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Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 355

I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 355. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Covid, smallpox, nVIR, but no more.

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virus

Covid (a coronavirus), smallpox (the variola virus), nVIR (a virus affecting Classic Mac OS, first reported in 1987), but no more (viruses are now almost unheard of for macOS).

2: Wooden animal concealing Greeks like DubRobber.

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Trojan

Wooden animal (the original Trojan horse from the Trojan War) concealing Greeks (it did, and ensured they were taken into the city of Troy) like DubRobber (a macOS Trojan also known as XCSSET, identified in 2020).

3: A thief like Amos can arrive by clickfix.

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stealer

A thief (a stealer) like Amos (AtomicStealer, AMOS, or SOMA, identified in 2023) can arrive by clickfix (now one of the most common means of its delivery).

The common factor

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They are types of malware that have affected Macs.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.