The firstTrojan for MacOSX is anything but, experts say, and Thursday's warning from antivirus company Intego was unnecessarily alarmist. By Leander Kahney. ... Apr 9, 2004 12:44 PM.
FirstMacOSXtrojan horse spotted. Posted 04/08/2004 @ 3:24 PM ... and French Mac security firm Intego today announced the sighting of an overly-user-friendly Trojan Horse for OSX. 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 ...
Intego issued a security warning regarding a concept Trojan on MacOS X.Mac OSX displays the icon of ... 2004 2:11 pm PDT by ... Apple's first-generation Vision Pro headset may have now ceased ...
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 ...
Intego's security annoucement about the viability of a Trojan horse for MacOS … Eric Bangeman - Apr 10, 2004 6:54 pm UTC. ... we reported that the firstTrojan horse on MacOSX had been spotted.
One of the (many) nice things about being a Mac user is our general invulnerability to the multitudes of viruses, trojan horses, and other exploits that threaten the 'net on a regular basis. So it's no wonder that the Mac world is all a-tizzy over anti-virus company Intego releasing news of what appears to be the firstMacOSXtrojan horse, wrapped inside an apparent .mp3 file.
Posted 04/10/2004 @ 1:54 PM by Eric Bangeman. Thursday, we reported that the firstTrojan horse on MacOSX had been spotted. After further review, ... The proof-of-concept is exactly that: a demonstration that OSX can be vulnerable to some Trojan horses, and not much more. The file posted on the Usenet takes advantage of a beahvior that is a ...
With MacOSX, many changes had made the Mac more resistant to malware. But Apple had to add more serious security features to MacOSX to meet this challenge. MacOSX 10.4 Tiger, released in April 2005, saw a number of new security features added to protect Macs. This Trojan horse made the news around the world, and even got written up in the ...
"On Thursday, Intego issued a press release saying it had found OSX'sfirstTrojan Horse, a piece of malware called MP3Concept or MP3Virus.Gen that appears to be an MP3 file.
Security experts and Mac programmers have slammed Intego for exaggerating the threat of what the company called the firstTrojan Horse for MacOSX. "They gave the impression that this is a threat, but it isn't," said Dave Schroeder, a systems engineer with the University of Wisconsin. "It is a benign proof of concept that was posted to a newsgroup.
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