Re: OS X Viruses...
Re: OS X Viruses...
- Subject: Re: OS X Viruses...
- From: "Randy B. Singer" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 22:42:14 -0700
Matt Johnston said:
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On Sunday, July 28, 2002, at 07:02 , Randy B. Singer wrote:
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> I haven't heard of a single confirmed (or otherwise) instance of the
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> existence of a virus which can infect OS X. (Excluding Macro viruses
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> and
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> Classic viruses.) If you know of one, I would very much appreciate a
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> citation. None of the anti-viral software developers list one in their
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> archives.
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There are some malicious scripts, both of the AppleScript type and the
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Shell or Perl Script type that will affect Mac OS X.
Thank you for the response, Matt, but as near as I can see, all of the
sitations that you point out are about hypothetical situations, not
viruses that are running around in the wild, no matter how easy they
might be to write.
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For AppleScript
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http://home.earthlink.net/~stoba/AStrojan.html
I've run across this type of Web site before. Could anyone possibly be
more imbecilic than to put up a Web page that tells folks what it would
take to write malicious code, complete with examples?! Anyone that
unbelievably asinine should be euthanized.
Randy B. Singer
Co-Author of: The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th and 6th editions)
Claiming that the Macintosh is inferior to Windows because most people
use Windows, is like saying that all other restaurants serve food that is
inferior to McDonalds'.
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