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Old April 10th, 2004
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Thanks for the info Don. Wired magazine has reported that
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(Editor's note: This story corrects an earlier report that stated that the Macintosh operating system had become a target of a malicious Trojan Horse.)

Security experts on Friday slammed security firm Intego for exaggerating the threat of what the company identified as the first Trojan for Mac OS X
Hmmm--a new kind of "Easter Egg"! LOL
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Sadly it sounds very reasonable, because iTunes can easily change the tags of all my mp3s, so a trojan need only tell it to do so.
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I don't think it is an easter egg.


But what I just read suggests, that OSX sees the file as an Application in that case, so any mp3 appearing as an application might be a trojan.
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