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'Opener' Malware Targets OS X

Posted by michael on from the laugh-it-up-fuzzball dept.

the_webmaestro writes "Macintouch.com is covering the "opener" malware, a new and potential vulnerability which affects Mac OS X. If true (it's not on HoaxBusters yet), this could become a Mac user's worst nightmare... Worse even than Microsoft Word macro viruses (heretofore the only real 'viruses' which threatened Mac users)! Normally, when ever I'd see virus alerts, I'd revel in the fact that as a Mac user, I was immune (except for the slow-down of the net, the loss in productivity of my colleagues, and the increase in SPAM--often coming from my friends and colleagues). [Sigh] Perhaps, my days of telling friends and family that there are no viruses for Macs may be coming to an end. There have been stories."

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  1. Re:security through obscurity. great move, kasparo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The real but abridged story of Icarus and Daedalus

    Ovid wrote that Daedalus was a skilled architect-inventor-sculptor highly respected in his hometown of Athens. But human as he was, he became jealous of his nephew Talus, and killed him. Daedalus was exiled to Crete to serve King Minos, where he eventually had a son, Icarus. Minos had imprisoned Daedalus & Icarus in a great Labyrinth. To escape from the Labyrinth and from Crete, Daedalus designed sets of wings made of feathers and wax for him and his son.

    Before flying to freedom he warned Icarus not to fly too low - for his wings would touch the water and get wet - nor too high - for the sun could melt the wax. But young Icarus, overwhelmed by the thrill of flying, ignored his father's warning and flew higher and higher, envisioning himself as the gods. As he flew higher and higher, the wax in his wings melted from the heat of the sun, and he fell into the sea, killing himself.

  2. The only truly safe computer on the Internet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The SafeIC achieves this by making it impossible for malware to affect modifications to the system. Every time you restart your Safe Internet Computer, it is wiped clean of any malware and reset to factory settings. A clean slate, every day.

    http://www.cyber.com.au/cyber/product/safe_interne t_computer/

  3. Re:Parent is a goatse troll by metlin · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Obviously!

    HYBTT --> Have you been trolled today :-)

    On Usenet when spent enough time you have, attain you shall enlightenment, young paduwan.

  4. Re: FUD... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Cost, not costed.

    Past tense of Cost is Cost.

    ~m

  5. Re:Mac owners are like Volvo drivers... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    BSD is now training wheels?

    Wow.