Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 26th Jun 2008 11:13 UTC
Mac OS X 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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zemplar
Member since:
2006-02-10


3) Type "rm -rf ~" without the quotes.


You forgot to "sudo" your 'rm -rf~' for best results. ;)

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Kroc Member since:
2005-11-10

Yes, but that would ask for the password, and this virus is special because it doesn't do that ;)

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evangs Member since:
2005-07-07

You don't need sudo to delete your home directory, surely? The files in there should be owned by you and you wouldn't need sudo.

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