On Saturday, November 27, 2004, at 01:57 PM, Jerry Bryant wrote:

Being mildly paranoid, I downloaded clamXav, which is a free virus scanning program for the Mac. Just for kicks I scanned my OS X volumes. I really didn't expect to find anything and was surprised to see this turn up.

//Applications/iDVD 3/iDVD.app/Contents/Resources/209_Sky.theme/Contents/Resources/ BackgroundMovie.PALmov: Trojan.URL.spoof.gen FOUND

That's a false positive. That happens with 'signature' based AV. The actual McAfee name is Exploit.URLSpoof.gen, and it's a *Windows Only* IE exploit.


<http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100927.htm>


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