Advice Request Why Kaspersky warning me about PHP trojans on a Mac?

[dailyxe]

Hi guys,

I have a question regarding PHP Trojans on a Mac. I have downloaded a website's home directory which has been hacked to my local Mac. On this Mac I am running Kaspersky Internet Security which ran a check on the downloaded folder and it indicated that there were 3 PHP trojans (Trojan.PHP.Agent.pg) in this folder.
My understanding is, that the PHP Trojan can only be harmful to a system, if it can be executed. Therefore:

1. Can my MacBook interpret the PHP code and actually get harmed?
2. If not, is Kaspersky just warning me due to pattern matching? Would it therefore also warn me for Windows Maleware - or is it just one common database and they do not differentiate which operating system one is using?

 

[harlan4096]

I can answer to the 2nd: I think that would be a yes, no matter the operating system, I'm quite sure that KIS4MAC will detect also Windows virus... but in these case probably a malicious code which may run in different platforms...

 

[00alex00]

Probably just a generic name, and if certain malware components match the ones associated with trojan.php, this name pops up.