[muglo] Re: MacOSX worm

Pictures shouldn't ever require you to enter you password.
Don't accept files from other people unless you are expecting them.

Be aware, but don't get worried quite yet.  This is a poorly crafted  
piece of malware, that barely qualifies as a worm.  It requires YOU  
to do things to get it to run.

Dave

On 17-Feb-06, at 14:22, doug rogers wrote:

>> Message: 4
>> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 00:06:06 -0500
>> From: "Gary (Lists)" <listout@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: Mac OS X 'worm' Alert
>> To: AppleScript Users <applescript-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Message-ID: <C01AC3EE.A74C%listout@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
>>
>>
>> As a heads up, for anyone who may not have noticed the Reuters
>> story, there
>> is a Macintosh OSX "worm" alert.
>>
>> For those with limited web access, here is the brief text from
>> Reuters, as
>> well as a link to the story.
>>
>> I suppose we will all need to be grow more alert ourselves, into
>> the future,
>> with a rapidly changing (and increasingly better) Mac landscape.
>>
>> Please share this with your Mac-user colleagues, departments, IT
>> centers,
>> NOCs and other relevant Mac users (friends, family...especially
>> younger
>> users of iChat and AIM, two of the vectors for this infection.)
>>
>> ======
>> SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A malicious computer worm has been found
>> that
>> targets Apple Computer Inc.'s Mac OS X operating system, believed
>> to be the
>> first such virus aimed specifically at the Mac platform.
>>
>> The worm is called OSX/Leap-A, according to a posting on the Web
>> site of
>> antivirus software company Sophos, which said the worm is spread
>> via instant
>> messaging programs.
>>
>> The worm attempts to spread via Apple's iChat instant messaging
>> program,
>> which is compatible with America Online's popular AIM instant
>> messaging
>> program, according to the Sophos Web site.
>>
>> The worm sends itself to available contacts on the infected users'
>> buddy
>> list in a file called "latestpics.tgz," according to the Sophos Web
>> site.
>>
>> The vast majority of malicious hacks are aimed at Microsoft Corp.'s
>> Windows
>> operating system and some of its products, largely because
>> Microsoft has
>> more than 90 percent of the market for computer operating systems.
>>
>> "This first Macintosh OS X threat is an example of the continuing
>> spread of
>> malicious code on to other platforms," said Vincent Weafer, senior
>> director
>> at Symantec Security Response, in a statement.
>>
>> The worm will not automatically infect Mac computers, but will ask
>> users to
>> accept the file, Weafer said.
>>
>> Symantec ranked the new worm as a Level 1 threat (with 5 being the
>> most
>> severe).
>>
>> An Apple spokesperson was not immediately available to comment.
>> ======
>>
>> Section URL:
>>
>> <http://today.reuters.com/news/newsChannel.aspx?type=technologyNews>
>>
>> Full URL:
>>
>> <http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?
>> type=technologyNews&storyID=
>> 2006-02-17T020813Z_01_N16227596_RTRUKOC_0_US-APPLE-VIRUS.xml>
>>
>> --
>> Gary
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