Posted 04/08/2004 @ 3:24 PM
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Virus and Trojan horses are old hat, at least if you run Windows as your primary OS. For years, Mac users have enjoyed the relative obscurity of a low market share, which meant that aside from the occasional Mac OS 8/9 boot worm, malware writers generally overlooked the platform to concentrate on tormenting the largest amount of users with the least amount of effort. Alas, a modern OS and the platform's increased visibility could only be overlooked for so long, and French Mac security firm Integotoday announced the sighting of an overly-user-friendly Trojan Horse for OS X.
The Trojan horse's code is encapsulated in the ID3 tag of an MP3 (digital music) file. This code is in reality a hidden application that can run on any Macintosh computer running Mac OS X. Mac OS X displays the icon of the MP3 file, with an .mp3 extension, rather than showing the file as an application, leading users to believe that they can double-click the file to listen to it. But double clicking the file launches the hidden code, which can damage or delete files on computers running Mac OS X, then [launches] iTunes to play the music contained in the file, to make users think that it is really an MP3 file.
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This particular Trojan horse has the potential to do all the typical nasty stuff such as deleting files, infecting other media files (i.e., QuickTime, MP3, JPEG), and propagating itself via e-mail. According to Intego, initial versions of the Trojan are benign, but now that this exploit is widely-known, it is likely that this exploit will be adopted by virus and Trojan horse authors. Intego has made updated virus definitions available, and McAfee (makers of Virex) will likely follow.
A few weeks after the hullabaloo surrounding Intego’s press release about a technique that could be used to create a Trojan horse that looked like an MP3 file (see 'Mac OS X Trojan Technique: Beware Geeks Bearing Gifts' in TidBITS-726), a real Mac OS X Trojan horse has been reported to Macworld UK. As we always hear in the news that some malware attacked on Mac OS. So It’s better to be equipped with safety. Pros and Cons of Mac Os. Following are some of the Pros (Advantages) and Cons (Disadvantages) of Mac OS. Mac OS has a built-in program called BootCamp. While everything below is just my opinion, as a long-time Mac user and veteran software engineer, I hope my opinion worth something. The best Mac OS version is the one that your Mac is eligible to upgrade to. In 2021 it is macOS Big Sur. However, for users that need to run 32-bit apps on Mac, the best macOS is Mojave.
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Mac users have been grown accustomed to not worrying about malware. While it is unrealistic to think that Mac OS X users are soon going to be under a barrage of MyDoom and SoBig-like viruses, chances are that virus authors will begin looking for exploits. If you own a Mac, this might be a good time to dust off that antivirus software.