I, too, stand corrected. Thanks Gordon. It's interesting that some of the most evil stuff I have dealt with, and this example too, comes from an unusual vector.
I managed to avoid the Sony BMG rootkit since I don't listen to music on my old PC (that Amerie disc is still on my shelf waiting to infect any Windows machine it runs on). But last year a video game called Perimeter installed an awful rootkit called SecuROM on that PC, and while trying to restore the system to a healthful state Windows was broken and at this point only launches in 256 colors with the vanilla VGA driver. I've been booting it into full color with kubuntu since, until I take an hour to swap the disk and install a proper OS. Sean. On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Rob Myers <r...@robmyers.org> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Gordon McMullan > <gordon.mcmul...@bbc.co.uk> wrote: >> >> It may not be *vast* but here's a report of a Mac OS X Trojan enrolling a >> Mac into a DDoS attack http://notahat.com/posts/28 it seems that he was >> originally infected by running a compromised installer infected with the >> OSX.iWorkServices.A trojan see: >> http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/osxiworksa.html > > Thanks. I must confess I was ignorant of that. :-( > > - Rob. > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
