New Apple Trojan Means Mac Hunting Season Is Open. The Mac has officially gone mainstream. The proof? On Halloween, professional online criminals were found using
Trojan-horse software to target, for the first time, computers running Apple's OS X operating system -- just as they have been doing for years
on the more ubiquitous flavors of Windows. "Apple's day has finally come, and Apple users are going to get hit hard," security researcher Gadi Evron said. "OS X is the new Windows 98."