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Hey guys.
This relates to this apple forum thread. I thought I'd bring it here to see whether anyone at mac-forums had witnessed this happening on their machine yet.
Bit of background, had a Little Snitch alert telling me that : ".rserv wants to connect to cuojshtbohnt.com", after having a windows machine for most of my life I've become half-good at spotting any suspicious behaviour .
This was associated to a random process running, and it was not until I read through the above forum post that I realised I had entered my password into an erroneous Software Update dialog box that had come up on my screen a few days ago. mmm. Not as alert as I thought I was, although I did, to my annoyance now, question the quality of the Icon which was present in the erroneous dialog box.
So, I searched for this process and found the unix executable in my Home folder, called .rserv. Weird. I'm glad I had Little Snitch running as to me, this seems like a virus (please see the thread above). I have relatively little knowledge on viruses but I know there have been a few proof of concepts and I know that OS X isn't immune to viruses, is this the real deal?
I'd appreciate anyone who may know what this is, has seen this happen to them, etc.
Cheers,
Ryan
This relates to this apple forum thread. I thought I'd bring it here to see whether anyone at mac-forums had witnessed this happening on their machine yet.
Bit of background, had a Little Snitch alert telling me that : ".rserv wants to connect to cuojshtbohnt.com", after having a windows machine for most of my life I've become half-good at spotting any suspicious behaviour .
This was associated to a random process running, and it was not until I read through the above forum post that I realised I had entered my password into an erroneous Software Update dialog box that had come up on my screen a few days ago. mmm. Not as alert as I thought I was, although I did, to my annoyance now, question the quality of the Icon which was present in the erroneous dialog box.
So, I searched for this process and found the unix executable in my Home folder, called .rserv. Weird. I'm glad I had Little Snitch running as to me, this seems like a virus (please see the thread above). I have relatively little knowledge on viruses but I know there have been a few proof of concepts and I know that OS X isn't immune to viruses, is this the real deal?
I'd appreciate anyone who may know what this is, has seen this happen to them, etc.
Cheers,
Ryan