Today is a sad day…the first major mac virus is out there. It’s called latestpics.tgz and it’s a Trojan Horse virus that infects your OS X apps and sends itself to your iChat contacts. According to Macrumors.com, the virus executes the followng Unix functions:
_infect:
_infectApps:
_installHooks:
_copySelf:
Ouch. Be careful Mac users. But don’t worry, peecees (mac geek term for PCs) still have at least a billion more viruses than us, and this virus, according to Symantec, has only infected about 50 computers, and does not autmatically install, so don’t worry.
UPDATE: This is also my first post created/edited with Flock! Hooray!
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