More and more viruses these days are, in a way, joining the good side. That is, they’re pretending to be virus scanners that want to clean your computer from malicious files when they are, in reality, the malicious file themselves. For instance, names such as MacDefender, MacProtector and MacSecurity all fall under this category. Intego Security has uncovered another such virus naming itself MacGuard. “Unlike the previous variants of this fake antivirus, no administrator’s password is required to install this program,” warns Intego.

With Snow Leopard set to release this Friday, August 28th, many Apple fans are excited to both try it out and get some space back on their hard drive. Also, if you’re like me, you don’t really care that it doesn’t include any great, new features as long as it promises to be as stable and fast as Apple promises. However, one thing that would be extremely interesting to see at any point in time is Apple-developed antivirus built into the operating system. And that’s the rumor.