Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 17th Feb 2006 20:17 UTC
A second strain of malware targeting Mac OS X has been discovered days after a Mac OS X Trojan appeared on the scene. The latest malware, Inqtana-A, is a proof-of-concept worm that attempts to spread using a Bluetooth vulnerability. The worm is not spreading in the wild and uses an internal counter that means it will expire on February 24, so it's unlikely to ever be much of a problem. Nonetheless, Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) users are still advised to make sure they're patched up in order to guard against attack from any future worm that uses the same exploit. In related OSX news, there's more fuel for the tablet-Mac fire.
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2006-01-07
well.. as for the first virus... from all the info I've been able to read it only affects users running the 10.4x variants of macOS. Seems that it uses spotlight to spot its favorite targets. So maybe disabling spotlight( there are a few programs that do this) would help. Being a cheapskate.. im still running 10.3.9.. the article says i'm not affected. LOL i also dont have a bluetooth module....Lucky me??