{"id":657,"date":"2006-02-17T14:10:27","date_gmt":"2006-02-17T19:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studytools.psych.und.nodak.edu\/wordpress\/?p=657"},"modified":"2006-02-20T19:26:32","modified_gmt":"2006-02-21T00:26:32","slug":"a-mac-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/17\/a-mac-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mac Virus?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The buzz is that virus creators have found a way to pick on Mac users (Washington Post article<\/a>). As I understand the approach, Mac users must be tricked into downloading a file purported to be a picture but that is actually a program. When opened, the program attempts to send itself to anyone on the users iChat list.<\/p>\n

The logic works like this – here is a secret file, open it, run it, and see what happens (I am being facetious here). The danger would seem to be in situations in which you receive such a file from someone you know and do not stop to wonder why an image file would come in a compressed form, etc.<\/p>\n

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The buzz is that virus creators have found a way to pick on Mac users (Washington Post article). As I understand the approach, Mac users must be tricked into downloading a file purported to be a picture but that is actually a program. When opened, the program attempts to send itself to anyone on the … Continue reading A Mac Virus?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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