Got this email below from a friend at work. It's a good reminder that the Mac is not in fact immune to viruses. It's just that so far nobody has really spent a lot of effort making a good Mac virus, all the hackers are focused on Windows.
The news about this Mac virus also got posted to a couple other sites: http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/answerstips/story/0,24330,3664271,00. html http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1081455881.html --- Rex. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mac Os's first trojan... http://www.intego.com/news/pr40.html The Trojan horse's code is encapsulated in the ID3 tag of an MP3 (digital music) file. This code is in reality a hidden application that can run on any Macintosh computer running Mac OS X. Mac OS X displays the icon of the MP3 file, with an .mp3 extension, rather than showing the file as an application, leading users to believe that they can double-click the file to listen to it. But double clicking the file launches the hidden code, which can damage or delete files on computers running Mac OS X, then iTunes to play the music contained in the file, to make users think that it is really an MP3 file . While the first versions of this Trojan horse that Intego has isolated are benign, this technique opens the door to more serious risks. - --Ian - -- Ian Holsman Director Network Management Systems CNET Networks PH: 415-344-2608 (USA) /(++61) 3-9857-3742 (Australia) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iD8DBQFAdc2Kq3pgvCz4ZCcRAvuVAJ9OolnbCCXlwKhajiPXsWZ9yrFGFgCeI54n uSf3X24XkJTIm4hHCncP6EA= =fgh9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be April 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
