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> There were also several for Mac OS (pre X)

That's not none in the wild ever. HN can sometimes be a bit literal. (I didn't downvote parent and I've applied an upvote to correct it).

But also click-to-run trojans are malware. They might not be self replicating; some aspects of OSX might limit the harm; but they are malware and they do exist.



>But also click-to-run trojans are malware.

Yeah, they are. But nothing one can do about them besides sandboxing apps (which OS X already does for MAS apps).

At some point, when you click on an app you allow it to execute what code it has.

So the real worthy of the name malware to me is that that spreads by itself without user intervention. E.g. as a virus, or by visiting a page which uses some exploit, etc.




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