Cavalos (de Tróia), Minhocas e demais bicheza

Sophos alerta para primeiro vírus destinado ao Mac

Só que não é um virus!
É um worm [é muito diferente]
Ou um cavalo de troia.

Primeiro Troiano para Mac - macnoticias
Apple pronuncia-se sobre o OSX/Leap-A: não é virus - macpress
Possible Mac OS X Trojan Horse (mostly harmless) - tuaw

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Para quem não está interessado em ter Cavalos (de Tróia), Minhocas e demais bicheza dentro do seu Mac, é favor ler com atenção as seguintes sugestões da própria Apple:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=108009

Só alguém muito burro abre uma aplicação desconhecida e dá a chave de administrador

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MacDailyNews Note: Symantec's OSX.Leap.A page states, "Number of infections: 0 - 49." Why do the number of news articles outnumber the absurdly low number of "infected" machines by something like 100-1? Some of these "writers" who are banging out "Mac cultists smug no more, Macs just as porous as Windows, Mac plagued by viruses, Mac this, Mac that" articles are going to need new keyboards due to excessive drool. Who benefits from the proliferation of the impression that "Macs have viruses" that's being misstated everywhere from Buffalo to Bangalore?

A couple of additional notes courtesy of MacDailyNews reader "PoPa" about Leap-A:
• Leap-A can't transmit itself over the Internet, only over LAN.
• The default config of a Mac is immune even if were on an infected LAN. (It can't spread on a LAN unless a lot of factors come together, including the user enabling Bonjour in iChat, which is very seldom done.)

Symantec threat assessment: [2006 Fev 18]

• Number of infections: 0 - 49     :D
• Number of sites: 0 - 2
• Geographical distribution: Low
• Threat containment: Easy
• Removal: Easy