[X4U] Trojan horse on the Mac?

[Craig A. Finseth]

   > The user of the Mac is probably in the address book of one of the
   > offending PCs, and the malware is sending out mail that claims to be
   > from the Mac user.

   In fact, the email addresses of all of your church's computers could be
   faked as the 'return' email address on the spam -- it's possible none of it
   originated on any of your computers. Every so often I get bounced email to
   one of my mac.com accounts -- rejected spam -- and I didn't send it.

I imagine the cable company is looking at outgoing port 25
connections.  So, the PC is probably sending out spoofed from
addresses.

Things to keep in mind:

- Macs runn as Windows machines using BootCamp or Parallels are just
  as susceptible to infection as any PC.

- There are no malware programs for the Mac _yet_.  While the Mac's
  (and Linux') process and security structure is such that they are
  inherently more resistant to infection than Windows at the OS level,
  they are just as open at the user level.  So, that YouTube (or any
  other) video could have code that affects a single Mac user's
  account.  While it is very easy to detect and clean, it can still
  cause problems.

Craig