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Latest Mac OS X Trojan Might Be Sign of Things to Come

DaniWeb IT Discussion Community (Featured Entries)  Mon, 06/30/2008 - 20:00

It’s been more than 10 days since the latest AppleScript.THT Trojan horse for Mac OS X reared its ugly head, yet still no word or fix from Apple.

The new threat to versions 10.4 and 10.5 is classified as critical by the SecureMac security site, exploits a hole in the Apple Remote Desktop Agent to completely overtake an infected Mac and delete files and wreak other kinds of havoc.

This threat, discovered on June 19, was made public on the SecureMac site a week ago today. There have been a few rumblings on Apple’s discussion forums, but to date, no official advice from the company.

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