Frank Woolf
May 16th, 2004, 09:41 AM
Mac Users have never had to worry much about viruses or trojan horses so advising Mac users that there is one is importatant. Please pass on to Mac user friends.
Fake "Word 2004 Demo" trojan horse distributed
A Macworld UK story covers a trojan horse for Mac OS X -- disguished as an installer for a "demo" version of Microsoft Word 2004 -- circulating through file sharing networks such Limewire and Gnutella. Launching the "demo installer" allows it to erase your home directory.
A clue that this isn't really a real demo installer is that the file is just over 100k but purports to install the full version of Word 2004. Obviously if it was genuine it would be very much larger.
If you download such a file, or receive it from another user, do not try to launch or open it. (According to a Microsoft spokesperson quoted in the Macworld UK article, "Microsoft does not currently offer any Web downloads for Microsoft Office 2004...customers should always download from www.microsoft.com/mac.")
Fake "Word 2004 Demo" trojan horse distributed
A Macworld UK story covers a trojan horse for Mac OS X -- disguished as an installer for a "demo" version of Microsoft Word 2004 -- circulating through file sharing networks such Limewire and Gnutella. Launching the "demo installer" allows it to erase your home directory.
A clue that this isn't really a real demo installer is that the file is just over 100k but purports to install the full version of Word 2004. Obviously if it was genuine it would be very much larger.
If you download such a file, or receive it from another user, do not try to launch or open it. (According to a Microsoft spokesperson quoted in the Macworld UK article, "Microsoft does not currently offer any Web downloads for Microsoft Office 2004...customers should always download from www.microsoft.com/mac.")