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Regarding the 'opener' malware script
Authored by: DonkeyHo-T on Nov 01, '04 10:44:30AM

There are additional problems beyond merely giving out your password.

Nothing gaurantees the permissions of /Library/StartupItems and any StartupItems placed in the folder run as root during the next startup.

As the opener script itself points out, there are numerous programs that store passwords in preference files rather than in the keychain and some of those preference files can contain an admin password in clear text so if a person has read access to your drive (for instance physical access and you do not set a screen-saver password) then the person may well be able to obtain your password without "you" giving it to them.



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