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[News] Proof-of-concept Mac Virus is Impotent

OS.X Macarena 'virus' (#2): No viable threat posed; Not exploiting a Mac OS X
bug; not a 'warning' of more viruses to come

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| "...OS.X Macarena poses no viable threat as currently conceived. Although
| we don't have our hands on the virus source code, according to Symantec
| (who initially publicized the virus last week) OSX.Macarena can infect
| neither PowerPC-exclusive binaries, nor Universal binaries. It can
| only affect binaries that are Intel-specific. That would include
| various system files, but since OSX.Macarena can only infect files
| in its own directory and has no means of gaining the privileges
| necessary to escalate into directories where most system files are
| stored, the the threat level is mitigated."
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http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20061106121705426

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