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I'm not aware of any "traditional viruses" as you describe.

I've cleaned IRC bots off of people's OS X installations. They had SSH turned on, with username/pw combos like "bob"/"bob", and public IP addresses.

But you really have to intentionally make multiple poor security choices for something like this happen.

There are also quite a few remote code execution attacks against OS X - you can find details of these in Apple's security bulletin list:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222



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