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Cyber-crooks eye Apple Macs with fake anti-malware
NEW YORK | Tue May 17, 2011 1:39pm EDT
(Reuters) - The days when Mac users need not worry about their computers getting infected with malicious software may be coming to an end.
READ MORE: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/17/us-apple-malware-idUSTRE74G60M20110517
Rockmastermike
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there have been mac virii since the 80s. old news.
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Mac Malware Brouhaha: Are Apple Users No Longer Safe?
By Jeff Bertolucci, PCWorld May 18, 2011 3:05 PM
...ZDNet blogger Ed Bott reported Wednesday that a malicious app called MAC Defender (among various aliases) is afflicting more Mac users than previously thought.
READ MORE: http://www.pcworld.com/article/228183/mac_malware_brouhaha_are_apple_users_no_longer_safe.html
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Coming soon to a Mac near you: serious malware
By Ed Bott - zdnet.com
Last week I showed you how malware authors have begun using social engineering to target Google Chrome, with convincing replicas of Chrome’s bright-red security screens to trick victims into installing a package of malware.
Now I am seeing evidence that the next target is OS X. That’s potentially very bad news for Mac owners who have abandoned their PCs in the belief that switching to a Mac somehow immunizes them from malware...
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/coming-soon-to-a-mac-near-you-serious-malware/3212?tag=nl.e589
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Anyone want this "bonerporn.dmg" file that I found on the internet?
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Apple Issues Advisory For Mac Defender Phishing Attack
By Stefanie Hoffman, CRN
May 25, 2011 6:29 PM ET
In what has been up until now unchartered territory, Apple (NSDQ:AAPL) admitted that the recent onslaught of MacDefender malware is a threat to its Mac OS X platform and offered a temporary workaround to mitigate the problem.
Apple issued an advisory Tuesday, warning users about a new strain of Mac Defender malware...
APPLE ADVISORY: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4650
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