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Update on that Office Trojan thingy for OS X
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Oh yea, thinking it was an official demo...must've been a switcher looking at the warez sites.
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"Another classic science-fiction show cancelled before its time" ~ Bender
15.2" PowerBook 1.25GHz, 80GB HD, 768MB RAM, SuperDrive
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Hmmm... "was hoping for an official demo on Limewire."
See I might have tried that lie when I was younger, now it's pretty obvious 
Office 2004 is nice tho'. Well actually not THAT nice... I still prefer Mail.app and iCal to Entourage (whose threading is still janky). And Word's new notebook feature is absolutely CRUSHED by Circus Ponies Notebook. CRUSHED I say.
The project manager looks interesting, though because I don't use Entourage for anything else it's doubtful I'll use it. I've become somewhat of a Cocoa bigot.
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i guess i now have to create a user account specifically for pirating music and software.
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Originally posted by ThisGuy:
i guess i now have to create a user account specifically for pirating music and software.
 (gorickey is laughing)
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Originally posted by CatOne:
Hmmm... "was hoping for an official demo on Limewire."
See I might have tried that lie when I was younger, now it's pretty obvious
Yeah, I wondered about that, too. Interesting how this trojan seems to be distributed by shady, underground sources.
I think Limewire would be the last place I'd look for legitimate software.
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the trojan thing should have formatted his hard drive. 
some people are idiots.
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we don't have time to stop for gas
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and once again it's proven that idiots will run anything. 'the icon looked safe' my ass...  
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
- Thomas Jefferson, 1787
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Originally posted by juanvaldes:
'the icon looked safe' my ass...
Really, who in their right mind would think a Microsoft icon is safe, though? 
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...well she looked clean!
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What I want to know is, is the 'demo' packed out to make a decent size - or is it a 32k applescript? I don't use that p2p network so can't check. Still I'm betting it was a tiny script, and the guy was just an idiot.
Really this is about the ease with which these things can be distributed with the advent of p2p. I definitely remember there being similar scripts for OS 9 - called the Angel of Death - or something, but without p2p distribution the best way you could hope to get that level of direct access to the Mac community would be by putting it up on to a public server, where it would be spotted pretty quickly. In fact sh!t like this used to go around the hotline and carracho community all the time, it was just ridiculously easy to stop, and too embarrassing to admit being caught out by.
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I have Mac
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Why on Earth would Microsoft release a demo on LimeWire, of all places, anyway? This guy was, to use their colorful term, a "warezmonkey", and we all know it.
Listen up kids; piracy is bad, mmmkay?
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