Apr 15, 2012 | Macintosh Viruses and Trojans
By Ed Bott In its ongoing battle to clean up the Flashback malware mess, Apple has now released a standalone removal tool. The downloadable utility is available exclusively for Mac owners running OS X Lion. It will not run on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) or earlier...
Apr 10, 2012 | Macintosh Viruses and Trojans
Apple has released a second update for Java to patch the vulnerability that allows the Flashback malware access to MacOS machines. This Java release is specifically targeted to MacOS-X Lion and shows as Java for OS X Lion 2012-002. Some of the Macintosh community have...
Apr 8, 2012 | Macintosh Viruses and Trojans
By David Murphy It’s been quite a week for Mac owners. And that’s all thanks to Flashback, a drive-by-download attack that requires absolutely no input by users in order to install itself on one’s Apple system. Visit a malicious website and...
Apr 6, 2012 | Macintosh Viruses and Trojans
Apple’s claims to be virus free are a thing of the past… The no-so-new FlashBack trojan with a botnet of 600,000+ macs doing it’s bidding has well and truly ended the Apple claim that viruses are a “PC thing”. More details on FlashBack If...
Apr 6, 2012 | Macintosh Viruses and Trojans
Have you read about the 600,000 strong MacOS-X botnet? Were you aware that a simple Java exploit was the cause? Further – were you aware that at LEAST since September of 2011 – that Apple knew of the flashback threat – and yet the Java distribution...
Apr 4, 2012 | Macintosh Viruses and Trojans
Russian antivirus company says half the computers infected with malware designed to steal personal information are in the U.S. – with 274 located in Cupertino. More than half a million Macs are infected with the Flashback Trojan, a malware package designed to...
