> Has anyone run into this on their Apple systems?

No. I manage ~25 Macs in a university research lab. All our users have administrator access, and (rarely) do something ill advised. I've studied the few OSX malware released so far, but have yet to lay hands on this one.

They all have one thing in common: They all run exclusively in user space, and require tricking the user into escalating privileges.

The vast majority of my time is (squandered) keeping the 100+ windows boxes clean and healthy.

I really wouldn't sweat these trojans.

FWIW:

Well, [that figures...](http://www.totaldefense.com/support/security-advisor/news.aspx)

I never did find anything that seemed like a genuine infection. It seems as if our AV software did more damage than anything else.

&gt; Has anyone run into this on their Apple systems?

No. I manage ~25 Macs in a university research lab. All our users have administrator access, and (rarely) do something ill advised. I've studied the few OSX malware released so far, but have yet to lay hands on this one.

They all have one thing in common: They all run exclusively in user space, and require tricking the user into escalating privileges.

The vast majority of my time is (squandered) keeping the 100+ windows boxes clean and healthy.

I really wouldn't sweat these trojans.

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