I'm wondering if my new (2008) MacBook may have fallen prey to this malware. In over 14 years of using Macs (several laptops and desktop models), I've never had a hard drive crash -- till about a month ago. Then out of the blue I lost a whole 120G hard drive (Mac OSX 10.5), including a lot of video files I was still working on. (I had backed up the videos I had finished editing, including quite a few but not all from the 2008 Getaway, but the ones that were currently "in progress" were not backed up, for the most part,

I kept the hard drive, though it can't be recovered by the geeks at the authorized Mac stores, because it's possible some files might be recoverable by those who take the hard drive apart to do that. (When I win the lottery, I'll get right on that project.)

As for questionable software, I never download software from sites that I haven't sought out myself, but I really don't know which ones can be trusted and which ones can't.

I'll keep abreast of this thread for new info.

Genie