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Mac Trojan Horse Disguised as Word 2004

Posted by pudge on from the caveat-pirator dept.

Espectr0 writes "Macworld is alerting of a malware program for the Mac. A Macworld reader alerted the magazine to the malware after he downloaded the file from Limewire. The reader told Macworld: 'I downloaded the file in the hope that perhaps Microsoft had released some sort of public beta. The file unzipped, and to my delight the Microsoft icon looked genuine and trustworthy.' However, he added: 'I clicked on the installer file, and to my horror in 10 seconds the attachment had wiped my entire Home folder!'" This sounds similar to the recent trojan horse proof-of-concept. There are many ways to make one file look like another, on any platform. This is 2004, you should know by now not to open a file from an untrusted source.

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  1. Go cry to someone else!!!! by g0bshiTe · · Score: 0, Troll

    Go cry to someone other than me. There are only more trojans for Windows than I have hair on my head. :P

    Be glad it didn't fry your hardware, or make you download kiddie porn, or make you DoS SCO, or the FBI. Be glad I tell you, and beware that free software ye be tryin to get matie.

    BTW knowing the history between Gates and Jobs, what in the hell made you think M$ would release something for the OS/x platform?
    Is your BIOS fried?

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  2. Re:don't be dumb billy. by nine-times · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm sure it wasn't even a virus. Probably just a script that said "rm -rd ~/*" or something. On MacOS, you can pretty much make a script like that, give it whatever icon, and leave it lying around for dumb people.

    Doesn't matter how good the OS is if the user is stupid enough to run a script like that.

  3. Re:Think first by david.gilbert · · Score: 0, Troll

    You're new around here, aren't you?

  4. Re:Macs. Secure. Wha?? by mackstann · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well, as usual, pudge has to add his 2 cents, which, as always, consists of some comment in defense of Apple. Pudge, why can't you just post the news like (some) other people (some of the time), and leave your opinions out of it?

  5. Re:This has nothing to do with Apple? by the_2nd_coming · · Score: 0, Troll

    that is not the SUDO dialogue dork.

    that is the dialogue that lets you install shit and it does not give you any privileges to trash system files or other user files.

    you want to run as root? you have to LOG IN AS ROOT.

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  6. Re:New paradigm? by AKAImBatman · · Score: 0, Troll

    That's a special Windows driver that comes with Adobe. AFAIK, it has nothing to do with OpenOffice.

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