On Feb 21, 2006, at 2:04 PM, Matthew Laderer wrote:
The IT guy at my company just informed us of a worm
that's been designed to infiltrate a hole (I *think*)
through OS X's bluetooth subroutines. It doesn't
actually do anything, it's just a proof of concept,
but it's the first sign that our days of not needing
antivirus software may be coming to an end. It hit
the web sometime this morning, and since it's a worm,
it doesn't wait for you to let it into your system
(i.e. though an email attachment or something
similar).
Just a friendly FYI :)
That would be this one:
<http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/osxinqtanab.html>
What Sohos DOESN'T say is that was sent to another AV firm, F-Prot as
a proof-of-concept, has never existed 'in the wild', and utilizes a
bluetooth vulnerability that Apple patched last May, and moreover,
requires you first, to be within BT range of an infected system,
second to accept the file from this unknown entity connecting to your
computer, and finally running the payload.
So, to protect me from a non-existent threat, Sophos prevented me
from using MS Office. :-/
Meanwhile, our mail server has stopped 290 different Windows viruses
from 284 different hosts since midnight.
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