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just works -- except when you're infected  Apple, Inc. (AAPL)
has long maligned the Windows PC as being virus laden, while
promoting its own Mac computers as being immune to such evils.
 But despite this "It just works" publicity campaign, recent OS
X malware [1][2][3][4] has forced Apple onto the
defensive, silently rolling out tools to remove malicious
programs from users' computers.  I. Malware Enslaves Unwitting
Mac Users' GPUs  Now another piece of malware has struck
unsuspecting Mac owners.  The new multiplatform trojan, reported
in the wild by security firms Sophos Security and Intego, is
much more sophisticated than most of the past malware to hit the
Mac platform.  The malicious program installs as part of
infected torrent downloads from sites such as The Pirate Bay.
 Thus far the malware has been primarily found to be
piggybacking on pirated copies of the image editing app
GraphicConverter version 7.4 (whose authors are not involved in