Adware for OS X Discovered?
“A new adware program silently installs on Mac OS X systems and opens Web browser windows, according to F-Secure. The program, dubbed iAdware by the Finnish security company, is possibly the first example of adware for Macs. It is especially interesting since it doesn’t require administrative privileges to nestle itself on the computers, according to F-Secure.”
So F-Secure decided they would name it iAdware, how lame and unoriginal is that? Seriously, could have come up with something much better like.. FirstOSXAdwareFoundByFSecure.app or something…
“We won’t disclose the exact technique used here, it’s a feature not a bug, but let’s just say that installing a System Library shouldn’t be allowed without prompting the user,” according to the F-Secure blog on Thursday.”
Why wont F-Secure disclose the information so we can protect our super secure OS X machines? This just doesnt make sense. I thought F-Secure was a whitehat full-disclosure type of company??
“In theory, this program could be silently installed to your user account and hooked to each application you use,” according to the F-Secure blog. “This particular sample successfully launched the Mac’s Web browser when we used any of a number of applications.”
But in the next quote from F-Secure they give up the information. Nice! I bet allot of those Adware/Malware guys are off to write some Adware for OS X. We are all now doomed! How could of this happened Steve?
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