It was just a matter of time. While this particular Trojan may not be to bad the message is. Mac users are now a target.
Aaron Fischer | Homepage | 10.31.07 - 6:51 pm | #

Hi Alex,
Thanks for the link. The passage in the article about the trojan redirecting eBay and PayPal requests comes from Intego's report, which states: "When this new, malicious, DNS server is active, it hijacks some web requests, leading users to phishing web sites (for sites such as Ebay, PayPal and some banks), or simply to web pages displaying ads for other pornographic web sites."

Has Sunbelt seen something different?
Shaun Nichols | Homepage | 10.31.07 - 7:16 pm | #

Yeah, you're right. This is a relatively simple trojan which hijack's the machine's DNS. It's just not perhaps as dramatic as they're saying it is. Search engine results redirected, yes. But phishing, banking stuff, I doubt it.

However, we have not completely finished our analysis of this thing and we may have more to say.
Alex Eckelberry | 10.31.07 - 7:57 pm | #

Count me in as one of the Mac newbies, with Windows I knew what to look for and had software to monitor/detect such items.

With a Mac I'm useless, thank God for VLC Player!
Taylor | 11.01.07 - 7:32 am | #

you.... dont' ... neeed.... to... monitor/detect .. such .. items!!!

just don't believe in free pr0n, don't click every 'OK' box and don't enter your admin-password when you didn't initiate an install.. (even if it's to view free pr0n...)

when you buy a computer, don't get rid of your brain!
joe | 11.02.07 - 5:44 pm | #