[relug] [semi OT] Opener Malware for macosx
- From: Luca Bigliardi - shammash <shammash@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: RElug <relug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 19:26:24 +0200
rigiro da /. :
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| 'Opener' Malware Targets OS X |
| from the laugh-it-up-fuzzball dept. |
| posted by michael on Saturday October 23, @05:02 (OS X) |
| http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/23/0229241 |
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[0]the_webmaestro writes "[1]Macintouch.com is [2]covering the "opener"
malware, a new and potential vulnerability which affects [3]Mac OS X. If
true (it's not on [4]HoaxBusters yet), this could become a Mac user's
worst nightmare... Worse even than Microsoft Word [5]macro [6]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 [7]stories."
Discuss this story at:
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=04/10/23/0229241
Links:
0. http://homepage.mac.com/webmaestro/
1. http://macintouch.com/
2. http://macintouch.com/opener.html
3. http://www.apple.com/macosx/
4. http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/
5.
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/macro.viruses.html
6.
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/macro.viruses.overview.html
7. http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/28/0343241&tid=172
ciao
Luca
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