Eeeek, a virus,worm, trojan for Mac!

[hopelessromance]

Well it looks like there's a worm in the apple( heh )
Has anyone heard anything about the proposed threat?
My mom even knew about it and she doesn't know anything(about computers).
I was reading a bit over my bassist's shoulder and as far as I know you actually have to say yes to a download and install.
Looks like only dumb people will get it. Unless of course there's more that I haven't heard of.
Good thing I still don't have mine hooked up to the internet.

[lee_merrill]

So the Macs don't have diplomatic immunity! It's the price of popularity, quite possibly...

Blessings,
Lee

[$cirisme]

Well it looks like there's a worm in the apple( heh )
Has anyone heard anything about the proposed threat?
My mom even knew about it and she doesn't know anything(about computers).
I was reading a bit over my bassist's shoulder and as far as I know you actually have to say yes to a download and install.
Looks like only dumb people will get it. Unless of course there's more that I haven't heard of.
Good thing I still don't have mine hooked up to the internet.

Which one are you referring to? There was one recently discovered in Safari where a terminal script masquerades as a JPEG. It sparked an interesting discussion about whether a component that deals with untrusted content (such as Safari) should send it to apps that don't know anything about untrusted content. (such as Terminal.app)

[Losvedir]

Which one are you referring to? There was one recently discovered in Safari where a terminal script masquerades as a JPEG. It sparked an interesting discussion about whether a component that deals with untrusted content (such as Safari) should send it to apps that don't know anything about untrusted content. (such as Terminal.app)

Yeah, I just heard about that one the other day. I tried the little proof of concept and it was pretty scary, so I unchecked "automatically open 'safe' files" or whatever. Of course, as per your recommendation, I've been using camino more and more now, and am actuallly starting to quite like it.

[Seasanctuary]

Looks like only dumb people will get it. Unless of course there's more that I haven't heard of.

http://secunia.com/advisories/18963

Nope, not just for dumb people. All it takes is viewing a website with the Safari browser on which someone has planted the malicious code and you trigger a script that can do run any commands you can run.

Not yet a patch out, but disabling the "Open safe files after downloading" is a workaround. This is an easy workaround, but using your browsers' default settings shouldn't be considered "dumb."

[$cirisme]

http://secunia.com/advisories/18963

Nope, not just for dumb people. All it takes is viewing a website with the Safari browser on which someone has planted the malicious code and you trigger a script that can do run any commands you can run.

Not yet a patch out, but disabling the "Open safe files after downloading" is a workaround. This is an easy workaround, but using your browsers' default settings shouldn't be considered "dumb."

I think he might be referring to another alert, though I don't really know the details.