Rogue Mac Antivirus Malware

Ran across this malware site while searching for a Bleach Hollow logo t-shirt. As you can see, it pretends to scan my hard drive, "alerts" me that my computer is infected, and then prompts me to download a trojan titled "anti-malware.zip", ironically with a message saying that it has detected trojans on my machine. If I click on any of the supposed files on my hard drive that are "infected", the download prompt starts again.

Note that my Finder left-sidebar doesn't have the shortcuts shown here - this entire experience is within a Firefox window, and the attackers guessed at the most common folders that Mac users would have in their sidebar to make it particularly convincing.

Pretty convincing, and shows how good the bad guys are getting, and how Macs are becoming targets of these kinds of attacks more and more frequently.

More info here: http://www.snipe.net/2011/05/rogue-mac-antivirus/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• computers
• technology
• rogue antivirus
• rogue av
• mac
• apple
• malware
• computer security

[flirter007]

this happened to me... but it automatically downloaded it! what do i do

[snipeyhead]

@flirter007 Did you install it? If you didn't install it, you should be alright.

[tomsturge]

That's a lot more effort than they woulf put in for a Windows virus. Kinda jealous