Mac users, be careful on port tube sites!
 

Source: ZDnet

Researchers from ParetoLogic are reporting on a newly discovered Mac OS X malware variant posing as fake video ActiveX object found at a bogus Macintosh PortTube site.

The use of fake video codecs is a social engineering tactic exclusively used by malware targeting Windows, and seeing it used in a Mac OS X based malware attack proves that successful social engineering approaches remain OS independent.



Read more: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3575&tag=nl.e550

I think if anyone is stupid enough to download something from a tube porn site and then give it their admin password to have it install something then they probably shouldn't be using a computer in the first place.

I first encountered this back on the first of this month before news came out about it.

Quit ignoring the hilarity of ZDnet letting "PortTube" get past their editor.

I have to admit that I missed the PortTube misspelling until you pointed it out.