Filed under: Security, Macintosh
First Mac OS X trojan in the wild
by Jordan Running Feb 16th 2006 at 11:00AM
It was nothing if not inevitable: Mac Rumors
is reporting that the first virus targeting Mac OS X has been spotted in the wild. The site is
careful to classify the virus as a trojan because it doesn't exploit any hole in the OS but instead tricks the victim
into executing it. The trojan spreads by masquerading as an archive called "latestpics.tgz" containing
screenshots of OS X 10.5 Leopard. The archive contains a files presents themselves with a standards JPEG icon but is in
fact an executable that, when opened, infects other executable files on the machine. Once executed, the trojan spreads
itself via iChat. Sophos has named the virus "OSX/Leap-A" and given it a low prevalence rating.[Via Waxy.org]
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Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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tank said 11:59AM on 2-16-2006
The OS flags this as an application and asks for your administrator password before launching. Anybody stupid enough to enter their password after double clicking on what looks like a jpg deserves to be infected.
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