Apple Macs infected with Flashback Trojan
05 April 2012, 09:55 PM
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05 April 2012, 11:15 PM
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Take this opportunity to disable Java. Just type Java into Spotlight and you'll find the preferences app. 99.9% of users won't miss it. You're reading an example of how third party software is dragging your machine into the Windows Cess Pit.
If you're feeling brave search for Click to Flash or Click to Plugin, you then have to click on Flash content to play it but again you're another step away from the hellish environment Windows users endure.
If you're feeling brave search for Click to Flash or Click to Plugin, you then have to click on Flash content to play it but again you're another step away from the hellish environment Windows users endure.
05 April 2012, 11:58 PM
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Jack,
You are so full of ****e it isn't funny anymore.
Flash a huge security risk? Java a huge security risk? What next, users using the Internet a security risk?
Grow up.
No doubt this issue will cause even more publicity, and the share price will go up again. Not that I'm bothered, I got in at 87p a share way back
You are so full of ****e it isn't funny anymore.
Flash a huge security risk? Java a huge security risk? What next, users using the Internet a security risk?
Grow up.
No doubt this issue will cause even more publicity, and the share price will go up again. Not that I'm bothered, I got in at 87p a share way back
06 April 2012, 09:35 AM
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http://www.t3.com/news/600000-apple-...y-trojan-virus
The infection continues to rise which is no surprise since the majority of Apple users have the misguided view that Macs are immune to malware and continue use their Macs unpatched as if nothing has happened. I stated a while back in previous debates that as Macs became more popular that eventually they would be subject to this kind of wide scale infection but was dismissed by the fanboys at the time. Also Apple have been slow to address this vulnerability since this the Flashback trojan was first spotted on OSX back in 24 February!!
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/n...the-wild/10411
Slate Windows all you want but at least Microsoft addresses these issues in days, not months!
The infection continues to rise which is no surprise since the majority of Apple users have the misguided view that Macs are immune to malware and continue use their Macs unpatched as if nothing has happened. I stated a while back in previous debates that as Macs became more popular that eventually they would be subject to this kind of wide scale infection but was dismissed by the fanboys at the time. Also Apple have been slow to address this vulnerability since this the Flashback trojan was first spotted on OSX back in 24 February!!
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/n...the-wild/10411
Slate Windows all you want but at least Microsoft addresses these issues in days, not months!
06 April 2012, 12:53 PM
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Macs have always had little problems with Virii and the like due to the fact that it wasn't worth writing a virus for so few users, diminishing returns and all that. Now there are many more Macs in circulation with little to no virus protection they have become a viable target, and that will only get worse. Apple users will continue to believe the hype that OSX is immune form these problems until it gets much worse.
Microsoft has had a free virus program that is extremely good for free for many moons, and this has been the best option for windows, directly competing with the inbuilt protection of OSX, there is no need to install such resource hogging rubbish like Norton and the anymore, so all the myths that Windows PC's are slower than MACs due to virus protection are long gone.
Sure the warning for this trojan has come from an Anti Virus company, but contrary to Jacks usual cynicism, they only advise installing the latest Java and not being dumb enough to click accept security certificate, not install the software they may sell.
Even so, some Mac users will still argue it is BS, that is fine, they will be the ones to suffer in the long term, windows users are getting better and free AV software, I am sure Apple will do the same, it will just require people to sit up and take notice rather than stick their head in the sand and say it isn't a problem.
Microsoft has had a free virus program that is extremely good for free for many moons, and this has been the best option for windows, directly competing with the inbuilt protection of OSX, there is no need to install such resource hogging rubbish like Norton and the anymore, so all the myths that Windows PC's are slower than MACs due to virus protection are long gone.
Sure the warning for this trojan has come from an Anti Virus company, but contrary to Jacks usual cynicism, they only advise installing the latest Java and not being dumb enough to click accept security certificate, not install the software they may sell.
Even so, some Mac users will still argue it is BS, that is fine, they will be the ones to suffer in the long term, windows users are getting better and free AV software, I am sure Apple will do the same, it will just require people to sit up and take notice rather than stick their head in the sand and say it isn't a problem.
