Comments on: Dangerous New Mac Spyware Making the Rounds

By: BBMACBB

BBMACBB — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 01:10:42 +0000

Great article. Mac user since 1982. I believe there is a new virus on the scene as of the last two days. Two perfectly good MacBookPro’s in my office, crashed at the same time and I got the question mark on restart. Inserting the system disk as boot disk and then running the disk utility showed that both macs had a new start up disk called HD5s1s. The HD5s1s was showing as a MS_DOS disk and was not visable on my desktop. I erased this disk and all seems fine, however, I have noticed that my key strokes are not always accurate, Mail and Safari have crashed often and I am expecting another visit. Still tracking it down as of this writing, I have some leads as both computers had just exchanged about ten files, AND both computers had visited a government law enforcement website. I will post when I find the file.

By: spy321

spy321 — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:25:23 +0000

More and more news regarding mac security appear these days. Seems no company is safe from viruses and spyware.

By: Lotty

Lotty — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:20:30 +0000

I use ProteMac NetMine (firewall). It monitors and controls all the Internet and network activity of your computer.
http://www.protemac.com/netmine/

By: Anthrium

Anthrium — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:18:28 +0000

It would be no surprise if the anti-virus software company mentioned had actually created the nasty little virus to drum-up business for themselves. It’s a dirty tactic which is sometimes used by shameless software authors out there to part fools from their cash.

By: Candys

Candys — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:17:52 +0000

thanks for the post. and i use Protemac NetMine for protection my Mac.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:29:57 +0000

From CNET's coverage, I think it was, it pops up the Mac OS X security framework's standard password entry dialog. In other words, no priveledge escalation, it requires the user's full knowledge to run as root.

By: CasperSky

CasperSky — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:24:15 +0000

Didn't Steve Jobs mentioned that Apple got malware from Flurry on their iPhone, iPad, Macs and what ever prototypes...at D8! See how simple Flurry can infilterate Apple with Malware that collect data from users without them knowing...

So Apple has malware under Steve's nose...and boy was he furious!

By: pk de cville

pk de cville — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:17:41 +0000

Who the hell are you talking to?

"but as always, I recommend sensible downloading and browsing practice before any other means of virus or malware protection."

This does not help the 75% of Mac users who have no idea what 'sensible' means. See people over 50, under 12, and the computerphobes.

Surely, you know a few.

By: KsbjA

KsbjA — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 08:15:06 +0000

I dare you to try one of these: http://7art-screensavers.com .

By: KsbjA

KsbjA — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 08:09:48 +0000

Just curious: How does it gain root access? AFAIK it's not exactly easy.