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Title: NOT GOOD AT ALL .......!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Post by: waterproof on February 17, 2006, 10:28:08 pm Check it out ...
http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/02/16/oompa/index.php Title: Re: NOT GOOD AT ALL .......!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Post by: Civrock on February 17, 2006, 10:50:31 pm You can prevent such dangerous pieces of code to cause any harm by using an organ called "brain". I mean, who'd type in his admin password to open a picture? And I didn't even know the file's 2.3GB big until I saw a screencapture of it... lol
(http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/cultofmac/osxleapa.jpg) And as Apple already replied: “Leap-A is not a virus, it is malicious software that requires a user to download the application and execute the resulting file,” said Apple. “Apple always advises Macintosh users to only accept files from vendors and Web sites that they know and trust. We have a guide to safely handling files received from the Internet at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=108009.” Title: Re: NOT GOOD AT ALL .......!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Post by: Po~ReverendMoss on February 17, 2006, 11:08:32 pm a virus (trojan) which only passes through iChat, which asks to be downloaded, then needs to be upacked before it does it's nefarious bidnezz.
Totally unimpressed. Surely they can do better. Title: Re: NOT GOOD AT ALL .......!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Post by: Macuber on February 17, 2006, 11:30:58 pm Well this is my personal opinion after only briefly reviewing the chat
about it... This isn't a virus, not by proper definition anyway. It's simply a piece of malware - a program that can do nothing automatically or without user interaction. A virus is a program that is semi or even fully autonomous. When you launch Photoshop, by double clicking it, you get a cool environment for manipulating images. When you launch this little ditty, by double clicking it, you get a program that replicates itself and tries to do some other things - a couple of things which also require an Admin pass to be entered. The only viral thing about it, it appears, is that it uses trickery to get the first launch to started by the user, and then leads the user through the steps necessary to get it to do the rest of it's thing(s). Kinda like most other email attachments, my answer to customers would probably be, "Don't freaking double-click shit that you don't know from whence it came" Or, on the other hand, for the sake of our service department revenue, I might tell them, "Hell yeah, double click on stuff you don't know about! I do it all the time...like when I receive something from a person I've never even heard of I'm really interested in seeing the pictures he's sending me!" Then I quote our service labor rate for fixing stuff. Title: Re: NOT GOOD AT ALL .......!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Post by: Ethion on February 17, 2006, 11:33:16 pm MacUber, as a number of sites has alredy mentioned. And Civic in the spam thread.
It's more of a Trojan than a malware. |