Your Mac - The Trojans are Coming

Seems as though a new Mac virus has been discovered. This new discovery has been named OSX/Crisis. I know the Mac users love to boast of a relatively 'virus free' environment, but as Mac users increase and the number of Mac computers in use increases, as I have predicted in the past, the viruses will not be far behind.

Let me give you a measure of relief here... This new virus has not been found 'in the wild' so to speak, but it is out there and it is a potential threat.

The threat installs itself silently (no user interaction required) and also does not need your user password to infect your Apple Mac. The backdoor component calls home to the IP address 176.58.100.37 every five minutes, awaiting instructions. This Trojan is like most: when run, it installs silently to create a backdoor. What makes this threat particularly worrying is that depending on whether or not it runs on a user account with Admin permissions, it will install different components, which use low-level system calls to hide their activities. ...this particular malware only affects OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and OS X 10.7 Lion. The latest threat further underlines the importance of protecting Macs against malware with an updated antivirus program as well as the latest security updates.

Emil Protalinski for Zero Day

Mac users need to start becoming more security-minded because it won't be long before virus makers find it more profitable to create them.

Intego Inc ISBX6-2U Internet Security Barrier X6 Mac Os X-10.5 Or Later is one of, if not, the first anti-malware software to update it's signatures to include OSX/Crisis.  Intego is the company that discovered OSX/Crisis.