Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 18th Apr 2009 09:27 UTC
Remember the Mac trojan that we reported about earlier this year? A trojan was found piggybacking on the back of copies of iWork and Photoshop CS4 found on warez sites and networks, and it would install itself after the user had entered his or her administrator password during the software's installation. This trojan didn't seem like much of a threat back then, but as it turns out, it's now in use in the first Macintosh botnet.
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Moredhas wrote:
-"Ah, but there COULD be. How hard would it be to set up a site with md5 sums of "healthy" programs, to compare to warez you download? Even if you don't trust the site, you'll know if there's a problem when the md5s don't match."
Uh? These cracks would have to make changes to the programs code which would then result in a different md5 hash, no matter if they inserted a trojan or not.