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Second Mac OS X pest found

Second Mac OS X pest found

Robert Vamosi Former Editor
As CNET's former resident security expert, Robert Vamosi has been interviewed on the BBC, CNN, MSNBC, and other outlets to share his knowledge about the latest online threats and to offer advice on personal and corporate security.
Robert Vamosi
Antivirus vendor F-Secure this morning reported a second Mac OS X pest, , which spreads primarily using Bluetooth. Yesterday, antivirus researchers reported the first Mac OS X virus, Mac OS X Leap, which uses Apple's iChat to attempt to download an infected image file. Of the two, Mac OS X users should consider Leap to be the greater risk. Leap can cause some Mac applications not to run and, in some instances, crash the infected machine.