Flashback Trojan Hits 600,000 Macs and Counting

twoheadedboy writes "A Flashback variant dubbed Backdoor.Flashback.39 has infected over 600,000 Macs, according to Russian security firm Dr Web. The virulent Flashback trojan infecting Apple machines sparked interest earlier this week after it was seen exploiting a Java vulnerability, although it was actually first discovered back in September last year. The Trojan has a global reach after Dr Web found infected Macs in most countries. More than half of the Macs infected are in the US (56.6 percent), while another 19.8 percent are in Canada. The UK has 12.8 percent of infected Macs."

Macs don't get hacked

[Dunbal]

Is it just wrong if I laugh a little?

Re:Macs don't get hacked

[ifrag]

Is it just wrong if I laugh a little?

Try to keep it to a low chuckle. The reality distortion field might break under greater strain.

Re:Macs don't get hacked

[alphatel]

Is it just wrong if I laugh a little?

Try to keep it to a low chuckle. The reality distortion field might break under greater strain.

It just works!

Haha

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:Macs don't get hacked

[fermion]

My surprise is that there are 600K running macs to infect. I thought macs were just bought by rich people to display in there offices while they really used a PC. Clearly this article is propaganda.

Re:Macs don't get hacked

[Tarkadot]

So, now that the Reality Distortion Field is weakening, it's time to activate the Someone Else's Problem field?

Re:Macs don't get hacked

[ByOhTek]

... I tried to find where I should insert the Prozac. I tried the optical disc tray, but that didn't fix it. How do I unsad my Mac?

Re:Macs don't get hacked

[crazyjj]

No, college kids love them. They use them to tweet out messages encouraging their fellow students to fight evil corporations.

Re:How to tell whether you are infected

[ArhcAngel]

Summary:

If you open Terminal and run

This just offended or confused 90% of the MAC users

Re:Macs don't get hacked

[19thNervousBreakdown]

Everybody knows us nerds are suckers for a pretty face with a bit of rouge.

Re:How to tell whether you are infected

[Anonymous Coward]

You know, when you claimed that "no sensible person ever said, "Macs don't get infected"...", I got a little ticked off, because based on my experience, it seemed that NEARLY ALL Apple users had claimed this.

Then I realized, we're both right.

Re:Macs don't get hacked

[the_Bionic_lemming]

Nobody ever claimed Macintoshes were bulletproof.

Hi, I noticed you are new here, and just thought I'd welcome you.

Re:How to tell whether you are infected

[Bill Hayden]

This just offended or confused 90% of the MAC users

The fact that you wrote Mac as MAC offended or confused an even higher percentage of Mac users.

Re:Macs don't get hacked

[cp.tar]

Who targets less than 1%?

The 99%?

Re:Macs don't get hacked

[tripleevenfall]

Agree totally. There's no need to pirate closed-source software when good open source solutions exist.