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Title: Beware of supermodel Irina Shayk bearing Malware!
Post by: gunug on March 22, 2012, 08:04:33 AM

I will admit that I've never heard of Irina Shayk but apparently she's going to famous soon:

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OSX/Imuler-B uses images of supermodel Irina Shayk in an attempt to trick end users into execution the malicious application. The cybercriminals behind the campaign are relying on the fact that by default, Mac OS X doesn’t display full file extensions, and therefore are attempting to trick end and corporate users into thinking that they’re about the view a JPG image file.

Upon execution the malware will delete the original infection file and only leave an image file of Irina Shayk. It will also open a backdoor on the infected host, transferring private information from the infected host to a remote Web server.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/new-mac...980?tag=nl.e550

Sounds like web surfing in the wrong waters!  

Title: Beware of supermodel Irina Shayk bearing Malware!
Post by: Highmac on March 22, 2012, 08:43:58 AM

Thanks Gunug - last paragraph of that report:

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End and corporate users are advised to turn on “Show all filename extensions” option in Finder in order to differentiate between different file types and avoid interacting with malicious applications.

Title: Beware of supermodel Irina Shayk bearing Malware!
Post by: Paddy on March 22, 2012, 10:03:30 AM

This lack of visible file extensions by default is one of the things about OS X Lion that I truly find annoying. I don't know what it is about file extensions being visible that Apple seems to find undesirable. Do the file names not look as "nice" or something? It's one of the first things I fix when I install Lion anywhere. That and the backwards scrolling and the Library not being visible....

Title: Beware of supermodel Irina Shayk bearing Malware!
Post by: gunug on March 22, 2012, 10:22:32 AM

I think I can remember and early Mac "how-to" guide (OS 7 or earlier) that actually bragged on the simplified file structure without extensions.   Not sure why that was important back then!

Title: Beware of supermodel Irina Shayk bearing Malware!
Post by: Xairbusdriver on March 22, 2012, 12:53:46 PM

Before OS X, APple was still using a better (in my opinion) method of identifying file's type and their creator. They were tiny four character tags' marking the file "Type" and its "Creator." Those bits of code could be used by any developer to determine if his app could work with any particular file. And the OS knew exactly what app had created it. Now, the OS has no idea who created a "txt/text" file. There are literally dozens of apps that can create those. But double-clicking one will not open its actual creator but whatever the OS now thinks should use them, very often an Apple developed program, of course. This scheme made Apple's particularly 'smart' in the PC world since they were limited to what we now must use; simple 3 or 4 character, generic 'tags' that make an Apple file look just like one that came from a Windows PC.

Of course, this made it hard for the 'dumber' PC to figure out what to do with an Apple created file. That's the official reason Apple claims to have dropped the method. I call it dumbing down. Same goes for not showing the suffix by default. But showing them is not especially useful, in my opinion, since the vast majority of computer users have no idea what those suffixes mean, anyway. All they do is click the "Go-Ahead-And-Install-Whatever-You-Want-I-Don't-Want-To-Take-Any-Responsibility" button...