On 17/02/2006, at 9:18 AM, Martin Hill wrote:
Well it has finally happened after all these years of commentators
crying
wolf.
The first bit of malware that attempts to spread itself to other
Mac users
has finally arrived on the scene. Note this is not technically a
virus as
many articles are saying but it is also not just a simple trojan as
some Mac
users are saying.
Check out this article at
http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/02/17/leapafollow/index.php?lsrc=mwrss
It seems that the iChat exploit does not work over the Internet -
only over Bonjour; and the ability to render Cocoa apps unlaunchable
is restricted to those which are own by the user (i,e, by installed
by drag and drop), not those which have been installed with an
installer. It seems to have taken several hours of hard work for the
author to get the trojan to do anything at all.
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