More on the Macarena

It looks like the anti-virus folks are starting to come clean a bit with the new virus. According to a report from Macfixit, Intego says:

The virus can only infect Intel-based OS X computers. It consists of a C source file, an Assembler ‘dropper’ file, and documentation that explains how to create a virus that can infect Macintosh OS X binary files. Compiling the source code creates two binaries, the OS X virus file itself, and the dropper. The dropper is intended to infect Mac OS X binary files from a Windows installation on the current machine. This can be either via Apple’s Boot Camp, or via a virtualization application such as Parallels Desktop for Mac

This is interesting because I remember commenting that Windows on Mac may be the way that viri would start to invade (I can’t find it now, but it’s back there somewhere). Symantec also says that the binaries must be Intel specific and that the “virus” has no way of getting in directories that could really mess things up. The virus also has no reliable way of getting around (vector) so it’s a mute point.