[Swordmaker]

It actually sounds like the trojan that was included in the pirated download of iWork'09 on a couple of bit-torrent sites that was later confabulated with no evidence by two Symantec workers in a non-Symantec article as having infected 20,000 Macs and then, in concert, jointly performing a Denial of Service attack on an unnamed website... again without proof. It basically worked the same way by copying itself—which included a key-logger— into the startup folder in the System Library (with the active help of an idiot with an administrator password).

Since the so-called worm in this article wants to use an non-existing SMTP server, I cannot see how it can be called a worm. It will never send copies of itself to anyone.

[JoeProBono]

[Swordmaker]

Ho Hum... another proof-of-concept OS X worm that doesn't work. PING!

Mac Security with a FUD headline Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[lefty-lie-spy]

Ho-hum. Another “But Macs really, really do have viruses and stuff, just like windows d00d, so they are not awesome, man, and cost more than my clone box, and don’t have games, d00d” story.

This is like the MSM reporting on Bush Derangement Syndrome every month or so.

There is no virus, trojan, or worm that is a threat to MacOS.

[zeugma]

So it would seem that the usual precautions (not blindly opening every attachment that arrives by email, or every file that appears in shared folders) would suffice, and even if you are careless there may not be any real harm done.

from the sound of things, it's not even just a matter of opening attachments to email. After opening it, you apparently then have to actively give it permission to run, and then give it your administrator password. Sounds kinda not-to-bright to me.