Apple's Leopard shows up on file sharing sites

The file claimed to be the preview edition of Leopard given to attendees at Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference, held in San Francisco last week.

But participants at the conference are prohibited from disclosing some information presented during the proceedings by non-disclosure agreements.

The file found on several popular BitTorrent file-sharing Web sites was labelled "APPLE MAC OSX LEOPARD V10 5 WWDC PREVIEW-BETAOSX 443061 499".

ZDNet Australia has as of yet been unable to download the file to verify if it was legitimate or simply a hoax.

Macintosh users are hotly anticipating the release of Leopard, which will include a slew of new features and is due to make it to the market early next year.

Apple chief executive Steve Jobs gave the public its first glimpse of Leopard during his keynote at the WWDC last week, simultaneously announcing several other products, including server and desktop hardware based on Intel's new dual-core CPUs.

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1. bad idea Anonymous -- 14/08/06

   if one is gullible enough, downloading something like that is a very good potential way to get malware or a rootkit into your system.
   
   I realize people can't wait to get the latest and greatest on their computers, but I hope they aren't THAT desperate and stupid.

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   1. amen deepkid -- 14/08/06

      amen. but alas, some are that stupid and beyond.

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   2. Aren't you forgetting something? Anonymous -- 15/08/06

      We are talking about Macs here. Has anyone ever seen any malware for OS X yet? If I were to try and develop first ever malware for the Mac, I don't think I would build a 4GB ISO (or DMG) trojan to get people to 1.) wait for three days to download; 2.) burn to a DVD and 3.) boot from this DVD in order to infect their hard drive. I could probably think of stupider ways to spread malware around Macs; not many, though.
      
      If it says WWDC 10.5, it probably is. It is altogether another question, though, whether it is any stable or usable (or even PPC, for all of us still using G4s and G5s...).

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   3. it is possible Anonymous -- 15/08/06

      it wouldn't take all that much to substitute one of the components/files on the DVD image with another one that some person with the right skills and tools had created/modified to include some bit of code to do whatever. Then, put that new modified disk image up for downloading, and voila!

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2. Real Anonymous -- 15/08/06

   It's real. But no tracker wants it. So the only way to get it is by manually adding the ip:peer or via PE/PXE (Peer Exchange), which limits working clients to uTorrent, Azureus, and Bitcomet. Only one of the 3 is fully supported on OS X.

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3. It is the real thing Anonymous -- 15/08/06

   It is the real thing it runs fine on a MacBook and won't fit on a single layer DVD...

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   1. what now? Anonymous -- 15/08/06

      Hi Anonymous.
      
      First you say only gullible people would tryout this beta, later that it works fine.
      What now?
      Does it really work?
      No malware in it?

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   2. file sharing Anonymous -- 30/07/08

      i recion file sharing is good because you can sen music to your friends without paying

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