Apple OSX Virus
Posted by Travis on January 23, 2009The innerwebz are crowded with news of a huge virus spreading on Apple systems. Many non-Apple fanboys are feeling victorious. It seems like no one has taken the time to mention that the virus gets on your computer by installing an illegal/pirated copy of Apple software, iWork 09. It doesn’t sneak in through email or through hacking. You get the virus because you tried to “save” some money, or dare I say, steal something.
The virus’s only means of getting into OS X is through a willing, albeit careless, install.
Is that really Apple’s fault?
Your thoughts?
(your sins shall find you out… -that’s what I think.)
OH! And I also think I just got my $10 copy of iLife ‘09 in the mail today. heheheheheh
The virus is really and application that performs the same function as a Trojan Horse. All I am saying is that someone has some free time now.
Sounds like poetic justice to me. Almost makes me believe in karma…:)
Hmmm, interesting so just like most Windows viruses you have to do something boneheaded to get it? Color me surprised.
Most viruses rely on the users being dumb enough to install or click on something and run something else. Only a select minority exploit specific OS security holes to spread automatically.
I know it’s been several months, but this was never a virus. It can notself replicate. It is a trojan horse.
I know it’s been several months, but this was never a virus. It cannot self replicate. It is a Trojan horse.
Nyle, you’re wrong. No virus requires user interaction to spread. The very definition of a virus is a piece of malware which self-replicates, exploiting security flaws on a system.
A Trojan, on the other hand (which this is/was) DOES require user interaction, because a Trojan (Trojan Horse…) behaves like it’s fabled namesake and masquerades as something it is not. When you take it into your system (or activate it by launching the supposed application), it executes…
They’re different things entirely.
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