Secure Apple Macs Fall Prey To Linux DDoS Trojan

entropy13 · Oct 31, 2011

[H]@RD5TUFF said:
but everyone knows mac don't get virus's .. . .

Everyone except the heathens, the ignorant rabble, the enemies of the great Apple Triumphant, knows that.

pr0n Inspector · Oct 31, 2011

Everyone in the tech world knows Apple news generates controversy and subsequently many hits. That's why you see it everywhere, even on a PC elitist site like TPU.

Oh, don't mind me, I'm just talking to my shiny waterblock.

Mussels · Oct 31, 2011

pr0n Inspector said:
Everyone in the tech world knows Apple news generates controversy and subsequently many hits. That's why you see it everywhere, even on a PC elitist site like TPU.

Oh, don't mind me, I'm just talking to my shiny waterblock.

you realise there are macs out there that come with watercooling, yes?

pr0n Inspector · Oct 31, 2011

Mussels said:
you realise there are macs out there that come with watercooling, yes?

There are not. Apple is the only Macintosh computer manufacturer and none of their products are watercooled. Everything else is aftermarket.

If sarcasm was present it was not detected.

Widjaja · Oct 31, 2011

Eh....
I don't think this will viral dilemma cut sales at all.
Or even make it big enough to reach the public in a way that people will realize AppleMacs can get infections.

Just keep on making the Apple Mac systems looking fancy, make more images of sexy women using them, high profile celebs, have them in big budget movies used by heros and heroines while the bad guys use the PCs.

Win marketing tactic.

Mussels · Oct 31, 2011

pr0n Inspector said:
There are not. Apple is the only Macintosh computer manufacturer and none of their products are watercooled. Everything else is aftermarket.

If sarcasm was present it was not detected.

it was not sarcasm. i have seen stock apple mac computers come with watercooling.

they might not be doing it now on the x86 platform, but they sure did in the past.

qubit · Oct 31, 2011

Mussels said:
it was not sarcasm. i have seen stock apple mac computers come with watercooling.

they might not be doing it now on the x86 platform, but they sure did in the past.

It sounds like Apple may have been more techie oriented then, perhaps? It's a good feature, for sure.

pr0n Inspector · Nov 1, 2011

That was way back in the PPC era, in computer time this is longer than an eternity.

dorsetknob · Nov 1, 2011

"" Ello ""
Getting back to the core subject of apple and worms/trojens
Todays latest news
:laugh:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/31/mac_os_x_bitcoin_mining_trojan/

and you also might want to vist here
http://www.iantivirus.com/threats/
for a non - comprehensive list of nasties ( as time passes its going to get longer)
http://www.marketingvox.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/appleworm.gif

Mussels · Nov 1, 2011

ooooh thats nasty, a virus that makes them money instead of steals it.

m4gicfour · Nov 1, 2011

Potentially, it does both. It hijacks the mac to perform bitcoin mining, it searches the machine for bitcoin wallets and loots them, and it sends personal data (potentially including financial data such as credit card numbers) to remote servers.

It'd be a great way to make a quick buck if you had no morals.

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Secure Apple Macs Fall Prey To Linux DDoS Trojan

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