19 Nov
2001
19 Nov
'01
10:51 p.m.
At 03:22 PM 11/20/01 +1300, Greg wrote:
\>I can't think of a way for a virus to jump onto a disk on a Mac simply
by the disk being there, without any virus-infected
program
running. Unless a virus has attacked the Finder or the OS itself,
which is a possibility, I suppose.
But even then, the virus can't jump *off* the disk onto a previously
clean system without running something from the disk, and that won't
happen unless you explicitly tell it to. If there's some way for that
to happen on Windows, then Windows is definitely more virus-friendly!
Weren't there some mac viruses that would attach to the resource
fork of a volume/file and then simply by opening the folder to
browse it the virus code would run?
carlos.
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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo(a)nospammers.ieee.org