Aaron Adams’s Blowhard Blog

Earlier in the week, MacInTouch reported a malicious script that the media and others immediately, and erroneously, labeled a virus. Wednesday, while co-hosting YML, Shawn King and I interviewed a representative from anti-virus creator Sophos, who said straight out that Opener has no way to reproduce itself.

After the interview, I brought up the point that Opener is not a virus, as reported by the tech press, nor was it a worn, as Sophos has designated it. Shawn asked, “Why is it important what it’s called?” I didn’t have a chance to respond, so I’d like to take that opportunity here.

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