April 8th, 2004
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| A reader, not an expert | | Join Date: January 11th, 2003 Location: Canada
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 Hey--we almost got our first trojan on OSX!
Slashdot is discussing a way a trojan can be disguised as an .mp3 file. Shamely (thanks Phillipe), it's only theoretical at this point Quote: | Nothing to see here, move along... It appears that this is merely a proof of concept virus, hence, it is utterly benign. It was not made with any malicious intent, but to demonstrate one way that OS X could be exploited. The discussion group is concerned with making OS X more secure, not less. Somehow, Intego got wind of it and blew it out of proportion, but I suppose it is theoretically possible that future viruses could be modeled on it. However I'm sure that Apple could, even more quickly, release a security update that fixes this
| posted by faux plastic on slashdot
And here I thought trojans were for protection. pfft. Where can I buy a windows machine?
Last edited by stief; April 8th, 2004 at 02:44 PM.
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