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2. macOS malware - Wikipedia

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   A trojan known as Keydnap first appeared in 2016, which placed a backdoor on victims' computers. Adware is also a problem on the Mac, with software like Genieo, which was released in 2009, inserting ads into webpages and changing users' homepage and search engine. Malware has also been spread on Macs through Microsoft Word macros.

3. Trojan horse (computing) - Wikipedia

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   In computing, a Trojan horse (or simply Trojan) is a malware that misleads users of its true intent by disguising itself as a normal program. The term is derived from the ancient Greek story of the deceptive Trojan Horse that led to the fall of the city of Troy. [1] Trojans are generally spread by some form of social engineering.

4. RSPlug - Wikipedia

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   Several variants of the RSPlug trojan were found primarily on pornographic sites disguised as video codecs, and some variants were spotted on sites offering game downloads. When OSX.RSPlug.A was installed, the system's DNS settings were changed to redirect web browsing to phishing web sites, or to web pages displaying ads for other pornographic ...

5. Tiny Banker Trojan - Wikipedia

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   The Tiny Banker Trojan has been used by international tech support scam call centers as a pretext to connect to a victim's computer and make fraudulent charges. [7] Scammers will claim the victim's bank account has been hacked with the Tiny Banker Trojan and in order to secure the bank funds, the victim will be pressured to purchase gift cards ...

6. Alureon - Wikipedia

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   Alureon (also known as TDSS or TDL-4) is a trojan and rootkit created to steal data by intercepting a system's network traffic and searching for banking usernames and passwords, credit card data, PayPal information, social security numbers, and other sensitive user data. [1]

7. AIDS (Trojan horse) - Wikipedia

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   AIDS replaces the AUTOEXEC.BAT file, which would then be used by AIDS to count the number of times the computer has booted. Once this boot count reaches 90, AIDS hides directories and encrypts the names of all files on drive C: (rendering the system unusable), at which time the user is asked to 'renew the license' and contact PC Cyborg Corporation for payment (which would involve sending US ...

8. Flashback (Trojan) - Wikipedia

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   OSX.FlashBack, [1] also known as the Flashback Trojan, Fakeflash, or Trojan BackDoor.Flashback, is a Trojan horse affecting personal computer systems running Mac OS X. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The first variant of Flashback was discovered by antivirus company Intego in September 2011.

9. ClamAV - Wikipedia

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   ClamAV (antivirus) is a free software, cross-platform antimalware toolkit able to detect many types of malware, including viruses.It was developed for Unix and has third party versions available for AIX, BSD, HP-UX, Linux, macOS, OpenVMS, OSF (Tru64), Solaris and Haiku.