Filed under: Software, Apple, Security
CNN reports on Mac virus
Several people have emailed us to point out that CNN is featuring an AP story about the 'first Mac virus' on
their front page. It looks like CNN is a little late to the party, since the Mac web already reported about this way
back in February. Damien wrote that, 'The bottom line
is that this really seems to be a proof-of-concept trojan more than an actual "in the wild, self-propagating"
virus. So yeah, it's certainly very interesting, but I'm not about to start watching for the sky to fall.'The virus detailed in the CNN story is (though they never call it by name) Oompa-Loompa, as coined by Andrew Welch. You get this trojan (it isn't really a virus) by downloading a file that promises to give you a sneak peek at Leopard. You must then decompress the file, and then click on the resulting decompressed file. At that point an application runs that does a variety of things that Andrew details much better than I can.
I wonder what took the AP so long to sensationalize this little 'virus'?
My money is on this being another proof-of-concept design, but 
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