Could Your Mac Become Part of a Botnet?

CheeseMan42 - April 18, 2009 08:38AM in Bugs / Virus

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.