<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><strong style="font-size: 17px; ">Tored email worm rears its head on Mac OS X</strong><br>----<br>Malware on Apple Macs continues to be nothing like as commonly encountered as on Windows computers - but that doesn't mean Mac users are completely immune from threats. Find out how a new email worm affecting the Mac platform caused a stir, but presents little threat in the real world.<br><strong><a href="http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2009/05/05/lame-email-worm-mac" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204); text-decoration: none; ">http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2009/05/05/lame-email-worm-mac</a></strong></span></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><b>----------------</b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><b>This note comes from today's Sophos Newsletter ... and is being passed on to you ... to keep Mac users informed on the status of malware on Apples running OS X.</b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><b>As time goes on we'll be updating you with any news we hear and place it in context of the numerous ( over 250,000 ) PC Windows threats on the web. </b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><b>That's right .... Macs are still way way better ..... and undeniably safer to use. Tell all your friends.</b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><b>Until that fact changes, expect us to keep on talking about this .... endlessly :-)</b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><b>Dave</b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><b>FYI</b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware</a></b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 23px; ">Malware </span>= "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -webkit-sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 25px; ">software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system without the owner's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informed_consent" title="Informed consent" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">informed consent</a> ...."</span></b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-sans-serif" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-sans-serif" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">And the key words here are "<b>informed consent</b>" .... so as we preach here often >>> </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-sans-serif" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-sans-serif" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">1. don't open unknown files </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-sans-serif" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">2. never enter your Apple administrator user name and password on anything you do not understand and intend to install.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-sans-serif" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">3. you can always check with us here on the listserve .... we are all here to help ....</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><b>OK .... I'm getting off my soap box now ....</b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><b>Dave</b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><b><br></b></span></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><b><br></b></span></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div></div></div></body></html>