Looks like the worms are in the Apples!

[bluesbassman]

Welcome to our world.:(

For years, Mac users have long been rightfully smug about their platform's relative immunity to virus and malware attacks, but it's inevitable that those days will eventually come to an end. (As the Mac gains in popularity, it also earns more attention from malware developers, and it's this lack of malware being actively developed, not some special, inherent security, that have really kept the Mac a "safe" platform for the time being.)

Now we're seeing one of the first moderately-sized exploits to take advantage of Mac users. The iServices.A Trojan horse is an attack being distributed via BitTorrent, where it's disguised as a bootleg copy of the new iWork 09. Once installed, the malware takes administrator access and connects to remote servers over the Internet, where it can be given additional instructions as the author commands, from installing additional malware to stealing information off the Mac in question. The malware creator can also take complete remote control of any compromised machine.
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http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/117188

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear bluesbassman!

Yikes!

I don't think my Mac-using husband has any protection against malware...

He's careful, though...

I will alert him!

Thanks for the heads-up...

:hi:

[bluesbassman]

2. You're welcome.

I've got to have a chat with my Macbook using daughter. I really, really dislike the people who write that crap.:grr:

[NYC_SKP]

3. Dear Peggy,

Don't worry too much.

The virus mentioned only infects mac users who download "torrents", a peer-to-peer way to share files (like Napster).

There is only a risk if the user downloads an application to do this, then goes out to find material to download, and the files are often illegal copies of movies, or music, or software, or (are you sitting down?) porn.

Unless your husband is downloading torrents, he should not be at risk.

All my best, NYC_SKP

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. Thanks!

He does not download torrents!

Porn? Not him...After all, he has me...;-)

[bluesbassman]

5. Thanks for the clarification.

Hopefully they're still a ways out from the kind of garbage that threatens the PC/Windows users.:thumbsup:

[NYC_SKP]

6. You bet!

And man, downloading a bootleg of iLife is scandalous, iLife is the mac equivalent of MS Office.

And it's very risky, like downloading an operating system from a stranger in Russia and expecting it NOT to be devious.

Thanks for the post, it's good to know about these things! :thumbsup: