[X4U] Opener Malware

[Eugene]

On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 08:25:01AM -0500, James Baker wrote:
: 
: Copied - MailBITS/25-Oct-04
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: 
: **Opener's Existence Encourages Password Care** -- Over the last
:  few days, news of a malicious shell script known as "Opener" has
:  appeared on MacInTouch, and several news organizations picking up
:  the report have incorrectly started calling it a virus. It's not
:  a virus, and frankly, it's not even that big of a concern. Opener
:  is a shell script that, if installed and activated on a Mac, turns
:  on file sharing and remote login, disables the firewall, extracts
:  passwords, creates an admin-level user, installs a password
:  sniffer, and more. That sounds bad, but Opener can't do any of
:  these things unless someone with an administrator password or
:  physical access to the Mac installs and runs it. More to the
:  point, if someone has your administrator password or physical
:  access to your Mac, Opener is just one of many possible worries.
: 
: <http://www.macintouch.com/opener.html>

Okay, let me re-iterate the obvious.

	...Opener can't do any of these things unless someone with an
	administrator password or physical access to the Mac installs
	and runs it. More to the point, if someone has your administrator
	password or physical access to your Mac, Opener is just one of
	many possible worries.

And here are the key words:

	"administrator password"
	"physical access"

Now move along, nothing to see.


-- 
Eugene Lee
http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/