Trojan horse Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Mozilla evangelist asks Apple, Google and Microsoft to stop installing unwanted plug-ins

by Sam Abuelsamid (Dec 1st, 2010)

Asa Dotzler has been promoting Mozilla Firefox for more than six years, and he's not happy about other software vendors installing unwanted plug-ins in his browser. Among the vendors getting under Dotzler's skin are Apple, Google and Microsoft, each of whom also happen to produce a competing web ...

Security alert: New Trojan Horse apps said to attack the Mac

by Steven Sande (Oct 27th, 2010)

Some security mavens have long theorized that as the Mac becomes more popular, we'd start to see malware that would start targeting the platform. Sure enough, this morning's crop of email blasts from PR firms included a few notices of trojans that are affecting Mac users. First, from SecureMac, ...

Intego reporting new OS X trojan horse in the wild

by Michael Rose (Oct 31st, 2007)

Ah, Halloween, when all the nasties come out. Just when you thought it was safe to go surfing again, Mac AV vendor Intego is reporting an OS X-specific Trojan horse showing up on some sites and forums. The bit of nasty, which Intego is calling OSX.RSPlug.A and other sources refer to as DNSchanger or ...

Possible Mac OS X Trojan Horse (mostly harmless)

by Damien Barrett (Feb 16th, 2006)

So I saw the news this morning about a possible first trojan horse for Mac OS X and decided I didn't really want to deal with the inevitable ensuing hysteria, flames, and crazy comments that would be sure to follow such a post. It was 8:00am and just way too early to deal. I mean, if I want to read ...

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