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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