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The First Mac OS X Virus?
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It has taken the media a while to pick it up which is surprising. There still doesnt seem to be any mention of it on CNN, NeoWin (Windows fan site) although OS News and /. both picked it up fairly early. Reuters doesnt seem to have it yet or Forbes. Just big for us at this stage I guessFiveos22 said:
50thVert said:
You are not the first person in this thread to say that. But I'll respond anyway. You are absolutely incorrect. There have been multiple Trojan horses for OS X for years. This is nothing new.
This was posted in this thread on post #12.Laser47 said:
Sometimes I think these threads get waaaay toooooo loooooong. The same info gets posted over and over. And I don't blame people. I know I haven't read the whole thread (I might have read 20% of it). It's just too long.
manu chao said:
Yeah, I forgot that smart folders aren't really folders, just saved searches that look like folders.
http://osnews.com/permalink.php?news_id=13695&comment_id=96333 has to be my favourite comment about this whole thing. Well said!
puuukeey said:
arn should be able to if internet companies help. i wasw reading the faq earlier and it said that they wouldn't accept free e-mail accounts, so if his e-mail is lasthope@mac.com (no evidence for that, probably not real) then arn tells apple, apple has credit card info, the world knows, the federal prosecuters come in. It will be easy. Don't worry. he WILL be exposed.
How bout you get off our forums, mmkay?PC Enthusiast said:
Sorry... I'm in a terrible mood from school, my TiBook won't turn on, my iPod battery is nearly dead, and now this (yes, I read the thread, and I don't like the idea). Not a good day - at all.
Given the millions of hosted web sites, I think it's likely that someone could get into one, create an email address, and register from there. So... an email address wouldn't necessarily lead to the culprit.epepper9 said:Hopefully, but I can't remember, an email is sent to your address for activating your MR account, so only your real one would effectively work
The problem is, an app can have any custom icon the user wants to create. It's just an image. Even if OS X scanned each icon image and compared it to certain other icons, people would just learn to spoof OTHER icons, or simply make a slightly-different icon.HiRez said:
My proposed added glow--something dynamic that only apps would have--would help make it clear though.
I like what Norton is saying for people to do about this. Re-install the OS, that always works (I mean that). As it is I am re-installing Bill's OS (XP Pro, I try to refrain from saying the name of Bill's company.) 2x a year anyway because his OS is sub-standard. That is o.k. though as I am FINALLY coming back to Apple and if some piss ant writes something like this worm to attack OSX once a couple of years, I am way ahead of the game. I am sick and tired of people who praise Bill's OS. I recommend to those people that they should check out Apple's OS and see what they think.
yankeefan24 said:
Considering that this worm is not likely to infect large number of computers (hell I bet not even small numbers of computers), who do you think will care enough to waste resources to track them down?
Also unless the original poster was an idiot and used a email account that could actually be tied to him/her or from a ISP that they can be tied to there is not really a way to track this down unless they signed their name in the worm itself.
Folks here at MR seem to be blowing this way out of proportion. Even Norton, that loves to make mountains out of mole hills, is saying this worm is nothing to worry about. It seems to me this whole discussion is a repeat of the last app that pretended to be something else when a clueless user downloaded it and installed (MS office I think was the program that deleted users home directory) It all comes down to on thing:
Don't be an idiot!
But that is just my option. I could be wrong.
Laser47 said:
The Trojan was compiled ( poorly I might add ) using gcc 3.3 on a PPC platform if my read of the text file is correct..
This is why it won't run on the Intel Macs..Compiling for the Intel requires gcc 4.01
My guess is a script kiddie playing with XCode..
Virus
Hello,
I wanted to see if anyone has had this virus that I have now on my mac. I'm pretty sure it came from a site that claimed they had a version of WinAmp for Mac (my sister tried to download it for me, but it obviously didn't work). Now, whenever my screensaver starts (I have it set to show my pictures), the pictures come, but intermittently, some giant annoying icon has completely covered the entire picture. Anyone else encounter this virus? I'm running a virus scanner right now (ClamXav...anyone know anything about it...or maybe can recommend a good virus scanner...I'm new to mac and loving it) I'll let everyone know how it goes.
Hello,
I wanted to see if anyone has had this virus that I have now on my mac. I'm pretty sure it came from a site that claimed they had a version of WinAmp for Mac (my sister tried to download it for me, but it obviously didn't work). Now, whenever my screensaver starts (I have it set to show my pictures), the pictures come, but intermittently, some giant annoying icon has completely covered the entire picture. Anyone else encounter this virus? I'm running a virus scanner right now (ClamXav...anyone know anything about it...or maybe can recommend a good virus scanner...I'm new to mac and loving it) I'll let everyone know how it goes.
person1337 said:
Don't let this blown up story get you in a frenzy..what you describe is not a virus.
If your screensaver is set to your pictures folder the screensaver will eventually show the icons in the iChat Icons folder that's linked inside your pictures folder.And when it shows the icon which is like 48X48 pixels it will show it full screen which looks darn ugly!
nagromme said:
Even simpler: Extend the "Show Item Info" feature to actually list the item kind in blue text underneath document and application icons.
ClamXav would do it but other than that there is no such thing as a virus scanner for OS X (Not including Symantec for OS X which is more trouble than it is worth). I doubt you have a virus on your Mac since they are all written for PC and wont run on OS X. Sounds more like you have some other issue.) I have also never heard of WinAmp for Macperson1337 said:
Peace said:Don't let this blown up story get you in a frenzy..what you describe is not a virus.
If your screensaver is set to your pictures folder the screensaver will eventually show the icons in the iChat Icons folder that's linked inside your pictures folder.And when it shows the icon which is like 48X48 pixels it will show it full screen which looks darn ugly!
I know what you are talking about...but this isn't that. Let me get more detailed about what it is doing. It'll display the picture, then it'll display the same pciture, only with a giant icon on top of the picture. You can see along the edges of the icon, or sometimes through the icon depending on its shape that there is definitely a picture behind it. Originally, I thought it was exactly what you described...but some weird icons started showing up, like the mexican flag, and pikachu, and apples and oranges and bananas and ships and sheep. I did not have any of those files anywhere on my computer. All I have to say is, my sister meant well. I got a new MAC to make sure I don't get viruses, and now I have one. Life is such.
epepper9 said:Hopefully, but I can't remember, an email is sent to your address for activating your MR account, so only your real one would effectively work
That is correct.
Also, the Admin should hopefully be able to give us lasthope's e-mail so that we can REALLY make him suffer.