Peter Ferrie
Virus Bulletin, July 2005, pp. 4-5
ISSN 0956-9979
July 2005
There is a long history of rootkits on Unix-based platforms, such as Unix itself, Linux, BSD, etc. No doubt to the surprise of some in the Macintosh community, the MacOS X platform now has one too. We call it OSX/Weapox. It is written by someone who calls himself `nemo'.