Leap-A is believed to have originally been posted on a Web site for Apple users, posing as a software update.
"Believed" by whom??? This is an example of the FUD written by people who really don't know what they are talking about. A cursory investigation would have revealed that we know exactly WHERE Leap.A was first seen and by whom... and it was NOT as a "software update." It was masquerading as a zipped set of supposed JPEG images of the next incarnation of OSX, Leopard.
To: 1234; 6SJ7; Action-America; af_vet_rr; afnamvet; Alexander Rubin; anonymous_user; ...
More hyperventilating from the ignorant press about Leap.A or Oomp.A Trojan for Mac OS X. PING!
This one ads even more mis-information.
2 posted on
02/24/2006 11:26:14 AM PST by
Swordmaker
(Beware of Geeks bearing GIFs.)
To: Swordmaker
With all due respect this was bound to happen. With increasing market share and Mac users constantly bragging about how their computers didn't get viruses, it was only a matter of time before some hacker decided to meet the challenge.
To: Swordmaker
Relax. Malware happens, and it shouldn't reduce the enjoyment you derive from your platform of choice. Are you on the payroll or something?
4 posted on
02/24/2006 11:30:40 AM PST by
Doohickey
(If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice...I will choose freewill.)
To: Swordmaker
Clicking on the file allows the malware to install and disguise itself as a harmless-seeming .jpeg icon. SO inother words the use installs something that does bad stuff, this is a trojan not a virus.
5 posted on
02/24/2006 11:39:59 AM PST by
N3WBI3
(If SCO wants to go fishing they should buy a permit and find a lake like the rest of us..)
To: Swordmaker
Thanks for the updates! New Mac Ping icon for you if you'd like. :)
6 posted on
02/24/2006 12:09:57 PM PST by
anonymous_user
(62% of repondents say they lie to pollsters.)
To: Swordmaker; All
Has anyone have any first hand experience with this...
7 posted on
02/24/2006 12:29:05 PM PST by
tubebender
(Everything I know about computers I learned on Free Republic...)
To: Swordmaker
Bring out your dead!
Bring out your dead!
The end is near!
8 posted on
02/24/2006 12:48:22 PM PST by
sergeantdave
(You can count on phalanges)
To: Swordmaker
The fact is that most viruses now require permission from the user to install, and no operating system can be completely immune from user permissions.
9 posted on
02/24/2006 12:54:52 PM PST by
js1138
(Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
To: Swordmaker
I doubt its a real virus. The way Mac OS is set up, you have to run a superuser permission to install anything. And it wouldn't infect Windows machines. I've never seen a Unix virus in the wild. Its a hoax.
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32 posted on
02/25/2006 9:01:25 PM PST by
goldstategop
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