Sandi over at the Spyware Sucks blog “pointed”:http://msmvps.com/blogs/spywaresucks/archive/2008/08/15/1644705.aspx to “this thread”:http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7768848 on Apple’s Mac forums, indicating that some Mac users have been victims of a web-based malware attack:
bq. This has happened to me twice now, on two separate computers at work. My clipboard has been hijacked with this:
bq. [potentially dangerous URL removed]
bq. And once it’s in the clipboard, I can’t copy anything else over it until I’ve restarted the machine.
Several other users reported similar attacks, whether they were using Safari or Firefox as their browser.
[Update 8/19: There are also "reports":http://ubuntu-virginia.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=886905 of this issue from users of Ubuntu, a popular distribution of Linux.]
This is a good reminder that users of operating systems other than Windows are not immune to malware or social engineering.
