[iBook] First Real Mac Virus In Ten Years

Fred Stevens K2FRD k2frd at mac.com
Fri Feb 17 07:38:09 PST 2006


Anybody have any details or insight on this worm beyond what Symantic says?
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/osx.leap.a.html

(Summary: it spreads only through iChat; MacBooks and iMacs with 
Intel processors can't spread it.)

It apparently only was discovered yesterday (Thurs 16 Feb).
<http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2006-02-16-apple-first-worm_x.htm?csp=34>

Fred


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