In the coming days, Apple will deliver a Mac OS X software update that will automatically find and remove Mac Defender malware and its known variants. The update will also help protect users by providing an explicit warning if they download this malware.

The Macalope's still at a loss as to why the company supposedly won't let AppleCare technicians say the same darn thing it says in the technical note. If you speak the name of a Trojan horse three time does it appear like or something?

As any Mac user knows, you turn to a Windows blogger for the real reason behind any Apple action. Take it away, !

I want to give a public shout-out to some brave support reps who risked their jobs to identify a problem and force Apple to respond.

Uh, yeah. OK, the Macalope agrees that the AppleCare reps who spoke up about something that they didn't think was right do deserve credit. But suggesting that without their public complaints the company would have just sat on the Mac Defender situation and hoped that, like a cold, it would simply go away is assuming facts not in evidence.