Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 4th Nov 2006 21:39 UTC
Source code for a Mac virus has gone public, a security company warned Friday, and although the original doesn't carry a malicious payload, more dangerous variants can be expected. The virus, dubbed 'OSX.Macarena' by Symantec, targets some, but not all, Mac OS X Mach-O executables. "Although methods of infecting Mach-O binaries have been publicly available for some time, this marks the first known fully functional Mach-O file infecter virus," Symantec noted in an alert to customers of its DeepSight threat network on Friday. "The source code for this virus is publicly available and as such it is possible that variants may be trivially developed to extend the virus's functionality."
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This is going to be a fun thread, right?
Before anybody jumps to conclusions, get a sense of perspective please. 1 vs 140'000; lowest rating possible vs critical flaws; proper disk permission vs free reign.
I'm still safe as I was before thanks.
Edited 2006-11-04 21:56