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Flashback trojan reportedly controls half a million Macs and counting

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jram said:
I'm clean but was humbled by this article someone sent to me. I'm still not going to get a AV, I don't even have Java installed on my Mac running Lion, have it disabled in Snow Leopard.
DailyTech - Apple Admits Its Macs Have a Malware Problem
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I have been part of Anandtech and Dailytech since the beginning. Jason who wrote that article is a total Apple Basher. He has never written a positive column about Apple products. Funny thing is Anand himself is a big apple user.
 
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Is it true there is another one, or is that just malicious rumour? :Confused:
 
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It would help if you could post where you heard these murmurings.
 
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This is one of them.

Pretty sure I saw one after that, but can't remember where. I will post it if I can find it again :)
 
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Sophos has data on a new trojan (here) which is once again successful because Apple has taken its sweet time patching Java. More info here.

Oracle really needs to regain control of Java distribution for OS X because I think Apple has proven that they can't patch it with any speed. I understand why Apple took control from Sun originally (OS level integration) but I'd much rather have a working and patched installation over one that "looks pretty." Ugh...
 

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