First blood: a Mac OS X virus appears

The very first Mac OS X virus has been found. In the 3 or so years that OSX has been out this is the first malignant program to appear.

Posted by dustin on April 8, 2004 with category tags of

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it's not a virus, it's a trojan horse. BIG difference in how it can spread-it can't spread on its own, you have to RUN the file or app to trigger it, and all it can do is delete things.
   comment by name on September 6, 2004

Plus, this was not a virus found in the wild. It was a conceptual trojan. Intego thought it up then claimed they "found" it on a newsgroup. Meh.
   comment by Armchair Security Dude on September 16, 2004

   

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