Mac Owners Told ‘Don’t Panic’

Security specialists Sophos are doing a fine impression of Dad’s Army’s Corporal Jones with its latest advice to Apple Mac users, which is ‘Don’t Panic’. This follows the discovery of a Trojan horse web popup that targets OS X users, called Troj/MacSwp-B or ‘Imunizator’. Windows PC owners will be familiar with the trick it plays, it purports to be a security program checking for problems, which needless to say it finds, it then tries to frighten Mac users into paying out for bogus software. This is the latest in a number of attempts to fleece Mac users, and by all accounts it won’t be the last as fraudsters are finding Vista a tougher nut to crack, and Windows users are becoming more cautious. Like most of these things they’re easy to spot and whoever wrote has a problem with spelling, and provided you just ignore it and don’t click on anything no harm will be done.