January 23, 2009 by James Oliver
Security software provider, Intego, have this week claimed to have discovered Trojan software for Mac OS X. The Trojan was found on a pirated copy of iWork 09, it installs itself along with iWork and connects to a remote server potentially allowing the malware creator to steal information and/or control the computer remotely. According to Intego around 20,000 people have downloaded the Trojan so far.
Compared to Windows that’s really not that much – the downandup worm for instance, is estimated to have infected around 9 million PCs so far. However, any discovery like this for Macs is likely to be seen as a big deal, mainly due to the fact that for years Apple have been marketing the Mac as virus free, not safe in comparison or very secure but virus free!
They continue to use this as one of the cornerstones of their marketing, despite growing evidence to the contrary like this iWork Trojan.
Lately there has been some suggestion that even elements within Apple itself would like the comapny to be more up front about the risk to their systems. The clearest example of this was late last year when a section appeared on Apple’s own support website suggesting that Mac users purchase not one but two virus protection programmes, just to be sure. The section was quickly removed and denounced as inaccurate.
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