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Thursday, 9. November 2006, 03:33:25
Experts at SophosLabs™, Sophos's global network of virus, spyware and spam analysis centers, have questioned whether courts are giving consistent sentences to hackers following the ruling against a 38-year-old British man who broke into a dating agency website and distributed computer viruses.
Friday, 3. November 2006, 20:41:49
Symantec report proof-of-concept file infector for Mac.
Analysts at Symantec have received samples of a proof-of-concept file infector for the Apple Mac OSX platform. The virus, dubbed 'OSX/Macarena' after the mid-nineties chart hit and dance craze, is capable of infecting any files executed once it is running - as long as they are in the same directory as the original viral file. The parasite has no payload other than replication.
This new finding is unlikely to put an end to the long-running debate over Mac security, recently stirred up by the the iPod virus issue and the resulting war of words between Apple and Microsoft,' said John Hawes, Technical Consultant at Virus Bulletin. 'With its fairly limited capabilities, Symantec have classed the finding as very low risk, but Mac users should hopefully be reminded that they aren't invulnernable to malware, and should take the usual precautions.
Symantec's analysis of the virus is here, and a blog entry from Peter Ferrie on the findings is here.
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Wednesday, 18. October 2006, 19:38:39
Hot News found on the Nouvelobs
Certain numeric(digital) readers iPod of Apple Computer delivered last month would be infected by a computer virus, according to a message published in the part(party) technical aid of the Internet site of the manufacturer.
Apple indicates that since September 12th, a little less than a percent of its iPod video went out of factory with a virus called RavMonE.exe, who affects the operating system Windows of Microsoft.
" Until now we received less than 25 demands concerning of this problem. IPod nano, iPod shuffle and Mac bones X are not concerned and all the iPod video delivered at present is without virus ", clarifies Apple on its Web site.
Apple adds that the virus can be discovered and eliminated with most of the common(current) antivirus software.
Nobody at Apple or Microsoft was available on Wednesday morning to comment on the information.
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