Woke up this morning to lots of report about a new virus or worm for Mac OS X that should be a big threat, called MacOS.Renepo.B or SH/Renepo-A. How exciting I thougth, the first real virus (not consept) in ages. And dove in to find out how to protect myself...
After reading the storys and the reports from Symantec and Sophos though I relaxed a little. It's not really a worm, but a script that needs to be run either by root or with root priviliges... not very threatning, after all if you just avoid giving the script your root password when it tries to execute...
After reading the storys and the reports from Symantec and Sophos though I relaxed a little. It's not really a worm, but a script that needs to be run either by root or with root priviliges... not very threatning, after all if you just avoid giving the script your root password when it tries to execute...
) will be bothered to write something that can exploit our systems.