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Trojan variation disables Mac malware protection
Researchers from F-Secure warn that a variant on a trojan discovered in September , which masquerades as an Adobe Flash Player installer, now exists and is capable of disabling OS X's built-in malware protection. OSX/Flashback.C disables the auto-updater component of XProtect, which means the system's built-in anti-malware application no longer looks for updates to its malware definitions. This ...
New Mac OS X malware disables Apple's malware protection
Security researchers from F-Secure have spotted a Mac OS X malware that disables Snow Leopard’s XProtect.plist antivirus signatures updates.
Mac Trojan attempts to disable OS X anti-malware safeguards
A Mac Trojan now in circulation attempts to disable OS X's built-in anti-malware protection, known as XProtect, according to security firm F-Secure. Identified with the label OSX/Flashback.C, the Trojan first decrypts the paths of XProtectUpdater files, then unloads the XProtectUpdater daemon. To finish the job, the malware then overwrites the XProtectUpdater files with a blank character....
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