On Feb 16, 2006, at 11:48 AM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote: > So, I'm confused (not an unusual condition). Does one receive this > file > via email or via ichat and AIM or both? If via email, does creating a > mail rule to look for the file and put it in the trash resolve the > problem?
I looked at the information that's available on it, and here's what I think is true This is not a virus; it's a trojan. It uses "social engineering" rather than a weakness of the operating system to install itself. If you somehow get the file latestpics.tgz, you apparently have to do all of the following to infect your machine: (1) Decompress it by double-clicking it. (2) Double-click the decompressed file to look at the pictures. (3) Enter a supervisor password, when asked to do so. I don't know about you, but I never enter a supervisor password unless I'm pretty sure I'm doing something that requires it. Looking at some pictures isn't one of those things. Only people ignorant enough to do (3) will get infected. There's apparently no way you can just "catch" it off the Internet or from email. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2398 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20060216/0acfd3bd/attachment.bin
