Staff: Kelly Martin at SecurityFocus reports that, if you want OSX/Leap-A to infect your system you must be running OSX 10.4. Nothing else will do.
You must manually decompress an email or iChat attachment, view it, then whip out your administrative user name and password.
After all that work, Leap-A tries to inject code into executables but misfires, rendering them unable to execute or replicate.
Virtually every antivirus vendor says Leap-A is so hard to get, you may be forced to order it from Amazon.
That doggoned BSD sure makes Macs look good.
And everybody also wants you to know… Leap-A is emphatically not a virus. It’s a worm.
The Mac OS X Virus slate’s still clean.
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