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Friday, May 14, 2004 - Posts

Mac Trojan Masquerades as MS Word Installer

A system is only as secure as its user base is careful.  Remember those old VBS trojans?  Here's a Mac version using AppleScript.

A new Trojan horse, created just for Mac OS X , has been discovered in the wild.
Earlier this week, Macworld UK reported that one of its readers downloaded from LimeWire what looked to be an installer for a demo version of Microsoft Word 2004 for Macintosh , part of Microsoft's soon-to-be-released Office 2004. However, when the reader double-clicked the file, it erased everything in his home folder.

http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/33790.html

posted Friday, May 14, 2004 10:00 AM by richard.dudley




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