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Crash Test Dummy
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thebrix
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I got hold of a copy and took it apart (!)
It is crude - it reminds me of Windows viruses of about 7 years ago. For anything to happen rather a lot of work has to be done - one has to:
- explicitly download and open a compressed (tarred, gzipped) file;
- click on a file expanded out from that archive with a type not matching its icon;
- enter the root password when prompted.
(The Mac runs, by default, as a restricted administrator; one has to enter the root password, via sudo, to install anything in anything other than a limited subset of folders).
Also, for reasons which are too arcane to explain here, it will not do anything if people have installed certain types of application before.
Some of the rubbish written about it would be funny if people didn't believe newspapers. For example, this Guardian article considers it is the "first Apple virus" (after 30 years!?) and is of a "new kind" (quite the opposite - it is quaint in the extreme) ... |
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Crash Test Dummy
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Can you translate into idiot please  |
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thebrix
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You would have to be an idiot for the virus to actually do anything  |
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Crash Test Dummy
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| thebrix wrote: |
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You would have to be an idiot for the virus to actually do anything |
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brother
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| thebrix wrote: |
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| Can you translate into idiot please |
You would have to be an idiot for the virus to actually do anything |
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Crash Test Dummy
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| Bro is your Apple fucked? |
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brother
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Nope i am not stupid enough to fall for the above. |
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Crash Test Dummy
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| brother wrote: |
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| Bro is your Apple fucked? |
Nope i am not stupid enough to fall for the above. |
We will see |
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