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IGGY9
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There's no worm in your Apple - honest

Apple says it just isn't so.

"After a week of contemplation, Apple has announced that the 'Opener' malware program blighting OS X is not a virus - although the security community disagrees"

»news.zdnet.co.uk/interne ··· 7,00.htm

This is related to this story

»A New Mac Worm

I did a short blog posting on it as well.

rjackson

join:2002-04-02
Ringgold, GA

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It's not a virus, it's a shell script.

»macdiscussion.com/articl ··· _var=257
x539
join:2003-08-23
Oklahoma City, OK

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I'm on the same page as rjackson.

Another source of discussion:
»apple.slashdot.org/artic ··· 72&tid=1

Khaine
join:2003-03-03
Australia

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I thought that the opener malware copied itself across to ther computers via smb ? making it a worm ?

Not that I care, cos I don't use OSX
IGGY9
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That is one point that is debated in the 2 links that were posted by other users. I've now add those to my original blog post as well.