What is the Oompa-Loompa Trojan Horse?
The Oompa-Loompa Trojan horse, also called OSX/Oomp-A or Leap.A, affects Macintosh computers running Mac OS X. The Oompa-Loompa Trojan horse infects applications on computers where it runs, enabling those applications to in turn spread the virus, and can propagate by sending itself to users’ iChat buddies on a local Bonjour network. How can Mac users protect themselves from this Trojan horse? Intego VirusBarrier X and VirusBarrier X4 eradicate the Oompa-Loompa Trojan horse, using its virus definitions dated February 14, 2006 and later, and Intego remains diligent to ensure that VirusBarrier X and VirusBarrier X4 will also eradicate any future Trojan horses that try to exploit this same technique. Is there more than one version of this Trojan horse? The Intego Virus Monitoring Center has isolated three versions of this Trojan horse so far, and is monitoring suspicious activity to ensure that there are no others. What does this Trojan Horse look like? Initially appearing in a compressed
