Huzzah! A new trojan...for MacOS!

Brk · Post by **Brk** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 12:02 pm

http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,63000,00.html

CiscoKid · Post by **CiscoKid** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 12:16 pm

And people actually think it wasn't possible to creat Mac viruses...

striker8000 · Post by **striker8000** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 1:33 pm

there are finally enough Mac users for viruses to do damage???

p2ii · Post by **p2ii** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 3:00 pm

They're probably clamoring around right now not knowing what to do! All of us Windozers are laughing....."haha, this is nothing new get over it!"

striker8000 · Post by **striker8000** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 3:18 pm

now they need to figure out antiVirus settings

and virus removal

and manual virus removal

Jamie_R · Post by **Jamie_R** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 3:27 pm

striker8000 wrote:there are finally enough Mac users for viruses to do damage???

pompus pr*cks ...

striker8000 · Post by **striker8000** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 3:47 pm

no offense intended

I first started on a mac in the late 80's, nice machines...but...

Jamie_R · Post by **Jamie_R** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 3:54 pm

striker8000 wrote:no offense intended

um yeah .... me too ....

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 3:58 pm

This just isn't going to have the same impact as writing a MS Virus. Face it, whats the total damage gonna be, 2 or 3 machines?
The virus writer is probably the laughing stock of the virus writers guild for waisting his time

striker8000 · Post by **striker8000** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 3:58 pm

Posted by me earlier:

no offense intended

umm, that was for any mac users that are viewing this

striker8000 · Post by **striker8000** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 4:00 pm

striker8000 wrote:there are finally enough Mac users for viruses to do damage???

that's the thought, shoulda read "damage to" instead of "damage"

Mehmet · Post by **Mehmet** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 5:23 pm

http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,63 ... ories_html

Intego just wanted to get some attention so people would buy their virus software.

Hell, what good is a virus company if there are no viruses/people buying it?

Oh by the way, this virus depends on the resource forks of an archive, so unless your <sarcasm> supersmart </sarcasm> and find the need to download zips of mp3's from filesharing networks, there is no problem at all.

Prey521 · Post by **Prey521** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 5:42 pm

I know quite a few "Crap" users and not 1 of them have any AV apps installed on their machines......

Mehmet · Post by **Mehmet** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 5:49 pm

Prey521 wrote:I know quite a few "Crap" users and not 1 of them have any AV apps installed on their machines......

Im one of them. no av installed, go check symantec for OS X viruses, there are none.

Prey521 · Post by **Prey521** » Sat Apr 10, 2004 12:01 am

I wish PC users had it that easy LOL

The_Lurker · Post by **The_Lurker** » Sat Apr 10, 2004 12:06 am

Chris wrote:This just isn't going to have the same impact as writing a MS Virus. Face it, whats the total damage gonna be, 2 or 3 machines?
The virus writer is probably the laughing stock of the virus writers guild for waisting his time

this just makes me chuckle

ScottE · Post by **ScottE** » Sat Apr 10, 2004 12:11 am

The Mac holds a niche market... The graphics publishing one... other than that the PC rules.

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Sat Apr 10, 2004 12:31 am

ScottE wrote:The Mac holds a niche market... The graphics publishing one... other than that the PC rules.

Don't forget all the poor kids got a Rasberry or Blueberry Imac from Grandma to play games on

Mehmet · Post by **Mehmet** » Sat Apr 10, 2004 3:03 am

ScottE wrote:The Mac holds a niche market... The graphics publishing one... other than that the PC rules.

I really dont think so man, as not being bothered by crashes or stupid problems really is something that people like. Hell, that's what made me switch.

The_Lurker · Post by **The_Lurker** » Sat Apr 10, 2004 3:29 am

Mehmet wrote:I really dont think so man, as not being bothered by crashes or stupid problems really is something that people like. Hell, that's what made me switch.

this is interesting, it made me think.

since i've went to XP i haven't had a crash yet attributable to the os. sure i had a few crashes when i was using junk ram, got rid of that and walla!

no mas'

and it's been a year now w XP. and my comp stays on 24/7 for over a month now.

go figure.

oh yeah, i'm not mac bashing, just making a note. 98 did crash and get mucked up alot.

ghost · Post by **ghost** » Sat Apr 10, 2004 1:18 pm

Mehmet · Post by **Mehmet** » Sat Apr 10, 2004 3:24 pm

The_Lurker wrote:this is interesting, it made me think.

since i've went to XP i haven't had a crash yet attributable to the os. sure i had a few crashes when i was using junk ram, got rid of that and walla!

no mas'

and it's been a year now w XP. and my comp stays on 24/7 for over a month now.

go figure.

oh yeah, i'm not mac bashing, just making a note. 98 did crash and get mucked up alot.

Yeah, see, that's hat happened to me with 2k, i had no crashes, or anything, but then all of these stupid problems started to come up over time, like, add/remove programs would just stop working (happened on my xp machine too). And the thing is, in order to have that fast and fresh feeling, you had to format, your performance would drop after a while, even if you defragmented etc. Then there were just random stupid problems with apps needing reinstalls because windows decided it didn't like them anymore, or problems with spyware, security, viruses etc.

I then decided to use my dad's laptop a bit more (powerbook g4), with jaguar (later upgraded to panther), and it was just like 'wow.' After using os x for a while i can't go back to anything else, it's just so... nice.