New MacOS X trojan alert
Well, security through less popular appeal doesn’t seem to be working. The dudes at Ambrosia software has posted a notice on their site about a piece of code that is a trojan horse that will mess with your Mac. That’s right. A Macintosh! Beware of the coming doom.
A file called “latestpics.tgz” was posted on a Mac rumors web site http://www.macrumors.com/ , claiming to be pictures of “MacOS X Leopard” (an upcoming version of MacOS X, aka “MacOS X 10.5”). It is actually a Trojan (or arguably, a very non-virulent virus). We’ll call it “Oompa-Loompa” (aka “OSX/Oomp-A”) for reasons that will become obvious.
If you are a Mac addict and need some protection from the black hats try clamXav, a freeware virus scanner for OS X.
