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Virus for the Mac OS X

Symantec reported that Mac OS X is being threatened by a virus named OSX.Macarena, discovered on November 02, 2006.

OSX.Macarena is categorized as a low wild-level virus, that considered at Risk Level 1 Threat Assessment. Number of Infections is limited and Geographical Distribution still at a low spread situation.

The OSX.Macarena appends itself to files in the current directory on the compromised computer, in which the virus duplicates itself to affect the system at a mild damage.