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Mac OS X rootkit surfaces
John Leyden, The Register 2004-10-25

One of the first pieces of malicious code targeting Apple's Mac OS X operating system has been discovered. The Mac OS X malware, dubbed Opener, is a rootkit for Mac OS X machines that contains a variety of destructive functionality including a keylogger and backdoor components.

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Mac OS X rootkit surfaces 2004-10-25
Anonymous
After reading the various posts about this script, I wonder why Apple has not done a few things to make this harder such as:

Alert users when someone is connected or attempting to connect to their computer via a network connection. (Currently there is nothing included in OS X's GUI to indicate th...

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