Mac Trojan Horse - That's the truth?
Mac Trojan Horse - That's the truth?
- Subject: Mac Trojan Horse - That's the truth?
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 06:47:58 EDT
The article at
http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2004/04/08/trojan/?lsrc=mcrss-0404
reads, "Intego warns the Trojan horse has the potential to delete all of a
user's personal files; send an e-mail message containing a copy of itself to
other users; and infect other MP3, JPEG, GIF or QuickTime files."
Yet Symantec reports, "MP3Concept is a proof-of-concept Trojan targetted at
the Mac OS X platform, that is currently not seen "in the wild." It is not
spreading or infecting Mac users. The proof-of-concept program does not contain
any malicious payload such as viral code, ablity to email itself or perform
destructive functions such as deleting files. It only contains code to display a
message box and mp3 audio data of a man laughing. See
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/mp3concept.html
So what's the truth? No Trojan horses are good, but how bad is this?
Gary Kampel
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