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Archive for January 22nd, 2009

Pirated iWork ’09 installer may contain trojan horse

Rob Griffiths
Macworld.com

Intego, makers of VirusBarrier and other security software for the Macintosh, issued a security alert for Mac users on Thursday, advising them about the existence of a new Trojan Horse, which they’ve named OSX.Trojan.iServices.A. This new Trojan Horse can be found in pirated copies of Apple’s iWork ‘09 application suite, which has been downloaded over 20,000 times, according to Intego’s numbers.

http://www.macworld.com/article/138380/iworktrojan.html

Keep the latest worm infestation off your PC

By Woody Leonhard

It’s been a hellacious week for security admins all over the world: the polymorphic worm known as Downadup, Conficker, and Kido has infected millions of computers.
http://windowssecrets.com/2009/01/22/02-Keep-the-latest-worm-infestation-off-your-PC