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Story: There's no worm in your Apple - honest
Posted by: Graham Cluley (Tuesday 2 November 2004, 4:59 AM)
So by Sophos' standards, if I try to jump to Pluto (even though I can't) they would declare me the first person to visit Pluto?
The "opener" (stop colluding with these dimwits by calling it renepo) script does not specifically try to copy to network shares (if it did, startup would be a rather illogical time to try) and looking at the script it appers it can't properly install itself even on local drives.
In the Windows world we would call this a batch file and we would call Sophos spokespersons "SHAMELESS LIARS."
Full Talkback thread
Story: There's no worm in your Apple - honest
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"Blighting" - one person has this malware installe... Anonymous -
"Apple Macintosh has denied that the malicious cod... Anonymous
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If opener was PC malware, it would be classified a... Anonymous
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You are of course right about the erroneous Macint... Matt Loney
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If someone can sit down on your machine to install... jbelkin
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No worries with Opener.
But the worst thing t... Anonymous -
It does not make sense to pay for and us... Dave Carmean -
So by Sophos' standards, if I try t... Graham Cluley -
Yes. It is just a batch file.... nonono -
Opener is just a script that must... Anonymous
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Thank's to the complete lack o... D W
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The Anti-virus vendors classify it as a virus.
I'm... Anonymous
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Antivirus company Sophos said: "Renepo is a worm,... Anonymous
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If this is a virus, it's like the joke goes w... Terry Wilson
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Facts:-
My apple doesn't get hammered wi... seanthemac
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Well since Sophos representatives are already on r... no_thanks_sophos
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Some versions of Opener are worms, all are spyware... Ptitboul
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"Symantec declared that Mac owners were protected... Walter Medea
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Bullshit! just a buch of jerks try to beat the dru... Anonymous
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grsisoft symantec and webroot are the big men now Anonymous
