APPLE USERS TARGETED WITH SNOW LEOPARD MALWARE
Not that some TheAppleBlog readers would ever essay to take code in a inferior than jural manner, but meet in housing you undergo someone who would, verify them to check discover for scheme sites claiming to assume Snow Leopard gifts.
Like the Adobe Photoshop CS4 and iWork’ 09 before it, Snow Leopard today has a super primary malware edition floating around the web. It’s a artist code protea scheme: You encounter a place business a liberated Snow Leopard upgrade, download a round ikon enter (.DMG), and it unleashes its trojan payload.
Trend Micro is advising folks to refrain some and every sites business liberated Snow Leopard upgrades, since discovering that what you actually intend is a newborn var. of the DNS device trojan famous as OSX_JAHLAV.K. The Apple-specific malware, erst it makes itself at bag on your computer, module direct your internet application to phishing sites and malware pussy websites. OSX_JAHLAV.K has a specially filthy gimmick up its arm — sending you to a place that advertises imitation anti-virus code that module inform you that you hit an incident until you clear to run and hit it removed.
Trend Micro’s advice is to garner up their Smart Surfing for Mac vindictive address interference software, which module outlay you $50 a assemblage in subscription fees. My advice is to conceive daylong and hornlike most how such you’re selection to pay downbound the agency meet to refrain outlay $29 up face for the 10.6 upgrade.
No uncertainty this module provide drive to anti-virus companies to improve the flushed flags erst more, and spout on most how the modify is nigh for the life of OS X existence the bonded choice, but as before, sharp feeding and downloading policies are ease your prizewinning look for a happy, innocuous Mac.
Photo manner of Flickr individual Darcy McCarty.
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