By Dan Ilett
Published: Tuesday 02 November 2004
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Anonymous
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Apple's right, it's not a worm, it's a rootkit (http://www.tech-faq.com/unix/rootkit.shtml).
You need to login as root to install it, and you need to have root priviledges to run it.
It does not run on it's own or self propagate. It is just a shell script or in the Windows world, a batch file.
I'm assuming these so called security experts also sell anti-virus software?
I have just discovered another "worm". This insidi...
Anonymous
So when the Sophos software installer copies Sopho...
Anonymous
I agree with Apple. After looking at opener on the...
Bob Lopez
Apple's right, it's not a worm, it's a rootkit (ht...
Anonymous
Oh dear, this has stired up the apple community, t...
Anonymous
Yes, the three 'experts' the article cited all sel...
Anonymous
Seems to me the virus companies have realised ther...
Ryan C
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