Wild Mac OSX Virus

[Dick H Box]

From a post in another forum:

OSX/Jahlav-C Trojan
This trojan is apparently out in the wild and is a real attack on OS X in the wild. It seems to require some social engineering and requires the user to install media codecs to view "ActiveX", which any reasonably technical user will understand is not possible on OS X.

http://www.sophos.com/blogs/sophoslabs/v/post/4811

[Will Konsider]

Stealing my posts are you now?!!!!

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I'm totally kidding Dick, you're cool

There are a handful of MacOS X trojans in the wild. At this point I'm not worried about them. I do run AV software - ClamXav which so far has discovered nothing but Windows malware.

in fact the first OS X "trojan" was "discovered" by an AV company (Intego) back in 2004:

Security experts on Friday slammed security firm Intego for exaggerating the threat of what the company identified as the first Trojan for Mac OS X.

On Thursday, Intego issued a press release saying it had found OS X's first Trojan Horse, a piece of malware called MP3Concept or MP3Virus.Gen that appears to be an MP3 file. If double-clicked and launched in the Finder, the Trojan accesses certain system files, the company claimed.

While Intego said the Trojan was benign, it said future versions could be authored to delete files or hijack infected machines. In the release, and in subsequent telephone interviews, Intego was vague about the purported Trojan's workings and its origins.

On Friday, Mac programmers and security experts accused the company of exaggerating the threat to sell its security software.

"They gave the impression that this is a threat, but it isn't," said Dave Schroeder, a systems engineer with the University of Wisconsin. "It is a benign proof of concept that was posted to a newsgroup. It isn't in the wild, and can't be spread in the wild. It's a non-issue."

http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mac/news/2004/04/63000

Are viruses, trojans and other malware possible on OS X? The answer is of course yes and there will probably be an increase in the future. But I'd just as soon not deal with the tens of thousands (or is it up in the hundreds of thousand range?) of Windows viruses, worms, adware, spyware and assorted malware. And to top it off, I'd prefer not to use one of the most annoying OS's to use i.e. Windows (This is strictly my personal view and not meant as a dig at people who prefer Windows.)

Use the OS which works best for you!