The Boonana Trojan Horse was discovered in October 2010 and is designed to affect computers running both the Mac OS X and Windows Operating Systems. The virus is designed to leverage social media sites such as Facebook by disguising itself as a video link on a message asking the recipient if they are in the video. Once installed on your computer, the Trojan will hijack user accounts to further spread and send information to a remote command and control server for the virus.
How Does the Boonana Trojan Horse Infect Your Computer?
The primary means of infection is through infected video attachments in social networking messages on sites such as Facebook. When the end-user clicks on the link in the message, the Boonana Trojan will launch as a Java applet. It will then proceed to download additional files to your computer to include an installer program which will launch automatically.
What Does the Boonana Trojan Horse Do To Your Computer?
Once the Boonana Trojan’s installer is launched, system files will then be modified to bypass the need for passwords on your computer. This will permit outside access to all files on the system. The virus will also be set to run invisibly in the computer’s background at boot. It will randomly establish communications with a command and control server to pass information from the infected computer. In parallel, the virus will hijack user accounts on your computer to further spread through sending fake emails and social medial messages. The Boonana virus is one of the first, cross-platform Trojans to be found and is advanced enough to contact alternative control servers if the primary ones are not found.
How Do You Remove the Boonana Trojan Horse Virus?
There are two ways to eliminate the Boonana Trojan Horse virus. First, is to update the anti-virus program on your Mac and run a complete system scan. The majority of main-stream anti-virus programs for Macs have been updated to defend against this Trojan. If you do not have an anti-virus program installed on your machine, you can also download and run the Boonana Trojan Horse Removal Tool produced for free by secureMac.com found at: http://macscan.securemac.com/files/BTRT.dmg
How Can You Guard Against the Boonana Trojan Horse Virus?
If you are really paranoid, you can open the “Safari Preferences” menu option located under the “Security Tab” in the Safari web browser and then de-select the “Enable Java” check-box. You can also pay more attention to what websites that you visit and try to avoid clicking links included on social media web site messages. Additionally, you can ensure that the built-in firewall on OS X and Windows is turned on which should help prevent the virus from communicating with its remote host if your computer does become infected.
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