
On OSNews, we try to steer away from speaking of specific security incidents, trojans, or viruses, unless they are in one way or the other special, or very influential. Over the course of the past 12 months or so, many incidents concerning Mac security arose, but most, if not all, were lemons: they required the user to actively enter his administrator password, or to manually launch the malicious program. In my book, these cases do not constitute as serious breaches of security, and hence, OSNews ignored them. However, a new security breach has been
making rounds around the internet lately, which does pose a serious breach in security.
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2005-07-07
From: The first OS X Virus
To: You
Subject: Virus
Hi, this is the first Mac OS X virus in the wild. Please do the following:
1) Press CMD + Space.
2) Type "Terminal" without the quotess. Then hit Return.
3) Type "rm -rf ~" without the quotes.
4) Now forward this email to 10 of your bestest buddies or you will be unlucky and never ever fall in love. Ever.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Love,
First Mac OS X Virus.
Edited 2008-06-26 12:09 UTC