Apple has denied that the malicious code dubbed 'Opener' is a worm, a Trojan or a virus of any kind.
Discovered a week ago, the Opener program – originally called Renepo - has the ability to disable the firewall in Mac OS X and steal user information. Security experts declared last week that it is almost unheard of for malware to target Apple computers, but said that this could be the start of a spate of attacks to come.
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