How do I get rid of this Trojan Horse? (OSX.RSPlug.D)

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macfabulousmacfabulous
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
Hi guys



I´m afraid that I unfotunately and naively have downloaded and installed the following Trojan Horse OSX.RSPlug.D on my Mac a while back. I´m not sure though? Do you guys know how to identify the "intruder" and find out wether or not it´s actually on your system?



There is a description of it in this link: http://news.zdnet.com/2424-9595_22-251586.html



How do I locate and uninstall this again? I have searched my Mac for the filename OSX.RSPlug.D but can´t find it anywhere. Is it hiding somewhere in my system by another name or should I not worry?



Hope you have some ideas...



Thanks...

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  • Reply 1 of 3
    kmac1036kmac1036 Posts: 281member
    this tool might clear it off.

    http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/33696



    otherwise, you will either have to buy one of the anti-virus apps or reload the machine with OS X.
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    macfabulousmacfabulous Posts: 49member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by kmac1036 View Post


    this tool might clear it off.

    http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/33696



    otherwise, you will either have to buy one of the anti-virus apps or reload the machine with OS X.



    Thanks
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    derekcurriederekcurrie Posts: 64member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Macfabulous View Post


    Hi guys



    I´m afraid that I unfotunately and naively have downloaded and installed the following Trojan Horse OSX.RSPlug.D on my Mac a while back. I´m not sure though? Do you guys know how to identify the "intruder" and find out wether or not it´s actually on your system?



    There are now two FREEWARE anti-malware programs for Mac OS X. Both of them can detect and clean out variants of Trojan OSX.RSPlug as well as the second malware threat called Trojan OSX.Lamzev.A.



    1) ClamXav (or Leopard Cache Cleaner, which has Clam built in).



    2) iAnti-Virus (from PC Tools).



    The lastest versions of these programs, loaded with the latest malware definitions, will find and kill both these threats. Note that iAnti-virus is ONLY for Mac malware. It does not detect Windows malware. If you are worried about spreading Windows malware around, use ClamXav instead. I recommend running both programs about once a week. I like setting them to scan my boot drive before I go into snooze mode at night.



    You can read about current Mac OS X malware at my blog Mac-Security.
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