Actually no user intervention is required for infection. Admin access will
allow the virus to infect more completely into the system, but it's
absolutely not required.
The bigger issue is that many (most?) Apple users think they are somehow
immune to viruses (a myth which Apple is happy to go along with). This is
untrue. For the most part they have been less prone to such problems
because Mac OS lacked market penetration, but that's changed and therefore
the reward for targeting OS X has also increased.
There are viruses for Macs, there will be more. You should look at
anti-virus software.
Microsoft finally responded positively to the risks faced by Windows users
with the free Security Essentials software, it would be excellent if Apple
would do the same for Mac users.
Most of the major anti-virus vendors have products for OS X now. Including
free ones.
For this specific threat you should make sure you've updated to the very
latest version of Java.
Dylan Reeve
http://dylanreeve.com/
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 3:54 AM, electropura212 <electropura212@gmail.com>wrote:
> Take it with a grain of salt. Note that the firm sounding the alarm about
> this makes anti-virus software for PCs. I'm sure he sees a pretty good
> untapped market in MacOSX. They also don't say how they derived the 600k
> figure.
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> Take it seriously. Don't click okay to give admin access to an installer
> if you don't know what you are installing (yes..this particular Trojan
> requires the end user to do that). No reason for panic. There are
> thousands of viruses out there for PCs, only a few for Mac..so far.
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> On Monday, April 9, 2012, jeffsengpiehl wrote:
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> http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2012/04/mac-os-x-report-virus-infects-600000-computers/
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