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Permit me not to freak out over a trojan. There's no conceivable way to protect perfectly against self-install malware.

What? Yes there is. There are multiple solutions.

1. AV program catches the attempt, prevents the installation.

2. Much simpler from Apple's perspective: prevent installation from outside the App Store.

0 day?

How is this new? http://macscan.securemac.com/spyware-list/

Thanks. That was sort of my point. That and the ambiguity in the answer I was responding too.

I did, actually. Before I responded to you. Your comment was, however, thoroughly ambiguous. What "it"? Your response here doesn't exactly convince me to be more concerned than I was last week.

Woof: http://daringfireball.net/2011/05/wolf

His links to the Apple forums to "confirm" what a big deal this is:

"I have never found more than one or two in-the-wild reports. This time, the volume is truly exceptional."

I went to the forums and searched for Mac Defender, Apple Security, and Mac Protector and found a few dozen posts. Plenty of people posting straightforward solutions.

Definitely a nice piece of linkbait.