Mac malware poses as popular freeware PDF viewer

[clevin]

http://www.betanews.com/article/Mac-malware-poses-as-popular-freeware-PDF-viewer/1251230849

Foxit Reader, a free, lightweight PDF viewer and printer popular in our FileForum, has an evil twin.
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there is no Foxit Reader for OS X. The software is available for Windows, Windows Mobile, Embedded Linux, Desktop Linux, and U3.

Trend Micro researcher Ivan Macalintal found the malware on Sunday and classified it as a variant of the JAHLAV DNS trojan, a Mac malware discovered earlier this summer that prompts users to download a bit of software or a codec (earlier this month, it pretended to be MacCinema) which, once installed, would reroute users to phishing sites and suchlike.