[LINK] Spyware trojan hitching ride on third-party Mac screensavers

[Stilgherrian]

On 02/06/2010, at 4:53 PM, Kim Holburn wrote:
> And they still have to get [Mac] users to install malware themselves.  They  
> are getting sneakier about it though.

This is now pretty much the case with Windows malware too. Most users have anti-virus software, and Vista and Windows 7 are more locked down that XP and its predecessors.

I was at Microsoft HQ in Redmond last week, speaking with a number of their security people. The figures they're seeing is that roughly 30% of infections are coming from drive-by downloads (things automatically installed via, say, rogue ActiveX controls embedded in a web page) and 70% are socially-engineered malware (i.e. requires user action to install).

Stil


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