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First Mac OS X trojan in the wild
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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Subscribe to commentstankFeb 16th 2006 11:59AM
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.