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  Mac Malware Evolves - No Install Password Required

  Posted: May 26th, 2011, 5:00pm CEST by samzenpus

  Tags:  security  

  An anonymous reader writes "The latest versions of the Mac Defender malware attacks no longer require users to enter their admin credentials (username and password) upon install. A threat called 'Mac Guard' installs itself into areas of the Mac OS X system that only require standard user privilege. On Windows the criminals did this to avoid UAC warnings, and have copied this trick to their Mac OS X releases."

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