Crisis trojan attacks OSX and Windows

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• Aug 22, 2012

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“Crisis” malware targets Windows and OSX users

The latest malware trojan tricks users by spreading through virtual machines

 

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• Aug 22, 2012

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Why, oh why would OSX users be thinking of running an Adobe Flash installer?? Still, the time to start installing an AV for Mac is drawing near sadly.

 

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• Aug 22, 2012

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greg0205 said:

Why, oh why would OSX users be thinking of running an Adobe Flash installer??

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Hope springs eternal

Miff news though.

 

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• Aug 22, 2012

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The_Librarian said:

Hope springs eternal

Miff news though.

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Hahaaa

 

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• Aug 22, 2012

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Quite sneaky. It mounts your VMmare images and copies itself to it.

 

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• Aug 22, 2012

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I had in the last 2 weeks had two virus incidents. Will really need to look at a better antivirus than McAfee... Now this as well. Is it only for VMWare?

 

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• Aug 23, 2012

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It seems strange that anyone would create a virus to also target Windows Mobile. It would make more sense to include WP7 as a target. I'm wondering if the writer meant WP7 when writing this article.