Re: Mac Trojan Horse - That's the truth?
Re: Mac Trojan Horse - That's the truth?
- Subject: Re: Mac Trojan Horse - That's the truth?
- From: "Anthony D. Saxton" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 14:18:44 -0700
Simply put... This isn't really a Trojan Horse... It's more like a
programming lesson on how to display a message and play a sound through
a UNIX executable. It does nothing destructive (would require
Administrative Password) nor does it propagate which would require
Apple's Mail program to accept scripting which it currently does not.
Anthony D. Saxton
President
The Las Vegas Macintosh User's Group
http://www.lvmug.com
On Apr 11, 2004, at 04:14 AM, email@hidden wrote:
On 11 Apr 2004, at 11:47, email@hidden wrote:
So what's the truth? No Trojan horses are good, but how bad is this?
It exposes a potential problem which has existed almost since the
beginning of the Mac - certainly on anything post system 7.
It's nothing to panic about. Don't go and throw money at anti-virus
vendors (especially small, attention-seeking, hysteria-provoking
anti-virus companies like Intego) because of an irrational fear. Let's
see what Apple has to say about it. Rumblings from the jungle say they
are going to issue a fix.
M
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