[Infowarrior] - fwd: Critical security risk posed by new 'Boonana' Trojan horse for OS X

[Richard Forno]

I don't see it as a "critical" problem for Mac folks --- unless a person is stupid enough to type in their password because omething out of the blue wants to be installed, in which case they deserve what they get.  :)     Just another social enginering vector.   --rick

On Oct 27, 2010, at 21:52 PM, Joe Cychosz wrote:

> Hi Richard,
> 
> Here's one probably of interest to the group:
> 
> http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20020892-263.html
> 
> A new Trojan horse malware that affects Mac  OS X has been uncovered by
> Macintosh Security site SecureMac. The Trojan is called
> "trojan.osx.boonana.a" and is being disguised as a video and distributed
> through social-networking sites like Facebook.
> 
> Cheers,
> Joe
>