Updating my Mac Pro 13" last night with 10.11.1 and iTunes and Norton alerted me to OSX.Trojan.Gen which it had found in the update and deleted.
Is Apple aware of this problem and what are they doing about it?
MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10)
Antivirus apps not infrequently misidentify mac files.
Do not be concerned.
Also this
https://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2014-112615-1003-99
says:
OSX.Trojan.Gen is a generic detection for many individual but varied OS X Trojans for which specific definitions have not been created.
Not the work "generic'. That does not mean an it is bad/Trojan/virus
Get rid of Norton.
Norton Antivirus (made by Symantec) has a very long and illustrious reputation for mangling Mac OS X systems, sometimes to the point where a complete reinstall is necessary. Among other things, it installs kernel extensions which are known to cause kernel panics and system freezes; it contains known and documented bugs which can silently corrupt Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign files, destroy a user's ability to authenticate as an administrator, and (on PPC systems) can cause Classic to stop functioning; and Symantec has on at least two occasions now released flawed .dat file updates which erroneously report certain critical Mac OS X files as "viruses." (Deleting these "viruses" causes damage to the system that in some cases renders it unbootable.)
Norton has also been reported as damaging iPhone backups.
A major security flaw in Norton has also been noted:
Norton Removal Tool (Symantec Uninstaller):
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH103489&locale =en_US
Norton is Junk, incompetent Junk. Get rid of it.
norton for Mac is worse than any "mac virus" it pretends to find. read some posts on these forums if you don't agree.
If you want to slow your computer down and make it unusable install norton, otherwise it has nowhere near the finesse on Mac as it does in Windows. At this time it is writhe with problems and offers little to nothing in return.
Hey, Norton has upped its game, now it stops you from upgrading to a new system while messing with your existing system.
Such a deal.
Norton alerted me to OSX.Trojan.Gen in 10.11.1 update.
