants of the iServices trojan, OSX.Trojan.iServices.A and OSX.Trojan.iServices.B, have been implicated in at least one DDoS attack. According to researchers Mario Ballano Barcena and Alfredo Pesoli, the malware has peer-to-peer communication, remote start-up, and encryption capabilities.

"The code indicates that, wherever possible, the author tried to use the most flexible and extendible approach when creating it—and therefore we would not be surprised to see a new, modified variant in the near future," according to their report. They also noted that the person who activated the botnet is not the same as the original author of the malware code.

After the trojans were reported in January, most anti-virus software was updated to remove the payloads associated with the iServices trojans. Removing the directories /System/Library/StartupItems/DivX and/or /System/Library/StartupItems/iWorkServices should help, but that doesn't rule out other remnants getting left behind—if you suspect you were infected with either of these trojans, you may want to look into AV software. We'll also again repeat our favored refrain of "Steer clear of pirated software and sketchy files from website or torrents," which should help you avoid infection in the first place.

While Mac OS X doesn't suffer from the sheer amount of malware that Windows does, the creation of this botnet should serve as a warning that security through obscurity isn't a sound security policy—and Macs are far from being obscure any more.

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[Twistid 5,000+ posts]

I don't care.

x2

 

[Andrizzle 10+ year member]

oh noez, now teh mac users can't check their myspaces @ starbucks!!!!11!one!1!shift!11!!!

 

[Varinabassing 10+ year member]

Hey i got a mac and its awesome lol but if you try and get shit for free you deserve what you get even on a mac i big balling wit the 24in big daddy mac lol virus free too

 

[bunkerking09 10+ year member]

i'm posting from a mac //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

 

[LoggedOut 10+ year member]

oh my god ONE virus for mac, whic ou can only get through pirated software that everyone already has....oooohhhhh so insecure

 

[dleccord 5,000+ posts]

macs can **** it.

 

[LoggedOut 10+ year member]

"hey bill can you help me program my zune?....oh wait i have an IPOD LIKE THE REST OF THE WORLD"

 

[CrispedUp 10+ year member]

Are you so butthurt that you had to make a thread about it?

 

[bose301s 5,000+ posts]

oh my god ONE virus for mac, whic ou can only get through pirated software that everyone already has....oooohhhhh so insecure

Guess how people get viruses on PCs, doing stupid shit just like that. Also, guess which platform is easier to hack, Macs, guess which computer hackers prefer to hack, again Macs. They have so many more holes in their OS than windows that it isn't even funny, it's just that with 5% or less market share Macs are so insignificant that they don't even warrant bothering with.

 

[AVSTANG02]

What's the link to this?

Technically MACs are more secure from malware and viruses than Windows because of the lack of interest in creating viruses for Macs..

 

[DidUHearThat? 10+ year member]

Re: To all you idiots who think Macs are more secure
Wrong!!

Evidence suggests first zombie Mac botnet is active

Your own posts proves you're wrong. How many viruses/bots/etc have plauged windows systems for almost 20 years?

But WTF would a Bose owner know? No highs, no lows, it just blows? It must be Bose.

Is that *** on your face?

 

[bose301s 5,000+ posts]

What's the link to this?
Technically MACs are more secure from malware and viruses than Windows because of the lack of interest in creating viruses for Macs..

Forgot link in first post.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/04/evidence-suggests-first-zombie-mac-botnet-is-active.ars

 

[AVSTANG02]

Thanks for the link.

Every year their is a contest to hack into a MAC and every year they succeed thanks to holes in the Safari browser..

 

[Scoobydoo 5,000+ posts]

macs are gay