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What is the RAT malware?
RAT stands for remote access trojan. It's a type of malware that allows hackers to access and control a computer or computers on a network. Once they have that control, they can use the computer as if they were sitting in front of it and logged in. If you've ever used software that allows you to access a computer from a different location remotely, or needed a system administrator to log in to your computer from office, you know what we mean.
How did I get a RAT on my computer?
Unlike legitimate remote access tools, RAT malware is downloaded and installed by stealth, without the user's knowledge or permission. Once installed, they circumvent the protection built into the OS, such as Input Monitoring in the Security & Privacy pane of System Preferences, that's designed to prevent unauthorized access.
However, like most malware, to get onto your Mac in the first place, they have to be downloaded by you. This could be a link you see in an email or website and infect your Mac the moment you click it. This could also be an app bundled with the RAT malware that gets onto your Mac when you install it.
How do I know if there’s a RAT on my Mac?
You may not know at all. But you may notice it when your Mac starts behaving strangely – some windows are opening although you didn’t open them, the mouse pointer is moving without you even touching your laptop.
If the activity of the hacker takes place in the background, for example, you won’t notice anything. What’s more, unlike other forms of malware, RATs don’t usually slow down your Mac or impede its performance in different ways. So, it can be either a few signs or even no signs at all that your Mac is infected with the RAT malware.
What are RATs used for?
As you can imagine, once a hacker has administrative control over your Mac, they can do almost anything they like. Most commonly, RATs are used for the following:
- stealing data
- logging keystrokes to gain access to online accounts
- taking control of a webcam to take pictures
- use your Mac as part of a botnet
- cryptocurrency mining.
As you can imagine, once a hacker has private data or images of you from a webcam, they can use that as part of a ransomware scam. They can also log in to your online account and post on social media on your behalf. That’s pretty scary stuff, and while RATs are pretty rare and you’re unlikely to fall victim to one, the consequences if you do could be pretty dire.
How to avoid a RAT?
RATs don’t self-replicate, nor exploit vulnerabilities in networks like worms do. They get onto your Mac when you open a RAT malware email attachment, click on a link, visit a website, or download software. So, to avoid getting RAT malware on your Mac, you should follow the same precautions you would in order to avoid any malware:
- don’t click on a link in an email or message unless you are absolutely sure where it leads
- don’t visit a website that your browser warns you it’s unsafe
- keep your browser up to date
- always install security updates for macOS as soon as you can
- don’t respond to scareware and pop-ups that tell you that Flash Player or any other software is out of date or there is a problem with your Mac that needs some special software to fix it
- avoid downloading software from free download sites that use their own download manager.
How to remove RAT malware from your Mac?
If you suspect that your Mac is being controlled remotely, or if it starts behaving strangely, you should scan it with anti-malware software. There are lots of really good anti-malware tools for the Mac, but my favorite is CleanMyMac X. You can set it to protect your Mac automatically by scanning it regularly in the background while you work. You can also run scans manually whenever you want.
CleanMyMac X compares what it finds on your Mac with its database of known malware, and if it finds anything, it allows you to remove it with a couple of clicks. Here’s how to use it.
- Download, install, and launch CleanMyMac X.
- To set it to protect your Mac automatically, click on the CleanMyMac X menu, and choose Preferences.
- Select the Protection tab.
- Check the box next to real-time protection.
- Close Preferences.
- To scan your Mac for malware, choose the Malware Removal module in the sidebar.
- Press Scan.
- If CleanMyMac X finds any malware on your Mac, it will tell you what it’s found. If not, it will give you the all-clear.
- If it finds anything, press Remove to get rid of it.
The good news is that there aren’t that many RATs in use. Most hackers use RATs that already exist, rather than creating their own. That means that anti-malware tools like CleanMyMac X almost certainly knows about the RAT that’s been installed on your Mac, if there is one, and will be able to remove it.
Remote Access Trojans are a type of malware that allows a hacker to take control of your computer. Once they have that control, they can use it to do anything they like, from stealing and deleting files to accessing financial details and even posting on social media on your behalf. However, they are relatively easy to avoid, and you can scan your Mac for them and remove one if it’s there quickly and easily using CleanMyMac X.
