Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/08/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My question was to name one that has infected a Mac in the wild. Of course it's possible to devise one, and they have been. I'll leave the Trojan/virus differentiation to others better equipped. There were questions about whether they "found" it or commissioned it;^) I'm sure we will have them some day, but we're still waiting. I think there was some question about Sophos reports being a little self-serving and more accounts of their software causing problems than preventing them. Ric On Aug 28, 2007, at 7:07 PM, Mark Welch wrote: > Here is one. This hails from securemac.com. Yes I love/use Mac's > too. In fact I am typing this on a dual G5 PowerMac. They are not > impervious though. > > "2.16.2006 News > Mac OS X Virus Alert - Sophos Anti Virus has found the first 'real > virus' for Mac OS X known as OSX/Leap-A or OSX/Oompa-A. The OSX/ > Leap worm or trojan is spread via instant messenger forwarding > itself as a file named 'latestpics.tgz'. When launched the worm > attempts to spread via iChat sending itself to the users buddy > list. The application will also try to infect the recently used > applications." > > Mark > > >> From: Ric Carter <ricc@mindspring.com> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: New iMac question >> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:27:25 -0400 >> >> How about name one that has infected a Mac in the last 5 years