AOL’s Microsoft Deal Revives Speculative Patent Frenzy Eric Savitz Forbes Staff Oracle And Google Spar Over Java Patents For Android OS Trefis Team Contributor Who Apple Hasn’t Bought Brian Caulfield Forbes Staff Image via CrunchBase The Flashback malware is now estimated to have infected almost 2 percent of Mac systems….
Flashback malware infects 2% of all Macs
Computerworld – Nearly 2% of the Macs whose owners have checked their computers have been infected with the Flashback malware, according to a Russian antivirus company. Of the 55,000 users who have used Dr. Web’s free tool to determine whether their Macs had been infected by Flashback, just over 1,000…
Has Flashback malware made you consider installing antivirus on your Mac?
“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…
An Easy Way To Check Your Mac For The Flashback Malware
Mac Flashback Trojan: Are You Infected? How Do You Remove It? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes Contributor Researchers Confirm Flashback Trojan Infects 600,000 Macs, Used For Click Fraud Andy Greenberg Forbes Staff Why My iPad Will Never Replace My Xbox Sean Kilachand Forbes Staff Installer (Mac OS X) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) With the…
Mac Malware Outbreak Is Bigger than ‘Conficker’
An estimated 600,000 or more Macs are currently compromised and part of a massive botnet thanks to the Flashback Trojan. To put the size of the threat in some perspective, the Flashback Trojan botnet is even bigger than the massive Conficker botnet…relatively speaking. The Conficker botnet compromised an estimated seven…
How to reinstall OS X after malware infection
The recent Flashback malware for OS X has caused a bit of a stir in the Mac community, and while it has only affected a fraction of the OS X install base, it still has had people who have indeed found the malware on their systems writing in to CNET…
Flashback the largest Mac malware threat yet, experts say
(Credit: Intego) Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past week, you’ve probably heard about Flashback, a piece of malware targeting users of Apple’s Mac OS X that’s now estimated to be quietly running on more than 600,000 machines around the world. That number, which came from Russian…
Malware Authors Get Boost from Apple’s Sluggish Updates, Infect 600K Macs
Print 5 comment(s) – last by ShaolinSoccer.. on Apr 6 at 10:22 AM (Source: Science Photo) Apple refuses to let Oracle patch Java directly, cybercriminals celebrate 2 months of easy hunting If you have a Mac and you browse the internet, there’s a chance your “secure” Apple, Inc. (AAPL) computer…
Malware on half a million Apple computers
MOSCOW, April 5 (UPI) — More than half a million Apple computers have been infected with malware, potentially allowing them to be hijacked, a Russian anti-virus firm says. More than half the infected computers, which could be taken over and used in a “botnet,” are based in the United States,…
How to remove the Flashback malware from OS X
While OS X was relatively void of malware for the first 10 years of use, recently malware scares have cropped up that have affected a significant number of Mac systems. One of the first was the MacDefender fake antivirus scam, which had people issuing credit card information out of fear…