Trojan horse disguised as video game deletes files from your home directory
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Nov 3, 2009 at 9:40pm
Symantec, which specializes in online security, says that a new threat cleverly disguised as a classic video game is targeting unsuspecting Mac users. The Trojan horse, known as Trojan.Loosemaque, is designed to look like a Space Invaders/Galaga style game.
However, for every alien ship the user destroys, the program deletes a file from the home directory. Symantec recently discovered this new Trojan horse targeting Mac users and video of it in action can be seen here: http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/osxloosemaque-it-s-not-just-game-anymore
Online games are increasingly becoming a target for virus creators, and this threat shows it’s a possibility regardless of the platform, according to Symantec. While the author of OS X.Loosemaque actually informs people on his web site that the game deletes files, there’s nothing stopping someone with more malicious intentions from modifying it and passing it on to unsuspecting users who don’t have security software installed.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 10,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
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