Re: trojan horse for Mac os x - Of course it Microsoft related
Re: trojan horse for Mac os x - Of course it Microsoft related
- Subject: Re: trojan horse for Mac os x - Of course it Microsoft related
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 18:34:45 -0500
On 5/12/04 4:13 PM, "Joseph Weaks" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Ok, setting aside the whole "it's your own 6@5^ fault for trying to
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download a pirated copy of software" issue (no I don't believe he was
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just looking for a demo), it wouldn't have to be done using Unix rm...
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it can be accomplished in vanilla as well.
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Regardles, isn't the home folder contents about as bad as this avenue
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could get? Wouldn't anything further "upstream" in the file system
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require authentication?
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Am I really supposed to feel sorry for the guy who lost his Home
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directory? Did he really think the Word installer was that small? Maybe
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Billy got a copy of Matt's book and wrote the applet and uploaded it
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himself. hehe
Not at all. If the person running it is an administrator on that machine,
you can then insert a startup item into /Library/StartupItems which will run
as root. As long as the script is run by an admin user, you're set. Then, on
the next reboot, well...who do you want to bone today?
john
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"si hoc legere scis nimium eruditiones habes."
("if you can read this, you're overeducated.")
Jeff La Grua
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