Heads up, freaks. There’s a trojan inside a certain Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Mac crack generator that’s spreading around. (Type “photoshop cs4 mac crack” in The PirateBay for the offending file.) It’s a variant of a trojan that was first discovered last week, so that means this trojan is getting around.
The trojan is called “OSX.Trojan.iServices.B Trojan Horse” and gets into your system after you give permission to it while launching the crack, as this screenshot shows. (Why in God’s name would you need to give a simple crack generator your account info is beyond me.)
Intego, which makes Mac anti-virus software, says its latest definitions can protect against the trojan.
The moral of the story is, obviously, don’t be daft when pirating—I won’t pretend that more than a few of you do, indeed, pirate—software. There’s an argument to make about, maybe Adobe shouldn’t have to charge a zillion dollars for Photoshop, but that’s for another day.
The lesson here is EXACTLY the same for Mac users as it is for Windows or Linux users… Do not ever relinquish Administrator (or Root) privileges to unknown software.
That and the thing that says something about something being too good to be true…
Thats a big lesson for me. i am so trust worthy with stuff i download on the net, passwords, and all that. thank God i have been lucky so far
yeah, i’m not gonna pay bunch of money for a software i’m just using for fun @ home – to crop, put some contrast, sharpness and stuff like that to my photos.
adobe should be more realistic!!!
i’d recommend them to release something like free photoshop LT version, that doesn’t contain the most of the filters, and I guarantee, the piracy will decrease!