Friday, May 27, 2011

New Mac scareware variant installs without password

Hours after releasing the article: 5 ways to stay safe from fake anti-virus malware attack on Mac OS X, there shows up a new scareware variant that installs without password.
This scareware variant downloads directly to the applications folder, which during installation will not require admin credentials. Any application being installed outside of Applications folder will require admin credentials to install.
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Source: theregister.co.uk

2 comments:

  1. what is the solution for this or how to prevent this from happning..... will there be any warning or change in the working of the system ???

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  2. You can find the details of it in the links i have provided.

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