Macs and trojans
After all the brouhaha last week about Greg Jackson's comments on Macs, I was particularly amuused to see this in John Gruber's Daring Fireball blog post about the details of the 'MP3Concept Trojan Horse':
No one with any sense would ever claim that Macs are impervious to viruses, worms, or Trojan horses. Especially Trojans — which just about anyone with a 3-digit IQ could put together. E.g.:
1. Write an AppleScript that displays a dialog, then quits.
2. Save it as a script application.
3. Name it “some_song_title.mp3”.
4. Use the Finder’s Get Info window to paste the icon from an iTunes MP3 file onto the script app.
Voilá — you just wrote an innocuous Trojan horse.
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