[palmer]

BitTorrents are also typically used to send files, like pirated movies, that probably should be avoided in the first place.

Bit torrents are the gateway to hell, I had some SW installed once to get some very large file I needed for work (forgot what it was). The SW was unpredictable and used copious disk. I eventually removed it. Not recommended.

[Kid Shelleen]

Here are some more details. It looks like Apple has already provided a fix. Infected files were downloaded after 7pm on Friday, and before 2am Sunday morning.

if you try to open a version of the application that is known to be infected you will be given a warning message saying either, “Transmission.app will damage your computer. You should move it to the Trash,” or, “Transmission can’t be opened. You should eject the disk image.”

7 steps to protect yourself against over-hyped ‘ransomware’ threat