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[Evan Zimmerman <evan.zimmerman AT gmail.com>]

Yay! for being 'noticed' :-)

It's still not a big threat if one is careful about installers from
what I understand -- it can't install itself without someone
authorizing it.

Knowing OSX's vulnerabilities are likely to be similar to those of
*nix, does anyone know if there have been any truly nasty
virii/malware on *nix platforms? Something for Mac users to look
forward to?

Evan

On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 16:35:34 -0500 (EST), Alan MacHett
<machett AT ibiblio.org> wrote:
> Hackers Target Apple? Congratulations!
> Hackers wouldn't bother writing malicious code to infect the Macintosh
> unless those computers actually mattered.
> 
> By Eric Hellweg
> October 28, 2004
> 
> http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/10/wo_hellweg102804.asp?p=0
> 
> * * * * *
> 
> I gather from some other sites that the threat was cobbled together from
> some older *nix malware and that it doesn't do all that much; so it's
> doesn't seem to be much of a threat at all.  But the article brings up a
> good point about being valued as a target.
> 
> -Alan
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