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CNN reports on Mac virus

by Scott McNulty (May 1st, 2006)

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 ...

First Tiger Trojan: Mac/Cowhand-A?

by C.K. Sample, III (Apr 25th, 2005)

My money is on this being another proof-of-concept design, but Sophos is listing a new Mac Trojan, dubbed Mac/Cowhand-A, which lets other people gain control of your Mac: "Mac/Cowhand-A is a proxy Trojan for the Mac OSX platform. The Trojan may copy itself to the user's Preferences folder. In ...