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A warning on a new destructive 'trojan horse'
Authored by: crarko on May 12, '04 04:58:30PM

I put a thread about this in the 'OS X News and Reviews' section of the forums, as well.

One thing a person might want to consider to protect oneself from variants of this: it's only 108 KB in size. Pretty small for an Office (or Word) 2004 demo installer.



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A warning on a new destructive 'trojan horse'
Authored by: kirkmc on May 12, '04 05:07:48PM

It is actually said to be a "web installer" - I understand that as something like the old QuickTime installers, which were rather small, but let you choose which modules were downloaded and installed. I think Netscape used that kind of installer at some point as well.



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A warning on a new destructive 'trojan horse'
Authored by: jasont on May 12, '04 07:07:32PM

Adobe does use this method. It's not all that uncommon and MS does offer free trials of their products. The social engineering part of this one isn't necessarily to the criminal element, but also get's those who legitimately use filesharing systems. Always take the ftp, http, or mirror file over the torrent.



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