{"id":335,"date":"2006-02-17T23:36:04","date_gmt":"2006-02-17T16:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=335"},"modified":"2006-07-23T23:42:37","modified_gmt":"2006-07-23T16:42:37","slug":"apple-users-hit-by-worlds-first-mac-os-x-virus-siliconcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/computer\/apple-users-hit-by-worlds-first-mac-os-x-virus-siliconcom\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple users hit by world&#8217;s first Mac OS X virus &#8211; silicon.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hardware.silicon.com\/desktops\/0,39024645,39156522,00.htm\">Apple users hit by world&#8217;s first Mac OS X virus &#8211; Desktops &#8211; Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com<\/a><br \/>\n<em>For more info click on above link<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Mac malware threat is real, say security experts<\/p>\n<p>By Andy McCue<\/p>\n<p>Published: Thursday 16 February 2006<\/p>\n<p>The first virus to target Apple&#8217;s Mac OS X operating system has been discovered in the wild, according to security experts.<\/p>\n<p>The virus, called Leap-A, was discovered by UK antivirus company Sophos and spreads via the iChat instant messaging system. It forwards itself as a file called latestpics.tgz to contacts on the infected users&#8217; buddy list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple users hit by world&#8217;s first Mac OS X virus &#8211; Desktops &#8211; Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com For more info click on above link The Mac malware threat is real, say security experts By Andy McCue Published: Thursday 16 February 2006 The first virus to target Apple&#8217;s Mac OS X operating system [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-viruses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}