Re: Can iTunes run AppleScript as well as Trojan code?
Re: Can iTunes run AppleScript as well as Trojan code?
- Subject: Re: Can iTunes run AppleScript as well as Trojan code?
- From: Graff <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 04:01:31 -0400
On Apr 9, 2004, at 3:18 AM, Martin Orpen wrote:
on 9/4/04 5:52 am, Graff at email@hidden wrote:
I believe that this actually doesn't have to do with iTunes, it has to
do with a clash between meta-data and file extensions.
They guy who wrote the trojan example called "virus.mp3" stated:
"Interesting things I discovered: iTunes 2 on Mac OS 9 and iTunes 4 on
Mac OS X both ignore file types; they will open the file, taste it,
find valid ID3 information followed by an MPEG data stream, and happily
proceed to play it."
[from: comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc - Subject: Re: Sorta-RFC-ish:
Virus in
MP3? (was Re: mp3 flood uploads)]
What I meant was that iTunes won't allow the trojan to run. It will
see the trojan as an MP3 file and treat it as such but it won't
contribute toward the trojan application running and spreading. Only a
launcher program such as the Finder will run the trojan.
- Ken
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