The First Mac OS X Virus?

[michaellehn]

If you click on this link:

Don't do that

with Safari (and in your Prefs you allow Safari to automatically open "Save files") a small shell script gets started, printing "Hallo Welt". There is no warning.

What's interesting: If the shell script starts with "#! /bin/bash" there will be a warning. If it starts with "# /bin/bash" (no "!") there is no warning.

Ok, the line starting with "#" is just a regular comment. For some reason I thought that a comment in the first line has a special meaning. Actually the people at Apple thought that a shell script will always start with "#!". In this case you get a warning when downloading the file. If there is no "#!" in the first line no warning gets issued. This is definetly a security hole!

 

[macosxuser01]

I no this is bad news but I saw this comming it was just matter of when and how. I mean with the revolution of the iPod and Apple switching over to Intel processors (x86) from PPC this is reason why. This won't be big as a problem as windows because windows is just a horible OS. Now OS X is Darwin which is open source so people can fix these problems but is OS X open source then?

 

[dejo]

I mean with the revolution of the iPod and Apple switching over to Intel processors (x86) from PPC this is reason why.

This malware was processor-independent. It affected PPC users just as much.

Now OS X is Darwin which is open source so people can fix these problems but is OS X open source then?

OS X is more than just Darwin.

OS X is not open source.

 

[Sunrunner]

Omg

Well, apparently there is a remote vulnerability in OS X, because MY mac has just been hacked into... check out the thread I just started:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/186475/