Proof that porn sites are often used to infect unwary surfers has been reinforced again with news that a new virus attack aimed at MAC users, as well as Windows operating systems.

Visitors to a certain porn site are invited to install an ActiveX object to be able to watch a video. What they actually download though is a Trojan computer virus. It’s called OSX/Jahlavc and once installed, can be a difficult pest to get rid of.

Another porn site has been identified as downloading malware which targets both PCs and MACs. It’s believed to be a new version of the MAC operating system X Tored worm and those infected get redirected to a page called pagemac.php page, which then downloads a QuickTime.dmg file.

Computer security experts are again warning that porn sights often harbour a whole range of virus nasties and that hackers are getting increasingly clever in getting unsuspecting users to download all manner of malicious code. And they are starting to use techniques used on social networking sites to good effect.

Guest Article by Neil Camp