Microsoft® Biting the Big Mac®

Microsoft was blamed by a Macintosh security organisation, for cautioning its users of a malware threat, publishing that the threat wasn’t worth the publicity it got!

Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC) provides international standards of antimalware research, which guides, cautions and warns users of a potential malware threats and infections. This organization signaled users about a new Mac “backdoor”. This is a particular malware that, permits cyber criminals to rob important files from the infected PC and also downloads harmful attack codes. It infects the IP address and the registry, waiting for the command to take over the infected PC.

According to a blog post by Meths Ferrer, a malware engineer for Microsoft, the Microsoft Malware Protection Center(MMPC) discovered the “backdoor”, nicknamed, “Backdoor:MacOS X/Olyx.A,” and a Windows backdoor, aka, “Wolyx.A.”

Ferrer said, Olyx.A acts as a Google application support file, and when used, creates a remote connection to an IP address, which belongs to Seoul, South Korea.

Intego, a French security solutions firm, which concentrates only on Mac, opposed the blog post.
Peter James, who is a spokesperson for Intego, said that they are making it seem way more serious, than it actually is, and that it is not being installed.

It’s quite, out-of-the-ordinary, to witness one security corporation accuse another for cautioning customers of a potential infection or security threat. But Intego, went ahead to do just that, as it saw Ferrer’s blog more harmful than helpful.

Macintosh has always been comparatively invulnerable to security threats as there are very few users.

It is common sense that cyber hackers and infectors concentrate on and attack Windows OS, because, most of the machines used on this planet use the operating system.

Peter James added that they’ve got better things to do than issuing an alert of something that isn’t really a threat.

“It’s kind of interesting that Microsoft took a month to mention Olyx after it started circulating,” James said, picking at Microsoft. “Maybe this is a sign that they’re going to be analyzing more Mac malware in the future.”