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Re: [Full-Disclosure] Trojan Horse for Mac OS X



The last Trojan hose, and or anything virus related for that matter, was 3 years ago. A email was circulated around that contained a Apple script. The email said "Click here for your favorite Simpson's episode." Needless to say quite a few people did, and it erased their hard drives. This technique wouldn't work now because Mail.app, and probably all modern mail client. Will not let you execute code from within the mail client.
This current Trojan horse is benine and is more a proof of concept then anything.


Cheers,
Tom

On Apr 9, 2004, at 10:41 AM, Alerta Redsegura wrote:

From Intego's press release (April 8 2004):

"...the first Trojan horse that affects Mac OS X. This Trojan horse,
MP3Concept (MP3Virus.Gen), exploits a weakness in Mac OS X where
applications can appear to be other types of files..."

(http://www.intego.com/news/pr40.html)


Anyone aware of previous Trojan horses for OS X?


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