[DM-MUG] Trojan horse warning

[Darcy Baston]

Legitimate in the social engineering for porn surfers sense. "Please give us your administrator's password so we can show you the same kind of content you can get elsewhere without having to give the keys to your operating system." And an antivirus software maker is making it popular. Huh. Money?

Are trojans by definition apps that you think will do one thing and do another? If so, all software is a trojan through bugs. But here's a situation I think is more entertaining: At the office today we were editing a text file hosted on a linux box (using samba) from WinXP machines, and the computers hosting WinXP rebooted anytime we tried File->Save As. Instant power off the moment we hit CTRL-S. Three different workstations gave the same behavior. How in the world does hardware reboot itself because you you tried to save a file? That's wackier than anything I've ever seen.


 
On Thursday, November 01, 2007, at 11:17AM, "CW Smith" <cwsmith7 at gmail.com> wrote:
>Looks like we might have a legitimate Trojan for Macs running Leopard.  
>Details on how to identify and remove the Trojan from your Mac, if  
>it's present, can be found at MacWorld.com:
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>http://www.macworld.com/2007/10/firstlooks/trojanhorse/index.php
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>Hope this is helpful.
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>Peace,
>CW
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