Researchers Find Signs of Zombie Macs

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Researchers Find Signs of Zombie Macs

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Zombie Macs? iTune enabled botnets launching denial-of-service attacks? Say it isn’t so!

Malware hunters at Symantec have discovered a direct link between a malicious file embedded in pirated copies of Apple’s iWork 09 software and what appears to be the first Mac OS X botnet launching denial-of-service attacks.

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Publish Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:04:00 CDT
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Macs, safer than your average p....oh, wait not any more.
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buzzmong wrote:Macs, safer than your average p....oh, wait not any more.
:above: :lol:
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buzzmong wrote:Macs, safer than your average p....oh, wait not any more.
:lol: :above:

I can see a mactard arguing that macs only get viruses if you don't worship at the alter of jobs and buy all your software.
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Twitter was amusing at the weekend; lots of Mac users seem to think they're immune to Cross-Site Scripting.
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some chap in the [H] Comments thread wrote:PC: Hi i'm a Fista PC and it took them the longest to hack me.
MAC: Bbbrrraaaaiiiinnnnssss
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:lol:
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Finally it is revealed! Steve Jobs' plan to make everybody buy a mac product, and then turn them into his mindless zombie slaves.
But you'll never get me Jobs, NEVAR!

Alternatively they'll all secretly turn into robots and enslave humanity. But I suppose that's what they're already doing.
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Mr. Johnson wrote:Finally it is revealed! Steve Jobs' plan to make everybody buy a mac product, and then turn them into his mindless zombie slaves.
But you'll never get me Jobs, NEVAR!

Alternatively they'll all secretly turn into robots and enslave humanity. But I suppose that's what they're already doing.
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Nice bit of hating. Although it's undoubted that many Mac users are fucking idiots.

I did this today:
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/49544488@N00/3450457583/" title="IMG_0835 by spoodie, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3554/345 ... 8555c3.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="IMG_0835"></a>
Immediately reducing it's cool by a factor of infinity. Not really had much of a chance to test the performance yet.

BTW: What's a good free AV client that's not AVG?
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spoodie wrote:Nice bit of hating. Although it's undoubted that many Mac users are fucking idiots.

BTW: What's a good free AV client that's not AVG?
I don't hate macs, I just don't rate them, and the majority of the users are wankers. :P

I've heard Avast mostly recently for free AV
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Dr. kitteny berk wrote:I don't hate macs, I just don't rate them, and the majority of the users are wankers. :P

I've heard Avast mostly recently for free AV
Well, I for one certainly can't claim not to be a wanker.

And thanks, I'll try Avast. The XP instance shouldn't be going near any dodgy sites, etc. so a freebie is enough.
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I use Avira Free, it's much better at actually finding nasties, but there is the downside of a daily pop-up ad when it updates. I can live with that, but it might annoy you more.
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I don't hate macs either, I just don't like that they went from 'decent, stable computers for designers' to 'shiny expensive hype toys for easily distracted kids'
The hating will no doubt die down once the hype stops.
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deject wrote:I use Avira Free, it's much better at actually finding nasties, but there is the downside of a daily pop-up ad when it updates. I can live with that, but it might annoy you more.
I use that too, doesn't seem to affect performance at all either which I like.

There's ways to get rid of that pop up advert: http://www.wikihow.com/Remove-the-Popup ... ra-Antivir

If you do that and then also set the updates to invisible in the scheduler then you won't even know it's updating any more.
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