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Intego Reports Malware in Pirated Copies of Photoshop CS 4

January 26, 2009

Pirated copies of Photoshop CS 4 has been reported by Intego to contain malware. On January 16th Photoshop CS 4 containing the malware was seeded to peer-2-peer servers. This trojan have been labeled as OSX.Trojan.iServices.B, the second variant of the trojan, the first discovered in iWork 09 pirated software. It is recommended not to download these files. Like its predecessor this variant obtains root privileges, and notifies the remote host of the infected computers location on the Internet.

Intego Reports Malware in Pirated Copies of Photoshop CS 4

Pirated copies of Photoshop CS 4 has been reported by Intego to contain malware. On January 16th Photoshop CS 4 containing the malware was seeded to peer-2-peer servers. This trojan have been labeled as OSX.Trojan.iServices.B, the second variant of the trojan, the first discovered in iWork 09 pirated software. It is recommended not to download these files. Like its predecessor this variant obtains root privileges, and notifies the remote host of the infected computers location on the Internet.

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