Just seen this <http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/top_news_item.cfm?NewsID=8664>
Andy
Slashdot has this to say:
http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/04/05/12/1840230.shtml?tid=126&tid=172&tid=179&tid=185&tid=190
Basically, it's "Public Beta available from Gnutella (using Limewire client) that isn't even announced on the manufacturer's website? As if!"
Social engineering at its most basic; Trojans have been doing this since the days of DOS. This particular one does not appear to be the "data file masquerading as an application" that Intego recently reckoned was potentially possible. It's just a straightforward scam with an icon copied from Microsoft.
It may also be possible that the sucker is a recent Mac convert - ever since System 7, it has been really easy to change an icon (select any image, copy it. Do Get info on the file (application or document) and click on the icon picture. Then paste. But then you all knew that :-) ) However, on Windows, it is quite hard (Shortcuts only; the image has to be in an icon file or an application or dll; but of the 1000 dll files in Windows, only about half a dozen actually contain icons).
A few thoughts... Alasdair
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