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Story: There's no worm in your Apple - honest
Posted by: Terry Wilson (Tuesday 2 November 2004, 12:22 PM)
If this is a virus, it's like the joke goes with the "Irish Virus" (no offence intended to the Irish). Please install this on your machine (as step 1 of the joke goes).
This "OPENER" does not spread, it sends information to other people, but by no stretch of the imagination does it spread.
The fact that it has to be a manual install, is the give away. It CANNOT be installed on any other machine without MANUAL INTERVENTION, ergo, not a virus/worm or whatever name those virus-killer SELLERS want to call it.
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
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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 -
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
