Comments on: New Mac Trojan appears in pirated versions of Photoshop CS4 – 5,000 infected so far

By: G5

G5 — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:18:19 +0000

Hi there

I double clicked the crack file, but when it asked me the password, I knew that it’s not what I’m seeking and I quited immediately. (I gave no password)
could I be infected ??
can this file hurt even without getting my password ?
any idea ??
anyway here’s the file name on terrents sites :
“Adobe Photoshop CS4 11.0 Extended (Mac OS X) Includes Crack+serial (Works 100%).zip”

By: Diego

Diego — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:48:39 +0000

It’s a shame that so many people is misinformed, ratGT is the only one saying something informed, there will never be viruses on Macs or Linux, all because of how UNIX works, as he said, you have to be stupid enough to give the virus root privileges.

But I’ll have to correct myself then, there is stupid people, so there will be trojans on macs, but there will never be one on MY mac and I will never use an anti-whatever again

By: Trevor Ramage

Trevor Ramage — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 04:50:49 +0000

Does anyone know the name of the torrent??

By: attie

attie — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:57:11 +0000

Oh look, it’s another trojan for mac. Remember two years ago, when some trojan for mac surfaced, and hell failed to freeze over? It will fail to this time too.

By: mc

mc — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:29:24 +0000

Did you even read ?

if a user can connect to your computer then it can be used to infect other computers. So yes it is a trojan/virus. And i am sure they mean connect and use computer as a zombie box.

So people as i been saying for long time buy legit software and stop the crap. No OS is that safe period. You must use a anti-virus today.
Vista / Windows 7 ask the same permissions before going further so get you can off that horse.

By: imajoebob

imajoebob — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:56:07 +0000

First, and foremost (I’m going to shout) THIS IS NOT A VIRUS!! This is a Trojan Horse. It hides in another file and loads onto a SINGLE computer. It does not replicate, nor does it install itself on other computers. That replicating and spreading is why they are called viruses. This doesn’t qualify. It’s a trap that is sprung on naÃ¯ve (and in this case dishonest) users. It even requires the participation of the user.

But 5,000 infected pirate copies? And that doesn’t include the non-infected copies. No wonder Adobe has to charge 700 bucks a copy. There could be 3 or 4 pirates for every legit copy out there! Thank your friend with the stolen copy after you shelled out the big bucks for yours.

By: mac and apple sucks

mac and apple sucks — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:39:52 +0000

I think it’s great that so many people think that since they have Mac they cant get a virus, and i told them that they would get a virus or a trojan and when they do they will get screwed over. Go Trojan keep getting those asshole mac and apple lovers!!!!!!

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:48:48 +0000

Makes you almost want to go back to windows pirated software, at least I have a HUGE range of antivirus programs at my disposal

still, as previous post stated, seems sus, OSX is so secure, all of a sudden 2 new trojans in the space of a week found by the same ‘anti’virus company

By: gaz

gaz — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:35:39 +0000

Sorry but you can not stop a trojan installing on any platform. OS X just needs clamAV installed by default and set to scan files on download. the problem with OS X is the lack of AV software on most users macs not security

By: ratGT

ratGT — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:32:13 +0000

ARE YOU BEING SERIOUS!?!?!?
I’ve been reading all this BULLCRAP this past month from various sites and couldn’t resist writing (AT LAST!). How the heck can you compare these couple of so-called ‘Trojan/ Virus’ on Mac OS X with the Windows versions (a collection close to 200000) ?!?!? In Windows ANYTHING can be installed in the background without you even noticing or being asked about ANYTHING, while on Mac OS X, in order to for the Trojan/Virus to reach serious system-resources, it’ll have to ask for a Administrative password (for root privileges).

Now, if you are STUPID ENOUGH to enter the Admin password for a ‘cracking-utility’, then you REALLY deserve the scorching of your entire Hard Disk!…

In my almost 25 years of PC computing, I FINALLY GAINED BACK my computing life after I bought my first Mac and I’m NEVER going back to the dark-age of the Microsoft software for ANY Mac OS X Trojan or Virus…