TENCENT QQ Trojan on Mac

Yet another trojan panic bites the dust. Do you really think a trojan can invade MacOS, control the actions of multiple web browsers, survive a format and be the first of it's kind, and be found in a Chinese Dorm? Call CNN!

I read the white page document that was referenced earlier. 2 thirds of it were the history of Virus' on the Mac, like any of that matters at all. There were several examples and some recommendations of possible changes, but no meat.

Where's the beef. No OS is perfect, but it's going to take more than 1 person and a "knowledgeable" expert friend to convince me that I've got something to worry about. Maybe somebody with a security credential and experience working with network security or a teenage programmer in India 🙂

If you download and install a program that is crap, it's still crap, not a virus or trojan. If you believe a web page has scanned your Mac and found problems you should just move on. If your ISP controls your browsing, it's still not a Trojan or Virus - at best it's Malware.

Like I replied before my post was removed. I posted late and forgot. That's it, this thread bores me.


Ray

The thread opener's problem is probably not caused by our country's Great Firewall.
just a side-effect of some Windows-based virus.

Message was edited by: yksoft1

What you have seen may be a type of so-called "ARP viruses". They use ARP spoofing attack method to hijack any HTTP packets in the LAN its host computer on, to insert malware code (usually some Javascript code that use the bugs in Windows, Internet Explorer and some third-party ActiveX) to download and run trojan horse software, including the ARP virus itself, on Windows machines. They are usually harmless to Mac OS X machines, except they may associate a lot of memory thus slow down/crash the system.
你看到的是一种“ARP病毒”。它们使用ARP攻击，劫持它所在的计算机所在的局域网中所有的HTTP数据包，插入恶意代码（通常是一串利用 Windows、IE或者某些第三方ActiveX控件漏洞的JavaScript），以便下载和运行恶意软件（包括该病毒自己）。它们对于Mac OS X通常无害，但是它们可能需要分配大量的内存空间，使系统运行减慢甚至出错。

This type of virus has been very widespread in many Chinese universities these days.
On Windows, QQ has been identified by many users as "流氓软件"(rough translated as "rogue software"). But most Chinese Internet users (including me) depend on it very much.
QQ for Mac is still in alpha and very limited now.