The Oompa Loompa Trojan
Just so we’re all clear… Mac OS X has not had its first virus. The Oompa Loompa threat is a trojan. It disguises itself as a legitimate program (or, er, a JPEG in this case) that invites clicking. You then have to authenticate with your password. Only then will it run. I wouldn’t type in my password to look at a picture, would you? ( ;
It does spread via iChat… but only after it has been executed and authenticated by the user. Compare this to ActiveX virii on PCs that spread because the user went to a bad webpage… way different.
And I’m not doing this because I’m some rabid Mac guy… I just hate misinformation.
April 22nd, 2006 at 8:59 am
I’m not a techie, but have been a Mac User and fan since 1984. Are you saying that in the what.. 4 years.. that OsX has been around, there have been NO viruses??
April 24th, 2006 at 8:41 am
I’m pretty sure there’ve been viruses… but most of them can’t do the things they can do on Windows because they would have to authenticate first… so they can’t, y’know, delte all your Applications or anything like that. ( =