A botnet is a group of computers that have been infected with automated software that is used to do nefarious things, like attack other computers or send spam. The owner of the computer doesn’t know their computer is participating in the botnet. Botnets are common on Windows based computers due to their ease of being infected by viruses.
Back in January, it was widely publicized that pirated versions of iWork ’09 had a trojan or a virus of some sort in it. Someone with bad intentions took the standard installer package for iWork, added their malware to it and released it on Bittorent. People who downloaded the Bittorent thought they were just getting a bootleg version of iWork. They also got an added surprise.
According to ZDNet, the purpose of this malware is to create a Mac botnet that is now being detected. This shouldn’t be anything to worry about for most Mac users who legally purchase software. It was more of a social engineering solution to get the malware on users computers buy hiding it in other software. It’s interesting to see that virus writers are making some attempt to target the Mac.
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