06 April 2012, 04:36 PM
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06 April 2012, 04:43 PM
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OK, here's a question that I used to ask my customers, Which viruses have you had lately?
No viruses for me. I did get clickjacked on Facebook, but that's schoolboy stuff.
No viruses for me. I did get clickjacked on Facebook, but that's schoolboy stuff.
06 April 2012, 05:14 PM
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Jack, Scoobynet has a search function that you can use if you can't remember what you said, but I and everybody else knows that you asserted that Mac OS is the most secure OS and malware was simply not an issue for Macs. Well Flashback trojan has proved you wrong. You also said the same for iOS, well I guess we'll have to wait for that, but for now those lemons must be pretty bitter for you. 
06 April 2012, 05:40 PM
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On execution, the malware checks if the following path exists in the system:
1) /Library/Little Snitch
2) /Developer/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/MacOS/Xcode
3) /Applications/VirusBarrier X6.app
4) /Applications/iAntiVirus/iAntiVirus.app
5) /Applications/avast!.app
6) /Applications/ClamXav.app
7) /Applications/HTTPScoop.app
8) /Applications/Packet Peeper.app
If any of these are found, the malware will skip the rest of its routine and proceed to delete itself.
1) /Library/Little Snitch
2) /Developer/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/MacOS/Xcode
3) /Applications/VirusBarrier X6.app
4) /Applications/iAntiVirus/iAntiVirus.app
5) /Applications/avast!.app
6) /Applications/ClamXav.app
7) /Applications/HTTPScoop.app
8) /Applications/Packet Peeper.app
If any of these are found, the malware will skip the rest of its routine and proceed to delete itself.
Richie.
06 April 2012, 05:50 PM
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Jack, Scoobynet has a search function that you can use if you can't remember what you said, but I and everybody else knows that you asserted that Mac OS is the most secure OS and malware was simply not an issue for Macs. Well Flashback trojan has proved you wrong. You also said the same for iOS, well I guess we'll have to wait for that, but for now those lemons must be pretty bitter for you.
I would never say that Malware is not an issue for any operating system, and certainly not any applications.
06 April 2012, 05:53 PM
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06 April 2012, 06:18 PM
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Even so, some Mac users will still argue it is BS, that is fine, they will be the ones to suffer in the long term, windows users are getting better and free AV software, I am sure Apple will do the same, it will just require people to sit up and take notice rather than stick their head in the sand and say it isn't a problem.
There is already free anti virus software for OSX, I use Sophos which is free for OSX and a leading global AV provider. That's what's so absurd, people deliberately choose not to have AV on their MACs when there is a leading product they can have for free.
06 April 2012, 07:02 PM
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It was just the later variants that started checking for stuff Jack. I guess the evil muppets release newer versions to increase it's successful delivery. God only knows why Apple waited 8 weeks from the time oracle/sun fixed it, a patch should have come out within the first week imo. Ah well.
06 April 2012, 07:59 PM
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Sun releases a patch and then Apple release it in their own time once they have veted it. Anyway this will all change very soon as Apple are turning away from the onus on them to release the Java updates as reported a while back and it will be up to the users to update their own systems
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-20020338-260.html
Last edited by SwissTony; 06 April 2012 at 08:01 PM.
06 April 2012, 09:55 PM
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Unfortunately they did Jack, you know what Apple are like.
Sun releases a patch and then Apple release it in their own time once they have veted it. Anyway this will all change very soon as Apple are turning away from the onus on them to release the Java updates as reported a while back and it will be up to the users to update their own systems
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-20020338-260.html
Sun releases a patch and then Apple release it in their own time once they have veted it. Anyway this will all change very soon as Apple are turning away from the onus on them to release the Java updates as reported a while back and it will be up to the users to update their own systems
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-20020338-260.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57...a-big-problem/
06 April 2012, 10:42 PM
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06 April 2012, 10:58 PM
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06 April 2012, 11:34 PM
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Don't believe the hype.
07 April 2012, 08:16 AM
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