Comments on: Apple OSX Virus

By: M-RES

M-RES — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:06:19 +0000

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.

By: DreamTheEndless

DreamTheEndless — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:43:04 +0000

I know it’s been several months, but this was never a virus. It cannot self replicate. It is a Trojan horse.

By: DreamTheEndless

DreamTheEndless — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:42:26 +0000

I know it’s been several months, but this was never a virus. It can notself replicate. It is a trojan horse.

By: Nyle

Nyle — Wed, 13 May 2009 13:21:16 +0000

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.

By: Jeff M. Miller

Jeff M. Miller — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:43:11 +0000

Sounds like poetic justice to me. Almost makes me believe in karma…:)

By: Corey Hines

Corey Hines — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:08:17 +0000

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.

By: mandythompson

mandythompson — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:12:38 +0000

(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