PC or I-MAC?

  • Thread starter Thread starter tonie
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Does the virus worm affect an I-MAC or just P.C.s?

There are several thousands known viruses and several hundred known
worms. I think you are asking about "Blaster".
This worm infects a computer using a well known security leak in
unpatched Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 systems.
There are other systems with a similiar security leak in the so called
"DCE (Distributed Computing Environment)" but there is no existing
virus/worm for those systems (until now). See
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/377804

Mac OS-X does not include DCE and is therefore immune to this kind of
attack. But there are others:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61798

Ciao, Walter
 
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