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To: thecow who started this subject	4/9/2004 1:11:57 PM
From: rrufff	of 110653

Mac users welcome to the world of trojans and viruses through Music. Trojan Horse Attacks Mac OS X By Leander Kahney Story location: wired.com 02:00 AM Apr. 09, 2004 PT Thanks to Apple Computer's rising star in the world of digital music, Mac OS X has become a target for malware authors. A Trojan horse, called MP3Concept or MP3Virus.gen, has been discovered that masquerades as an MP3 file. It hides in ID tags of the file and becomes activated when unwary users click on it, expecting to play a digital song. "This is the first native Mac OS virus we've found," said Brian Davis, U.S. sales manager for Intego, a Mac security and privacy firm that discovered the Trojan. ... That could change quickly. Nearly half of the executable files downloaded through Kazaa contain malicious code like viruses and Trojan horses, according to a recent study by security firm TruSecure. Out of 4,778 files downloaded in one month for the study, nearly half contained various types of nefarious code. wired.com

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