Could Your Mac Become Part of a Botnet?

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A Mac botnet is probably something you never thought you would hear about. All you ever hear about is Windows computers being infected on a large scale. However, there are reportedly 20,000 computers that have been infected with Trojans that could lead to information being stolen from these Mac users. You might say that these people are getting what they deserve, as the malware comes bundled with pirated versions of iWork '09 and Photoshop CS4. The cracked iWork launches the Trojan when the program is launched while Photoshop installs a system back door with root privileges. Regardless of how the Trojans found their way onto the Macs, it shows that Mac users need to be careful of what they do in the future.

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14350 on April 18, 2009 06:12PM This just shows all the Mac lovers out there that even they aren't immune to virus's reply to this

gebraset on April 18, 2009 07:31PM While they aren't, the code is much more secure. But the user base is low, so there's not too much of a reason to target Mac users, especially with businesses mainly using Windows still. reply to this

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