New headline in the tech news today:

Another Trojan Targets Mac OS X

Yet another unscrupulous chunk of malicious software is being aimed at unsuspecting Mac users.

Security firms Sophos and Trend Micro are calling attention to a new Trojan application aimed at Apple Mac users. This Trojan, dubbed Imunizator, is similar to a previous attack called MacSweeper.

Wow! Yet another trojan for the Mac! This makes, what, three? With the first two being so incredibly lame that probably fewer than a dozen Mac users in the entire world have fallen for them? If even that many?

There are two monumental pieces of irony in this particular “malware” story. The first is: This … is … not … MALWARE. Calling it a “trojan” is, to say the least, an enormous stretch. Sophos actually calls it a “Trojan” in the “category” of “Viruses and Spyware,” which is completely ludicrous.

This is software that you have to actively locate, download, and then run. And then it does… nothing. It does not infect your system, does not inject any code into anything, gets past no security barriers, nothing. All it does is try to make you believe you have malware on your Mac, and prompts you to buy their software to get rid of it.

The second major irony here is that the Mac “security” vendors are warning people that this software “tries to scare Mac users into purchasing unnecessary software by claiming that privacy issues have been discovered on the computer.” The irony? That’s exactly what the Mac “security”vendors do all the time!!! I can see why they’d want to warn people away from this software–it’s trying to muscle in on their turf!