Oh, SNAP! Ill-gotten iWork ‘09 might force a reformat of that trusty Mac.

By mike

So I’m interested in this ’cause I run a Mac at home for sanity’s sake. Gizmodo’s reporting about a particularly nasty (possible) result of hoovering that new copy of iWork ‘09 that was announced a few weeks ago: OSX.Trojan.iServices.A.

This may be a first for the Mac software world, and it’s not cool at all: ill-gotten copies of iWork ‘09 circulating on Torrent sites contain OSX.Trojan.iServices.A, which is something you don’t want.

The Trojan parks itself in your /System/Library/StartupItems folder with read-write-execute root privileges—from there it can phone home to a remote server and install additional nasties throughout your system. Right now, the only true fix is a full format and re-install, since its residual pieces can be spread far and wide. You can spot if your particular warez iWork is infected by searching for the iWorkServices.pkg inside the installer.

You know, Macs being invulnerable and all…

You have no idea… Picasa for the Mac!

By mike

Announced today: Picasa is finally available for the Mac. Not that iPhoto wasn’t sort of slick, and made my first introduction to owning a Mac a really fun learning experience… but it’s just that Picasa is world’s better than iPhoto (or any other more expensive option like Lightroom).

Fully owning the fact that I’m all sorts of choked-up geek about this. One of the main reasons I wanted a laptop was the ability to take my photos with my everywhere – home to see my family, on trpis to upload stuff while on the road, etc. And I’ve always found iPhoto a little counfounding and a little too behind-the-scenes. Not any more with Picasa!

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