The IT Nerd

If you’re an Apple fanboi, you have to wonder what is happening to the once seemingly invincible Mac operating system. A number of threats have appeared over the last year an a bit and now two more have now hit the streets:

On Tuesday, Paretologic warned about a porn site that was downloading malware that targets both the PC and the Mac. Mac users get redirected to the pagemac.php page, which downloads a QuickTime.dmg file, the blog post says.

Sophos explained in blog post on Thursday that visitors to the malicious porn site are told they have to download an ActiveX component to view the videos. Instead, a Trojan, dubbed OSX/Jahlavc, gets downloaded.

Okay, you have to surf to a porn site to get nailed by this. But that isn’t the point. The point is that the number of attacks that are out there for the Mac are growing. So you can expect more of this in the future, and they will become more sophisticated. It will only be a matter of time before Mac users are running anti-virus software just like the PC users that they love to make fun of.

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