MacCinema

Another Mac trojan. There’s a program for Macs called MacCinema Installer. The filename is: Flash.Player.Update.v9.19.dmg. Some web sites claim that you need to install it to watch their videos.

When you install it, it adds something to your Mac so that every 5 hours it will try to download malware. So if your Mac becomes infected with malware and you clean it, in 5 hours it’ll download another one. This is pretty common these days.

So if you come across MacCinema don’t install it. And if a web site tells you that you need to install something to watch their videos, don’t trust it (this applies to Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows).

2 April, 2009 | Filed Under Malware 

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2 Responses to “MacCinema”

  1. Pietro on July 6th, 2009 1:54 pm

    if you do get caught out by this trojan, here are some instructions on how to spot/disable/remove it.

    http://www.codez4mac.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=434454&sid=a919ec14f8bbb059894f3a4c866296cf

    easy to follow.

  2. enrique on July 6th, 2009 1:55 pm

    Thanks Pietro.

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