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Adware upsets Apple cart

Proof-of-concept code for an adware program that targets Apple's OS X operating system has been discovered.

The application installs itself through a feature in OS X that allows system libraries to be installed without notifying the user and could automatically launch a browser window every time the user opened an application.

November 28, 2006 |

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