Hmmm, first virus for OS X
Feb. 18th, 2006 11:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ibnekohttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4723390.stm
"It travels in a file called "latestpics.tgz" and only version 10.4 of OS X is vulnerable to it."
Apparently, from what I can figure out, it's really just a shell script (think Terminal) with the picture of a JPEG icon file pasted onto it. -.-;;; And it's not the first of it's kind; there's been other such things, including Opener noted here.
"It travels in a file called "latestpics.tgz" and only version 10.4 of OS X is vulnerable to it."
Apparently, from what I can figure out, it's really just a shell script (think Terminal) with the picture of a JPEG icon file pasted onto it. -.-;;; And it's not the first of it's kind; there's been other such things, including Opener noted here.
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Date: 2006-02-18 11:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-19 07:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-19 06:15 pm (UTC)you think the airport workers will say anything about it as it's going through that scanner thing?
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Date: 2006-02-19 07:30 pm (UTC)Nah. Trust me, they won't~