Re: Mac OS X 'worm' Alert
Re: Mac OS X 'worm' Alert
- Subject: Re: Mac OS X 'worm' Alert
- From: <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 1:52:04 -0800
Heads up. The boogie man is outside in the dark, so please stay inside tonight. Maybe someone can write an applescript to scare him off.
thx
RLC
>
> From: "Gary (Lists)" <email@hidden>
> Date: 2006/02/16 Thu PM 09:06:06 PST
> To: AppleScript Users <email@hidden>
> Subject: Mac OS X 'worm' Alert
>
>
> As a heads up, for anyone who may not have noticed the Reuters story, there
> is a Macintosh OSX "worm" alert.
>
> For those with limited web access, here is the brief text from Reuters, as
> well as a link to the story.
>
> I suppose we will all need to be grow more alert ourselves, into the future,
> with a rapidly changing (and increasingly better) Mac landscape.
>
> Please share this with your Mac-user colleagues, departments, IT centers,
> NOCs and other relevant Mac users (friends, family...especially younger
> users of iChat and AIM, two of the vectors for this infection.)
>
> ======
> SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A malicious computer worm has been found that
> targets Apple Computer Inc.'s Mac OS X operating system, believed to be the
> first such virus aimed specifically at the Mac platform.
>
> The worm is called OSX/Leap-A, according to a posting on the Web site of
> antivirus software company Sophos, which said the worm is spread via instant
> messaging programs.
>
> The worm attempts to spread via Apple's iChat instant messaging program,
> which is compatible with America Online's popular AIM instant messaging
> program, according to the Sophos Web site.
>
> The worm sends itself to available contacts on the infected users' buddy
> list in a file called "latestpics.tgz," according to the Sophos Web site.
>
> The vast majority of malicious hacks are aimed at Microsoft Corp.'s Windows
> operating system and some of its products, largely because Microsoft has
> more than 90 percent of the market for computer operating systems.
>
> "This first Macintosh OS X threat is an example of the continuing spread of
> malicious code on to other platforms," said Vincent Weafer, senior director
> at Symantec Security Response, in a statement.
>
> The worm will not automatically infect Mac computers, but will ask users to
> accept the file, Weafer said.
>
> Symantec ranked the new worm as a Level 1 threat (with 5 being the most
> severe).
>
> An Apple spokesperson was not immediately available to comment.
> ======
>
> Section URL:
>
> <http://today.reuters.com/news/newsChannel.aspx?type=technologyNews>
>
> Full URL:
>
> <http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=
> 2006-02-17T020813Z_01_N16227596_RTRUKOC_0_US-APPLE-VIRUS.xml>
>
> --
> Gary
>
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