Desperate Living | |
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Directed by | John Waters |
Produced by | John Waters |
Written by | John Waters |
Starring | Liz Renay Mink Stole Edith Massey Susan Lowe Mary Vivian Pearce Jean Hill |
Music by | Chris Lobingier Allen Yanus |
Cinematography | John Waters |
Edited by | Charles Roggero |
Production company | |
Distributed by | New Line Cinema |
Release date | |
Running time | 90 minutes[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $65,000 |
Desperate Living is a 1977 American comedy film directed, produced, and written by John Waters.[2] The film stars Liz Renay, Mink Stole, Edith Massey, Susan Lowe, Mary Vivian Pearce, and Jean Hill.
It is the third installment of what Waters has labelled the 'Trash Trilogy', which also includes Pink Flamingos (1972) and Female Trouble (1974), and the only one to not feature Divine.[3]The film generated a cult following around Renay, who appeared in at least two dozen other movies.[4]
Plot[edit]
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Peggy Gravel, a neurotic, delusional, suburban housewife, and her overweight nurse, Grizelda Brown, go on the lam after Grizelda smothers Peggy's husband, Bosley, to death. The two are arrested by a cross-dressing policeman, who gives them an ultimatum: go to jail or be exiled to Mortville, a filthy shantytown ruled by the evil Queen Carlotta and her treasonous daughter, Princess Coo-Coo.
Peggy and Grizelda choose Mortville, and engage in lesbian prison sex. They become associates of self-hating lesbianwrestler Mole McHenry, who wants a sex change to please her lover, Muffy St. Jacques. After confiscating a lottery ticket from Peggy, Mole wins the Maryland Lottery and uses the money to obtain gender reassignment surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. However, Muffy is repulsed by Mole's phalloplasty and insists she cut it off, so Mole gives herself a penectomy.
Most of Mortville's social outcasts—criminals, nudists, and sexual deviants—conspire to overthrow Queen Carlotta, who banishes Coo-Coo after she elopes with a garbage collector, who is later shot to death by the guards. Coo-Coo hides in Peggy and Grizelda's house with her dead lover. When Peggy betrays Coo-Coo to the Queen's guards, Grizelda fights them and dies when the house collapses on her. Peggy, however, joins the queen in terrorizing her subjects, even infecting them (and Princess Coo-Coo) with rabies.
Eventually, Mortville's denizens, led by Mole, overthrow Queen Carlotta and execute Peggy by shooting a gun up her anus. To celebrate their freedom, the townsfolk roast Carlotta on a spit and serve her, pig-like, on a platter with an apple in her mouth.
Cast[edit]
- Liz Renay as Muffy St. Jacques
- Mink Stole as Peggy Gravel
- Edith Massey as Queen Carlotta
- Susan Lowe as Mole McHenry
- Mary Vivian Pearce as Princess Coo-Coo
- Jean Hill as Grizelda Brown
- Cookie Mueller as Flipper
- Channing Wilroy as Lt. Wilson
- Ed Peranio as Lt. Williams
- Paul Swift as Mr. Paul
- George Figgs as Herbert
- Sharon Niesp as Shotsie
- George Stover as Bosley Gravel
- Turkey Joe as Sheriff Shitface
- Al Strapelli as Dr. Evans
- Brook Blake as Bosley Gravel, Jr.
