On Feb 17, 2006, at 12:11 AM, Tom Baker wrote:
Here's the OS-X virus story on the Sophos website: <http://
www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2006/02/macosxleap.html>
Sophos sells anti-virus software. Are they just trying to drum up
business here?
Yes. They're being much more sensationalistic than the case
warrants...this is largely a proof-of-concept trojan, poorly written
at that. It's trying to be a virus, but fails on several points.
Ambrosia.com has a good writeup of the thing in their forum.
It's valuable in pointing out that 90% of the time the greatest
security risk to a computer is positioned between the chair and the
keyboard. This requires several affirmative steps to accomplish, and
along about the time a jpeg asks for your admin password, you really
should be suspicious.
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