A new piece of Trojan Horse malware has found its way onto pirated copies of Photoshop and iWork ’09, according to security firm Intego. The person using the pirated software activates the Trojan when he runs the other program to generate a false serial number. If he enters his admin password (standard procedure when installing most software), the Trojan installs other applications which start listening for an open TCP port, allowing another user to have remote access to the Mac.

In quite possibly the stupidest move Apple has made since the hockey puck mouse, Apple has now removed a Knowledge Base page that advised Mac users to have Antivirus software installed on their machines.

Macworld reports:

“We have removed the KnowledgeBase article because it was old and inaccurate,” Apple spokesman Bill Evans, told Macworld. “The Mac is designed with built-in technologies that provide protection against malicious software and security threats right out of the box.”

Yeah, so does Windows, and look how well that worked for them.

If you ask a worker at the Apple Store about antivirus software for the Mac, you may hear that you don’t need it at all because, “Macs don’t get viruses.” However, this information may no longer hold true. At least Apple itself doesn’t think so. According to a recently published knowledge base article from Apple, more »