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Cult of Mac: Security Experts Flag Art Project as Malware Threat to Mac Users
Macworld: New Mac 'game' plays Russian roulette with your files
AppleInsider: 'Art project' video game attacks Apple Mac machines
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Mac game plays with the 'morality of killing' - each alien you shoot deletes a file from your hard-drive!http://bit.ly/21GIXt 10 days ago |
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http://bit.ly/3KVPq9 #MAC #VIRUS #RTFM - Learn from Linux! 28 days ago |
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If a program gives you a warning like that, why the hell would you even continue playing? http://bit.ly/32p6po 30 days ago |
Security Experts Flag Art Project as Malware Threat to Mac Users
Cult of Mac —
... as malware.“A new threat cleverly disguised as a classic video game is targeting unsuspecting Mac users,” Symantec said in an email to CultofMac.com. It continued: 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 – the world leader in online security – recently discovered this new Trojan horse targeting Mac users and video of it in action can be seen here . Online games are increasingly becoming a target for ...
New Mac 'game' plays Russian roulette with your files
Macworld —
... of the Mac software world, says it considers the game a potential security threat and will begin detecting it as OSX.Loosemanque. That hasn’t stopped people from downloading it. A list of high scores on Gage’s site includes a few “Losers” who claim to have eclipsed 4,000 points. If nothing else, it’s a way to kill time while you reformat a hard drive.
'Art project' video game attacks Apple Mac machines
AppleInsider —
... grows, our understanding of it diminishes, yet, at the same time, it becomes increasingly important in our lives. At what point does our virtual data become as important to us as physical possessions? If we have reached that point already, what real objects do we value less than our data? What implications does trusting something so important to something we understand so poorly have?" While Gage sees his project as art, Symantec views it as a Trojan, though "Lose/Lose" is not seen as a great threat at the moment. The malware's creator even warns on his Web site what the ...
