Mac Users Should Start Brushing Up on Old Techniques

Another new, although poorly written Mac OS X worm has been spotted in the wild very recently. It arrives through email and has the ability to open a backdoor (if it connects properly), attempts to create a botnet, has keylogging functionality, can send spam, and has the ability to join in to DDoS attacks. The worm is being called OSX/Tored-A. you can read more about this particular worm here @ZDNet.
Even though Mac oriented malware is becoming much more prevelant, judging by the comments I've read on any article involving a new attack, and by talking to my friends who use Macs, the population remains quite naive to the threats that these pose. I see a lot of the "It will never happen to me", or "Macs don't get viruses" arguments, even though it has been proven, and spotted in the wild, time and time again. I'll say it once again, malware authors could care less about what operating system you choose to run, they just want the biggest bang for their buck, and therefore will cater their malware to the most popular. With Apple's OS becoming increasingly more popular, it's not a question of if...you know the rest. I know you may be in denial, but if it were about anything else, you would agree with the obvious.
So with that being said I just wanted to warn Mac users about an extremely popular social engineering technique that is being used in a lot of the new (and older) Mac attacks. These have been used to infect PC users for at least ten+ years now. This is something you probably wouldn't think twice about if you feel you're completely secure, and that's how it works so well. This is the fake codec technique. This was probably made most popular by a family of PC malware known as Zlob (click the link, and scoll down for more about Zlob). The trick is that you are lured to a page where you're expecting to watch the coolest new video, or a shocking video a "friend" sends you. Once you try to play the video, you are prompted by a message that tells you that you are missing a codec or the proper plug-in to watch the movie, but luckily they have it for you right there, available for download. This codec is instead, malware which you just willingly installed.I know this may seem obvious now that you're thinking about it, but this technique has been very popular for one reason, because it works. Be vigilant, it's been speculated that Apple will start urging users to utilize internet security software within the next year and a half.
I also want everyone to know, that I'm not a platform hater. I would have a Mac too, if someone felt obliged to give me 2 grand, oh and one of those sweet giant Mac monitors I see in the Apple store.