“Flashback is not a Trojan according to security firm Intego.”
One thing that has struck me is this attempted deflection of how serious this is by the Apple fanboi community who are shrieking that this is not a virus.
Who cares? The people infected with this don’t care. The “bad guys” controlling the botnet don’t care. The website owners who are being attacked by zombie Macs don’t care. Apple doesn’t care as they have seen fit to release an OS X patch to fight this.
It seems that the only people who care are the Apple fanbois who want to deflect attention from the real damage this has caused to 1% of the Mac installed base, a percentage that is on par with Conficker (except that as an American, I notice that Conficker barely infected any American computers while Flashback has been hugely successful in the US so Flashback is actually orders of magnitude worse than Conficker to Americans).
So keep arguing that this isn’t a virus as 660,000 Macs get infected, then 700,000 Macs, then 1,000,000 Macs. They’ll be relieved to know that their Macs were breached by something that doesn’t fit the definition of a virus.
Article source: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/has-flashback-malware-made-you-consider-installing-antivirus-on-your-mac/19577
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