- Karen Gerwig as Beth Gravel
Production[edit]
Art directorVincent Peranio built the exterior sets for Mortville on a 26-acre farm in Hampstead, Maryland, owned by Waters' friend, Peter Koper.[5] The exterior sets were largely constructed of plywood and rubbish Peranio and Waters had collected from around Baltimore.[6] Production manager Robert Maier recalled the challenges of shooting without adequate facilities, how the cast and crew overwhelmed the farm's septic system, how heavy rains nearly washed away the set, and how 'charmed' Waters seemed through it all.[7]
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The Mortville interiors were filmed in a 5000-sq-ft, second-story loft in a rented warehouse located in Fells Point, Baltimore. The space was unheated, noisy, and poorly suited for film production according to Maier.[8]
Desperate Living was edited for 10 weeks in the basement of editor Charles Roggero's home. It was Waters' first film with original music, by Chris Lobingier and Allen Yanus, to provide a 'cheesy Doctor Zhivago-type score'.[9]
Casting[edit]
Desperate Living is the only feature film Waters made without Divine prior to the actor's death in 1988. Divine had to reluctantly back away from the film because he was committed to appearing in Women Behind Bars. Susan Lowe, who had appeared in small or supporting roles in Waters' previous films, was chosen to take over for the role of Mole McHenry. This was also Waters' first film without David Lochary, because of Lochary's addiction to drugs. Waters said 'The reason that David wasn't in Desperate Living is because of PCP. That's all that's to it. I know that's why he wasn't in the film, and he knows it, too.'[citation needed] Lochary died a few weeks after the film's release, when he injured himself while under the influence of the drug.[10]
Waters had received a copy of Liz Renay's autobiographyMy Face for the World to See and wanted to offer her a role in the film. He went to see Renay in a burlesque show in Boston, then traveled to Los Angeles to offer her the role of Muffy St. Jacques. He offered her only a brief outline of the story, withholding some of the more graphic details for fear that she might refuse the role. Renay accepted the offer and flew to Baltimore for three weeks of shooting (which was, reportedly, all that the production could afford to pay Renay for her services).[11]
Release[edit]
As with Waters' previous films, the premiere was held in the auditorium of the University of Baltimore. A brief controversy arose when lesbian groups attacked the film for its depiction of lesbianism, and for taking the title of a defunct prolesbian magazine. New Line Cinema blew the film up from 16 to 35 mm and opened it at midnight in Manhattan, though the original poster (featuring a cooked rat on a plate) was rejected by The New York Times to run, forcing a new poster to be created three days before the opening. The new poster featured Liz Renay in a screaming pose, fashioned from a production still.
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Critics from Good Housekeeping walked out of the film after 10 minutes. Otherwise, Playboy enjoyed the film, stating it had to be 'seen to be believed'. David Chute of The Boston Phoenix said of the film: 'In Desperate Living, Waters comes close to creating a work of true trash art.' The film currently holds a 70% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[12]
Influence[edit]
- The rock band Marilyn Manson include a tribute to Desperate Living on their 1994 album, Portrait of an American Family. The last track on the album has a recording of Mink Stole's character, Peggy Gravel, shouting at children playing baseball who have broken her window: 'Go home to your mother! Doesn't she ever watch you? Tell her this isn't some Communist daycare center! Tell your mother I hate her! Tell your mother I hate you!'
- Horse the Band's 2009 album was titled Desperate Living after the film.
- Japanese director Tomoaki Hosoyama's early pink filmLesbian Harem (1987) is an homage to Desperate Living.[13]
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References[edit]
- ^'DESPERATE LIVING (18) (!)'. British Board of Film Classification. September 7, 1990. Retrieved January 28, 2013.
- ^Firsching, Robert. 'Desperate Living'. Allmovie. Archived from the original on August 9, 2011. Retrieved September 27, 2012.
- ^Levy, Emanuel (July 14, 2015). Gay Directors, Gay Films?. Columbia University Press. ISBN978-0231152778.
- ^'Renay was a cult film favorite'. Variety. January 29, 2007. Retrieved July 4, 2020.
- ^Griffin, Chloe (January 10, 2014). Edgewise: A Picture of Cookie Mueller. b_books. p. 98. ISBN978-3-942214-20-9.
- ^Waters, John (1981). Shock Value: A Tasteful Book about Bad Taste. Dell Publishing Co., Inc. p. 167. ISBN0-440-57871-X.
- ^Maier, Robert (2011). Low Budget Hell: Making Underground Movies with John Waters. Full Page Publishing. pp. 116–122. ISBN978-0-9837708-0-0.
- ^Maier, Robert (2011). Low Budget Hell: Making Underground Movies with John Waters. Full Page Publishing. pp. 106–108. ISBN978-0-9837708-0-0.
- ^Waters, John (1981). Shock Value: A Tasteful Book about Bad Taste. Dell Publishing Co., Inc. p. 173. ISBN0-440-57871-X.
- ^Heller, Dana (2011). Hairspray. Malden, Massachusetts: Wiley-Blackwell. p. 17. ISBN978-1-4051-9162-3.
- ^Waters, John (1981). Shock Value: A Tasteful Book about Bad Taste. Dell Publishing Co., Inc. p. 162. ISBN0-440-57871-X.
- ^Desperate Living at Rotten Tomatoes
- ^Weisser, Thomas; Yuko Mihara Weisser (1998). Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. Miami: Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications. p. 241. ISBN1-889288-52-7.
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