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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."
Ha!
Muhahahahha keep thinking that!
Religion is a gateway psychosis. -- Dave Foley
Stop, take a deep breath. The rest of us know this is a BS proof of concept proggy. We know OS X is way more secure than the 'doze. We know your love for your OS is justified. It's more-or-less a weak /. article. It happens for the rest of us all the time. :)
All is well.
Yeah, but proof of concept viruses are not all that hard to add payloads too. I laugh at all you mac groupies, thinking you don't have to worry about security because "there aren't mac viruses." Even the super-god-like-BSD people have to deal with security once in a while. With all the nerds sending their famalies to macs to keep them safe from viruses, it's only a matter of time before your inbox is clogged with "OSX 10.4 upgrade attached open now" emails along with all the other junk. No OS is perfectly safe out of the box, not even your obsecure OSX. Welcome to patching. Get used to it, or all your Oddly-shapen boxes will are belong to us. Why don't use linux instead, that's still safe. Just shut off SSH and you'll be fine.
SAILING MISHAP
It's just a lot harder to exploit all of these things on Mac OS X for numerous logistical, technical, and statistical reasons.
I predict that QuickTime will be the InternetExploder of OSX. It's installed on everyone's machine, it's very hard to remove, it doesn't verify input, it's not open source, it autoplays content on the web, it's a big black box waiting to be exploited.
To quote my girlfriends mother talking about John Ashcroft, "I hope their [Members of the RIAA] stomachs explode and the devil comes take them".
I'm confused. Was she talking about Ashcroft, or the RIAA?
I'm not a big fan of either, but when you start lumping separate groups into one big nefarious "them", you're on your way to the tin foil hat crowd.
One virus or Trojan every three years? I can stand that.
Can you understand that past performance does not indicate future performance?
Also your sample size is questionable. Classic Mac OS' history is irrelevant to Mac OS X. Mac OS X is a far more interesting and potentially lucrative target. It combines a highly capable Unix environment (home turf/holy grail for hackers) with a usually unsophisticated (wrt security) users who have no admin to watch over them. This is only the beginning, get used to that.
wait, people on slashdot have girlfriends??!!