Must... resist
The Shadenfreunde temptation, she is beink strong.
Malware coders have created a Mac-specific Trojan that is designed to attack anti-malware defences built into Apple's Mac OS X operating system. The Flashback.C trojan disables the automatic update component of XProtect, OS X's anti-malware application, net security firm F-Secure reports. By wiping out files, the malware …
It's a trojan, not a virus or a worm. In other words, you have to download an app from an dodgy web site and enter your admin password to authenticate when it tries to install itself... and then bad things might happen? I'm shaking in my boots with fear at the mere thought of how dangerous my world has suddenly become.
Macs have always had trojans - which require convincing the user to install them. Hell, every operating system out there is vulnerable to convincing the users to install stuff. This is not news.
The big news will be with the first MacOS virus - that propagate without user intervention. I note that the total count on those is still... zero. I have no doubt that some day some clever clogs will create one, but so far nobody has.
Not really, *BSD and GNU/Linux distributives and apparently not. For these OS's 99.99 % of software installation and updates happen from central repositories/ports through package managers using checksums and PGP. Of course, repos/ports may as well be fooled/hacked to get end users install malware.. well that never happened.
This free and open software has luxury, proprietary and non-free Mac OSX and Windows cannot afford