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Mac OS X Trojan Horse Infects MP3s
frequnkn writes "The Mac News Network reports that Intego has anounced an update to their anti-virus app for snagging the first Mac OS X Trojan horse, MP3Concept (MP3Virus.Gen), which exploits a weakness in Mac OS X where applications can appear to be other types of files."
Does my speculation about the RIAA's involvement in the creation of an MP3 trojan put me in the tin foil hat crowd?
.. and I just bought a G4 PowerBook too!
That's it, I'm selling this, maybe I'll get one of those Sparc laptops instead..
- Cowboy
what, what?
That noise you heard was all the mac zealots falling of their soapboxes. ;-)
j/k, who loves ya baby!
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur
I thought in unix, everything was just a file!
"Quoting famous computer scientists out of context is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming." - K
I'm switching to Windows!
What kind of OS X user would be caught dead using such ancient, PC-originated technology (and I use that term loosely) as an MP3?
It's bad enough that they'll be shunned by all their iPod-wearing, dual-CPU-owning, Mac cabal member friends, but now their computer get pwned? Talk about kicking them while they're down.
True story.
They get viruses when you ship them? Maybe sealing the box a little better could help?
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Surely nobody will enter an admin password requested by an ".mp3" file.
:-)
you must not have met the users on my network.
This virus sucks unless it has ogg support. Jeez! Mac OS X is so lame..
On of the many woes of being a Mac user is that we do not have the multitude of viral applications that Windows users have. Now that we have our first trojan, we are on the path of being like Windows users. However, it is my fear like most Windows applications, we are going to have to wait months and months before we get our next one...
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
I chose the Trojan over the virus. My bloodwork came back negative, so it seems to have worked.
It is a real concept. There is an example of the trojan, or "virus" (sic), here: http://www.scoop.se/~blgl/virus.mp3.sit
I just tried downloading that file on my machine and it was completely harmless - in fact, the OS wouldn't even let me open it automatically without having to manually select an application.
I love Windows XP...
Microsoft today palced a strange ad in the Seatle times classifieds. The ad called for programmers with mac experience who have no scruples about developing malicious software.
I tried for 5 years to come up with a clever sig...only to realize that I am not clever.
That's also about how long it takes for you to get new games, isn't it?
That's why I have a 'toy' computer as well that runs Windows to play games.
No, no, that wasn't a virus, just 10.3.2. (Note to would be flamers - I have a mac and love it!)
Hey hey hey! no fair. 10.2.6 was NOT a virus, it was an update...gotta keep our terminology straight here...
The same reason there is "N'Sync".
"Some people see the glass as half empty. I see the glass as half full... of lead, chlorine, and deadly micro-organisms"
Better bone up on your biology. You ain't gonna find deadly micro-organisms in a glass half-full of chlorine and lead.
Wow, a /. AC said it and provided no links or examples whatsoever, so it must be true!
This kind of reminds me of adding extensions to the resource fork of otherwise innocuous system files in system 7-9.
One April Fools Day I installed a completely juvenile little extension called "Mouseturds" on my roommate's computer. But inside of "Mouseturds" I inserted an extension that reversed all of the text in the system. Inside of another file in the system (I believe it was directly in the Finder), I installed a second instance of the text-flipping extension.
When he first started using his computer, all of the text looked normal, but his mouse kept doing this terribly juvenile thing. "Cute, really cute." He said, removing that extension. You can't imagine his befuddlement when upon rebooting all of his text was sdrawkcab, simply for having cleaned his system. In the next few hours he drew up all sorts of crazy theories about dependencies, mounting extensions from the trash can, automatically installing programs when something is removed, and a mythical hidden second system folder. I didn't have the heart to tell him to watch the extensions list on the startup screen more carefully, but I didn't have the jaw if he decided to start swinging. He was not at all amused.
Moral of the story: No one thing is ever one thing on an apple system.
Other moral of the story: Never take a smart-alec joker as a roommate.
The ______ Agenda
Ah yes, the "Wintendo"
I used to have one of those too, but the BSOD's got too much to deal with, even for gaming. So, I stick to RTCW and get my aggressions out that way (same nick there as well)
Wait, we have games now? Shit, there goes my productivity.
omnia tua castra sunt nobis
Me, I am waiting for a personal phone call from Steve Jobs before I believe any of this anti-mac hype. Steve would never sell me a product that was not as asbolutely perfect as he is.
...on Windows... I pre-ordered the port once I heard about it...
Now if only Duke Nukem Forever would drop...
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