Detected Trojan for OS X, pretending to be paid VKMusic 4 installer

Long gone are the days cloudless when the OS X desktop platform is considered to be the most secure operating system, "Makovsky" viruses could be counted on the fingers of one hand. And let the normal functioning of the computer the user is only required to regularly update the software and at work the system sometimes connect the mind, the fact remains that malware for OS X appear one after another with amazing speed.

In early December, less than two weeks ago, we wrote about a new virus DocksterWhich uses known vulnerabilities of Java technology. A few days ago the Russian company the company "Doctor Web", dealing with computer security, has found one more dangerous Trojan for OS X with the intricate name Trojan. SMSSend.3666.

As the name implies, the core of the virus is the principle of an innocent victim of fraud - User forced to send an SMS to a short number, and then issued a paid subscription. Let me give you a quote from Company press release "Doctor Web":

Malware of the family Trojan. SMSSend prevalent in today's Internet. They are paid an archive that can be downloaded from various websites under the guise of a useful program. In the process of opening such a file on a computer screen is shown infterfeys simulating execution of the installation program of a particular application. At the same time for the continuation of "installation" scammers ask the victim to enter into an appropriate form of a mobile phone number, and then specify the code, which came in the second SMS. If the user performs the action, he agrees with a paid subscription to the conditions under which the account of his cell phone will be regularly written off a subscriber payment. Typically, the archive is in a completely useless "junk" or declared frauds program that can be downloaded from the official website of the developers for free

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As confirmed "Doctor Web", the Trojan virus. SMSSend.3666 is the first such trojan to the operating system OS X. As for the details of the process, the program is fraudulent VKMusic tool 4, which As planned by the developers should allow the user to listen to music from the social network In contact with.