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Hahaha, look at you guys.
600,000 Macs are POSSIBLY infected and you guys are foaming at the mouth about it. Didn't Apple sell close to 3 million Macs just last quarter alone?
How many PC's are currently infected with MALWARE?
And the funniest thing... the thing kills itself if it comes across any type of security:
On execution, the malware checks if the following path exists in the system:
/Library/Little Snitch
/Developer/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/MacOS/Xcode
/Applications/VirusBarrier X6.app
/Applications/iAntiVirus/iAntiVirus.app
/Applications/avast!.app
/Applications/ClamXav.app
/Applications/HTTPScoop.app
/Applications/Packet Peeper.app
If any of these are found, the malware will skip the rest of its routine and proceed to delete itself."
Additionally,
"In cases where the user did not input their administrator password, the malware checks if the following path exists in the system:
/Applications/Microsoft Word.app
/Applications/Microsoft Office 2008
/Applications/Microsoft Office 2011
/Applications/Skype.app
If any of these are found, the malware again skips the rest of its routine and proceeds to delete itself, presumably to avoid infecting a system that has an incompatible application installed."
Since the vast majority of mac users have Microsoft Office installed, and those that don't probably have one of the others (i.e. ClamXav) installed, this seems like a very limited threat.
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