{"id":980,"date":"2009-07-21T14:57:51","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T21:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.intego.com\/?p=980"},"modified":"2016-02-12T09:57:23","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T17:57:23","slug":"new-version-of-rsplug-trojan-horse-masquerading-as-mac-os-x-crackkeygen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/new-version-of-rsplug-trojan-horse-masquerading-as-mac-os-x-crackkeygen\/","title":{"rendered":"New Version of RSPlug Trojan Horse Masquerading as Mac OS X Crack\/Keygen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s version of the RSplug Trojan horse &#8211; OSX\/RSPlug.N for those who want to keep their scorecards up to date &#8211; is found in an odd download. A web page offering cracks and keygens (tools that generate serial numbers) provides Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.4 for download, together with a crack and a keygen. There are a couple of reasons why this is clearly bogus. First, Mac OS X doesn&#8217;t use a serial number, and never has. So no crack or keygen is required. Second, as you can see in the screen shot below, the supposed download is for &#8220;AMD and Intel Platforms&#8221;. Mac OS X has never been available for AMD processors.<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/images\/rsplugn.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nSo, another version of this ubiquitous Trojan horse has been thwarted by Intego&#8217;s Virus Monitoring Center. The latest virus definitions for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/virusbarrier\/\">VirusBarrier X5<\/a> protect against this and all other variants of the RSPlug Trojan horse.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s version of the RSplug Trojan horse &#8211; OSX\/RSPlug.N for those who want to keep their scorecards up to date &#8211; is found in an odd download. 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