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Tuesday, Apr 13, 2004
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Info-Tech
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Viruses Alert to Mac users about MP3 virus Our Bureau
Hyderabad , April 12 SYMANTEC Corporation, security solutions provider, has spotted a potential threat that could affect Macintosh operating system. This MP3Concept (MP3Virus.Gen) has been described as a Trojan that imbeds MP3 data in an application. Once the file is executed, the Trojan executes and displays the following message "Yep, this is an application. So what is your iTunes playing right now?" After displaying the message, the program launches iTunes and plays the mp3 file, said a Symantec release. The Trojan will only execute if opened as an attachment. If the file is downloaded and opened through iTunes, the MP3 will play but the Trojan will not execute. This Trojan does not contain any malicious code.
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