Mac Is No Longer Secure

A trojan is now attacking Apple Mac Computers. This virus is spreading via illegal software iWorks dan becoming limelight as this is the first virus attacking OS X platform, operating system running for Mac. This far, Mac is supposed to be relatively secure from virus attack. But this is more caused by the number of its users are not as much as Windows.

This Mac virus, which has been written in RealBasic, is amateur. The comments in its code's lines explain that the aim of this virus is to create the first Mac OS botnet. This virus is also trying to steal email address, record key-typing and copy itself into onstalled hard-disk.

According to some sources, the virus, which is also called as Tored, is a worm. However some say it as a trojan. The fact is that it is a worm as well as a trojan, or at least trying to become either both. The email stealing action and replication into insatalled hard drive is are like Conficker. But SMTP server which is tried by this virus to send itself is currently not active. Thuis Tored is limited to the trojan-like-attack.

Tored virus is perhaps the first email trojan attacking Mac. Some years ago there were Apple attacking trojans, but this seemingly is the first virus acting as a worm. Eventhough it is not dangerous, its behaviours describe a kind of new attack on Mac platform.

Graham Cluley, a Senior Technology Consultant at Sophos said, many Mac users think that the worm dissemination is not involving man's interfere. That is true that there are some Windows worm like that such as Sasser and Code Red, but many of malwares in which we suppose as worm such as The Love Bug, Anna Kournikova, etc, need man's interfere and quickly spread over.

Probably the most interesting part of this newly virus is the message sending, For Mac OS X: (If you are not on Mac please transfer this email to a Mac and sorry for our fault :)".

The good news is, according to Cluley, Tored is not a serious treat, and maybe no one experiences it. The more serious attack to Mac users is a trojan which is put on websites offering interesting downloads.

On January, trojan hiding in the copy of iWork '09 and Adobe CS4 for Mac infected about 5000 computers. Although it couldn't spread independently, this trojan has been thought as the first Mac botnet