It's quite usual to see worms and spyware on Windows systems but having them on the Mac OS X is something pretty unusual since its basically a Unix based system that's secure. A second worm attacking the Mac OS X system has been discovered over the weekend and basically, the OSX/Inqtana-A worm spreads between Apple Mac computers via a Bluetooth vulnerability. The new worm has appeared within days of the discovery of OSX/Leap-A, the first virus for Mac OS X.
Antivirus company Sophos says the first "real virus" that targets Apple's Mac OS X operating system has been spotted online, reports Forbes. Appropriately enough, it was a type of virus called a worm. A Mac rumors website first reported a sighting on Feb. 13, in the form of a file called latestpics.tgz, supposedly consisting of screenshots of the Leopard Mac OS X 10.5; however, despite displaying a JPEG icon when click on, it was an executable file.
The Inqtana worm, which may start at boot up, attempts to discover Bluetooth devices that will accept a file via the OBEX Push service (typically requiring user intervention). It exploits a vulnerability known as CAN-2005-1333 to spread itself to other vulnerable Mac OS X computers.
Apple, however, had released a patch against this vulnerability in mid 2005, meaning the worm is highly unlikely to spread successfully. Users of Mac OS X, however, have been advised to keep their software updated against the latest security vulnerabilities in Apple's code.
Read about The Max OS X History at Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_history
The Macintosh is widely regarded as, and credited for, popularizing the graphical user interface. The Mac OS has been pre-installed on almost every Macintosh computer ever sold. The operating system is also sold separately to the computer. The original Mac OS was heavily based on the Lisa OS, previously released by Apple for the Lisa computer in 1983, and also used concepts licensed from the Xerox PARC Xerox Alto which Steve Jobs and several other Macintosh team members had been previewed in December, 1979.
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