# OS X virus: did I dodge a bullet?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 30, 2009, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/os-x-virus-did-i-dodge-a-bullet/494844 "2009-04-30T14:36:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![sweeteviljesus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@sweeteviljesus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweeteviljesus)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/os-x-virus-did-i-dodge-a-bullet/494844/1 "2009-04-30T14:36:59Z")

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A couple of nights ago, I was looking at a site (ok, it was porn) and it had a link to download Flash 10. I downloaded and launched the installer and was told that the program to be installed was MacCinema. I stepped through the wizard and decided to back out of the process before installing. The next night I went back to the site and decided to go directly to adobe and download the latest Flash player. I went back to the site and noticed that it still wanted me to install Flash 10, so I googled MacCinema and discovered that it was indeed a trojan horse. I however am unsure if the virus is contained in the software to be installed (which I am pretty sure of) or in the installer itself (I hope not). Does anyone know?

Thanks,  
Rob

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**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/os-x-virus-did-i-dodge-a-bullet/494844/2 "2009-04-30T14:52:20Z")

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Here’s how to determine if you have it:  
[http://ithreats.net/2008/12/26/how-to-remove-macaccess-trojan/](http://ithreats.net/2008/12/26/how-to-remove-macaccess-trojan/)  
BTW, it’s a Trojan, not a virus.

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**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/os-x-virus-did-i-dodge-a-bullet/494844/3 "2009-04-30T15:35:24Z")

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Just to underline something that may not be clear from **beowulff** ’s link. MacCinema is indeed a later version of MacAccess.

Here’s the MacCinema link from the same threats site:

[http://ithreats.net/2009/03/17/latest-mac-threat-maccinema/](http://ithreats.net/2009/03/17/latest-mac-threat-maccinema/)