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Originally Posted by Bryan Talbot  And who would be STUPID enough to do that???
Jesus, go rent something. |
No one -- you'd
like to think.
But lots of PC users -- the overwhelming majority of whom not only
know there are thousands of malwares, viruses, and trojans out there ready to infect them and that a
very common infection vector is
porn -- go ahead and succumb to these "socially engineered" trojans, anyway, downloading them straight onto their machines.
And a
lot of Mac users have heretofore had the firm conviction that they were
immune to malware and trojans --
immune being a word I've read used over and over again.
Now -- while this trojan uses social engineering and
not an exploitable flaw in the Mac's defenses
and the user has to go through a number of extra steps in order to infect himself -- the speed with which Apple's new baby the iPhone was hacked should serve as a wake up call that increasing market share will likely be sending more black hat bad guys gunning for the Mac.