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."

Comments

Conspiracy?

[Kris Thalamus]

Does my speculation about the RIAA's involvement in the creation of an MP3 trojan put me in the tin foil hat crowd?

Damn, viruses on OS X

[CkB_Cowboy]

.. 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

That's it!

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm switching to Windows!

Mac? MP3?

[Deraj DeZine]

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.

Re:Mac? MP3?

[SHEENmaster]

What kind of UNIX user would be caught dead using such ancient, PC-originated technology (and I use that term loosely) as a file extension? It's bad enough that they'll be shunned by all their intercal-coding, 8-way-server-owning, Sun cabal member friends, but now their distant cousin's computer get pwned? Talk about kicking them while they're down.

Re:How does this work?

[bbdd]

Surely nobody will enter an admin password requested by an ".mp3" file.

you must not have met the users on my network. :-)

Ogg?

[goMac2500]

This virus sucks unless it has ogg support. Jeez! Mac OS X is so lame..

About freaking time!!!

[toupsie]

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...

Re:Statistics

[Anonymous Coward]

I chose the Trojan over the virus. My bloodwork came back negative, so it seems to have worked.

Re:Statistics

[lobsterturd]

That's why I have a 'toy' computer as well that runs Windows to play games.

Re:Ironic the Intego released a solution fast enou

[edgar_is_good]

No, no, that wasn't a virus, just 10.3.2. (Note to would be flamers - I have a mac and love it!)

Vaguely reminds me of extension masquerading

[cgenman]

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.

Re:Statistics

[cappadocius]

That's also about how long it takes for you to get new games, isn't it?

Wait, we have games now? Shit, there goes my productivity.