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(Unverified)Nov 7th 2007 10:55PM

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@3/michael:
And now you know! Consider yourself properly educated.

The type of person to fall prey to this type of Trojan is going to muck up ANY system they're using:

The warning the Trojan displays looks nothing like an actual QuickTime error. QuickTime is improperly capitalized. QuickTime never displays "Click here to download an updated version of this codec." Though I haven't seen the Trojan in action, I highly doubt it shows the appropriate QuickTime loading screen.

If anything, this simply proves that OS X users should educate themselves in ways of avoiding malware. The Activity Viewer window in Safari is your friend: If a video is actually embedded in the page, it will show up in the Activity Viewer. If you're not using Safari, View Source should suffice.

You shouldn't have "Open files considered safe" turned on in Safari. To a lot of people, the fact that Safari triggers Disk Utility inspires a false sense of confidence.

And common sense never hurts: Ultracodec? Really? I've never heard of that one before.

"If in doubt, Google it to find out."

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