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Not one of the Mac users on FR has reported being infected. That should tell you something about whether this is a widespread, or not. I still maintain this is a tempest in a teapot, like the previous Trojans.

A year ago, the installed base of Mac OSX computers topped 60 million. In the year since, Apple sold approximately 16 million more Macs, making a total of approximately 75 million OSX Macs in the installed base! A Trojan that can infect 0.8% of the installed base SHOULD be making waves on the forums by people reporting they have found it on their computers, especially in the US... so where are they? The word is out about how to find it easily and how to easily eradicate it.

I am not seeing ANY widespread reports of Mac users reporting they are infected. with a supposed 600,000, they should be all over the place, and they are not. Even in the comments in the articles, no one is reporting THEY are infected. Instead, you see numerous reports of people reporting "I am clean!" Nor are they reporting they KNOW of someone who found they were infected... only the security labs are reporting how to detect the infection on computers they have deliberately infected! That is why I say this stinks!

Note that the websites carrying the Trojan are NOT US websites... but supposedly the vast majority of the "infected" Macs are in the US (56.6%) and Canada (19.8%)... that alone is strange. There are lots of Macs in foreign places, but the Dr.Web does not find proportional infections in Europe or Asia. 46% of Mac sales in the past four-five years have been in Europe... but only 12.4% of the infections are there, with the VAST majority concentrated in the UK?? Germany has a large representation of Macs... and only 0.4% infected??? France has a large Mac presence... but only 0.6%? Macs used to be manufacture in Ireland, and have a very large presence there, especially ones that would be susceptible to this Trojan, but the infection rate is only 0.1%! What gives????. Japan has a very large Mac presence... but their infection rate is only 0.1%! Austraila, with a much smaller Mac presence than Japan has a 6.1% infection listing. Strange.