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Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 4:29 pm Post subject: Mac OSX Trojan (MacOS/MW2004)

Just a copy and paste....

Quote:
This trojan was distributed in a file called "Microsoft Word 2004 OSX
Web Install", hence the name. (Note - the name can be easily changed and
alone can be an indicator of neither malware presence nor absence).

The trojan contains a short malicious OS-X script (Unix script, in
fact). When run the program executes this malicious script which
performs a recursive deletion of all the files belonging to the current
user. This deletes the trojan file too.

It is a simple trojan of "bang-you-are-dead" type and it is not using
any vulnerabilities in Mac OS-X.

This trojan is not a threat on any Macintosh computers running OS
Version 9 or below.

http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_125299.htm

Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 7:31 pm Post subject:

Thus far I believe you're only vulnerable in OSX if you do something stupid like download warez off of Limewire, which BTW admitted to having spyware in their program.

Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 8:21 pm Post subject:

I believe this one is also emailed out with a link.

Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 6:26 am Post subject:

scarecrow wrote:
I believe this one is also emailed out with a link.

Ahh. See, I completely forget about email borne nasties ever since I started using MailWasher to preview my inbox. There was a similar app for OSX which the name slips my mind at the moment.