	{"id":66,"date":"2007-11-25T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2007-11-25T17:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.intego.com\/2007\/11\/25\/new-variant-of-rsplug-trojan-horse\/"},"modified":"2016-02-12T09:55:53","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T17:55:53","slug":"new-variant-of-rsplug-trojan-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/new-variant-of-rsplug-trojan-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"New Variant of RSPlug Trojan Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intego&#8217;s Virus Monitoring Center has spotted a variant of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/intego-security-alert-osxrspluga-trojan-horse\/\">RSPlug.A Trojan horse<\/a>. This variant, discovered on November 21, and called OSX.RSPlug.B, is identical to the first version of the Trojan, with the exception that its installation script is encrypted. This is done in an attempt to fool antivirus software. Intego&#8217;s virus team has updated its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/virusbarrier\/\">VirusBarrier<\/a> definitions. Those dated November 22, 2007 protect against this new variant. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intego&#8217;s Virus Monitoring Center has spotted a variant of the RSPlug.A Trojan horse. This variant, discovered on November 21, and called OSX.RSPlug.B, is identical to the first version of the Trojan, with the exception that its installation script is encrypted. This is done in an attempt to fool antivirus software. Intego&#8217;s virus team has updated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[190],"tags":[86,2683,132],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Intego&#039;s Virus Monitoring Center has spotted a variant of the RSPlug.A Trojan horse. This variant, discovered on November 21, and called OSX.RSPlug.B, is\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/new-variant-of-rsplug-trojan-horse\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Variant of RSPlug Trojan Horse - The Mac Security Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Intego&#039;s Virus Monitoring Center has spotted a variant of the RSPlug.A Trojan horse. This variant, discovered on November 21, and called OSX.RSPlug.B, is\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/new-variant-of-rsplug-trojan-horse\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Mac Security Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2007-11-25T17:00:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-02-12T17:55:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Peter James\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Intego\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/\",\"sameAs\":[],\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/#logo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/intego-organization-logo-for-google-knowledge-graph-875x875-1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/intego-organization-logo-for-google-knowledge-graph-875x875-1.png\",\"width\":875,\"height\":875,\"caption\":\"Intego\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/#logo\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/\",\"name\":\"The Mac Security Blog\",\"description\":\"Keep Macs safe from the dangers of the Internet\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/new-variant-of-rsplug-trojan-horse\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/new-variant-of-rsplug-trojan-horse\/\",\"name\":\"New Variant of RSPlug Trojan Horse - The Mac Security Blog\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2007-11-25T17:00:52+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-02-12T17:55:53+00:00\",\"description\":\"Intego's Virus Monitoring Center has spotted a variant of the RSPlug.A Trojan horse. This variant, discovered on November 21, and called OSX.RSPlug.B, is\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/new-variant-of-rsplug-trojan-horse\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/new-variant-of-rsplug-trojan-horse\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/new-variant-of-rsplug-trojan-horse\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"New Variant of RSPlug Trojan Horse\"}]},{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/new-variant-of-rsplug-trojan-horse\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/new-variant-of-rsplug-trojan-horse\/#webpage\"},\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/#\/schema\/person\/d0c16bd0a4dd8f82d91204f400c8d116\"},\"headline\":\"New Variant of RSPlug Trojan Horse\",\"datePublished\":\"2007-11-25T17:00:52+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-02-12T17:55:53+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/new-variant-of-rsplug-trojan-horse\/#webpage\"},\"wordCount\":74,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"Malware\",\"RSPlug\",\"Trojan Horse\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Malware\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/new-variant-of-rsplug-trojan-horse\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/#\/schema\/person\/d0c16bd0a4dd8f82d91204f400c8d116\",\"name\":\"Peter James\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0626bfb4ada576ba5aa775322329ad47?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0626bfb4ada576ba5aa775322329ad47?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Peter James\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/author\/peter\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"description":"Intego's Virus Monitoring Center has spotted a variant of the RSPlug.A Trojan horse. This variant, discovered on November 21, and called OSX.RSPlug.B, is","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/new-variant-of-rsplug-trojan-horse\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"New Variant of RSPlug Trojan Horse - The Mac Security Blog","og_description":"Intego's Virus Monitoring Center has spotted a variant of the RSPlug.A Trojan horse. This variant, discovered on November 21, and called OSX.RSPlug.B, is","og_url":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/new-variant-of-rsplug-trojan-horse\/","og_site_name":"The Mac Security Blog","article_published_time":"2007-11-25T17:00:52+00:00","article_modified_time":"2016-02-12T17:55:53+00:00","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Peter James"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/#organization","name":"Intego","url":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/","sameAs":[],"logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/#logo","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/intego-organization-logo-for-google-knowledge-graph-875x875-1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/intego-organization-logo-for-google-knowledge-graph-875x875-1.png","width":875,"height":875,"caption":"Intego"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/#logo"}},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/","name":"The Mac Security Blog","description":"Keep Macs safe from the dangers of the Internet","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/new-variant-of-rsplug-trojan-horse\/#webpage","url":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/new-variant-of-rsplug-trojan-horse\/","name":"New Variant of RSPlug Trojan Horse - The Mac Security Blog","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2007-11-25T17:00:52+00:00","dateModified":"2016-02-12T17:55:53+00:00","description":"Intego's Virus Monitoring Center has spotted a variant of the RSPlug.A Trojan horse. This variant, discovered on November 21, and called OSX.RSPlug.B, is","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/new-variant-of-rsplug-trojan-horse\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/new-variant-of-rsplug-trojan-horse\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/new-variant-of-rsplug-trojan-horse\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"New Variant of RSPlug Trojan Horse"}]},{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/new-variant-of-rsplug-trojan-horse\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/new-variant-of-rsplug-trojan-horse\/#webpage"},"author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/#\/schema\/person\/d0c16bd0a4dd8f82d91204f400c8d116"},"headline":"New Variant of RSPlug Trojan Horse","datePublished":"2007-11-25T17:00:52+00:00","dateModified":"2016-02-12T17:55:53+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/new-variant-of-rsplug-trojan-horse\/#webpage"},"wordCount":74,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/#organization"},"keywords":["Malware","RSPlug","Trojan Horse"],"articleSection":["Malware"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/new-variant-of-rsplug-trojan-horse\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/#\/schema\/person\/d0c16bd0a4dd8f82d91204f400c8d116","name":"Peter James","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/#personlogo","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0626bfb4ada576ba5aa775322329ad47?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0626bfb4ada576ba5aa775322329ad47?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Peter James"},"url":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/author\/peter\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4VAYd-14","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/origin.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/origin.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/origin.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/origin.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7198,"href":"https:\/\/origin.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/7198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/origin.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}