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Mac OS X malware posing as fake video codec discovered
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I did not think this stuff would penetrate a mac.
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Article excerpt from zdnet.com — "Researchers from ParetoLogic are reporting on a newly discovered Mac OS X Malware variant posing as fake video ActiveX object found at a bogus Macintosh PortTube site. The use of fake video codecs is a social engineering tactic exclusively used by Malware targeting Windows, and seeing it used in a Mac OS X based Malware attack...

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