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Linc Davis Author

Level 10

209,649 points

MacDefender trojan

I've been following the discussions of this subject, but I have yet to succeed in downloading the trojan or in figuring out how it manages to get installed. I'd appreciate it if someone could send me a direct link. Please don't post the link here or anywhere else on this site. Send it to

macdefendertrojan@mailinator.net

and reply to this thread so I know It's there. Mailinator is a webmail server that automatically creates a throwaway account when it receives mail for any address in the domain. The received messages are automatically deleted after a few hours, so I need to know when to look. I also need the message subject so I can distinguish it from spam. Anyone can access the message. If you do, please use caution.

Instructions on what to Google haven't helped me. My setup is quite locked down and I block a lot of otherwise unwanted content. I need a direct URL.

If I get a positive response, I'll try to analyse the trojan in more detail than I've seen here, and post the results in this topic. Thanks.

Mac OS X (10.6.7)

Posted on May 1, 2011 6:36 PM

140 replies

U-96

Level 1

51 points

Dec 4, 2011 1:04 PM in response to thomas_r.

Haha, no problems here. Two reasons I responded.

Getting back into these communities/forums after a long, long time, I notice a drastic shift in the info being given, the help, and more importantly, the attitude of the "old timers". So I wanted to thank you for just being how I remember the forums being many years ago; just plain helpful and pleasant.

Secondly, I was fortunate enough to have never had this virus. Recently I found 2 very bizarre pref files in my User/Library/Preferences folder and was trying to search for them on here, see if anyone else had found them. Came across this thread and just wanted to give you kudos, that's all.