Don't know if I missed a post on this or not but just reading an article
from "Messaging NewsWire" below.

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iChat Gets Bit
Long considered immune to virus writers, Apple got bit last month in a
show of increased popularity. OSX.LEAP.A infected computers through
Apple?s iChat instant messaging program. Once on the computers it
replicated and sent itself to all other computer users listed as contacts
in iChat. ?You will start to see more expoits, but only because Apple has
garnered a lot of attention in the past year, said Vincent Weafer, a
senior director at Symanec. Weafer was quick to point out that Windows is
still far more vulnerable, with its few hundred thousand viruses compared
to the 200 or so known for Apple. With the recent switch to Intel chips,
security researchers (and perhaps virus writers) are interested to see
what security holes could potentially be exploited. Another virus named
OSX.Ingtana.A spread itself through Bluetooth wireless connections to
Apple computers. Kinda hard to resist the apple and the worm analogy now.
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