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Make a virus for a mac how to#

This one’s a little more interesting it leads (among other places) to the Viruses and the Mac FAQ, which purports to have a virus “test file” that will allow you to test your virus scanning software. This document hasn’t been updated since the year 2000. I suppose I could lie, try a little social engineering, and see what happens, but I guess I would be caught at it pretty easily. The writer goes on to say that he refuses to send the casual reader (that would be me) a copy of the Trojan to play with, because we are not (obviously!) computer security professionals. …and then for non-Admin users, it fails to infect most applications.

Double-click on the resulting file to “open” it.

Double-click on the file to decompress it.

Are somehow sent (via email, iChat, etc.) or download the “latestpics.tgz” file.

In order to have your Mac infected by this “Oompa-Loompa” Trojan, you (quoting now): Malware for MacsĪccording to one website, a Trojan was discovered maybe a year ago that is theoretically capable of infecting applications on an OS X computer. I did what any good Net user would do: I asked Google, “How do I get infected with a Mac virus or Trojan?”

Make a virus for a mac how to#

I wondered if it would be possible to find out how to get infected so I could pass on to you, dear reader, how to avoid the scourge of virii/viruses and Trojans that are lurking out there just waiting for an innocent Mac user.

I became curious about the fact that while there are malware programs for OS X, I hadn’t ever seen any.

It’s not as easy as you might think to infect a Mac with a virus or other malware program.