On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 20:17:29 +0000, Calif Bill wrote:
snip

So all stories in the media about malware that installs itself and
start running while you surf the net are just the produce of the
marketing divisions of anti-virus program vendors?

/Martin

Most virus are installed when you click on the executable attachment. On IE
you can tell it not to activate these type file automatically. As well as
OE.

"The malicious program tries to trick users into installing it
and does not exploit any security holes in Apple's OS X operating system.
It travels in a file called "latestpics.tgz" and only version 10.4 of OS X
is vulnerable to it.

Installing and running the worm requires users to go through several
stages and this, along with bugs in Leap-A's code, have led security firms
to play down the threat it poses."

Is not quite the same situation as:

"The US net watchdog, the Computer Emergency Response Center (Cert),
and security firms have issued warnings about certain types of image files
called Windows Metafiles.

Experts said numerous websites were taking advantage of the flaw to sneak
into computers and install spyware."

/Martin (no, I don't have a Mac myself)