05-20-2011, 03:20 AM
Wow. Lots of misinformation out there. The current threat is malware. It is not a virus. I was affected by this two days ago. I clicked an image in Google image search and the download of the malware began. That is all. My iMac did not ask me if I wanted to install it like it normally would and therein lies the problem with this new threat. Because I had disabled the option in Safari to automatically open downloaded items, I would have had to open it manually. For people who have this option enabled, this malware program opens automatically without entering a password and without clicking that you want to open it and apparently shows porn and whatever else. As it was, I stopped the download while in progress and deleted it from my downloads folder.