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Re: More than 600,000 Macs infected with Flashback botnet
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04-11-12, 10:29 AM
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Re: More than 600,000 Macs infected with Flashback botnet
The torrent p2p network has been alive and kicking because it's been using zombie macs for years.
 Thanks for all the usage mac people lmao.
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04-11-12, 04:31 PM
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Re: More than 600,000 Macs infected with Flashback botnet
Word is that apple is considering (read: haven't done yet) releasing a tool to remove flashback. However this is after the trojan has existed for six months. In addition to this, apple ignored the first security firm that reported this to them, and as if that wasn't bad enough, they took steps to try to prevent that firm from probing the activities of this botnet.
This is proof positive that Apple is THE ABSOLUTE WORST OEM when it comes to security. Not by just a little, but by a LOT. In fact not only are they not doing anything about it, they are actively making the situation worse.
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04-11-12, 10:44 PM
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Re: More than 600,000 Macs infected with Flashback botnet
Yay my hackintosh is clean lol
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04-16-12, 02:03 PM
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Re: More than 600,000 Macs infected with Flashback botnet
Apparently another virus/trojan has been found: http://www.bgr.com/2012/04/16/second...vulnerability/
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04-16-12, 02:11 PM
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Re: More than 600,000 Macs infected with Flashback botnet
Yeah I heard about that a few days ago. Not really news though since nobody uses macs anyways.
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04-16-12, 09:17 PM
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Re: More than 600,000 Macs infected with Flashback botnet
2 in 2 weeks, maybe the Mayan calandar was right, the world is coming to an end!
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04-16-12, 11:10 PM
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Re: More than 600,000 Macs infected with Flashback botnet
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04-17-12, 09:52 AM
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Re: More than 600,000 Macs infected with Flashback botnet
Glad i don't have a Mac, in fact i was glad i dont have a mac before i read this thread....
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04-17-12, 12:58 PM
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Re: More than 600,000 Macs infected with Flashback botnet
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noob that thinks is safe(mac user) is worse then a noob that knobs that there are security issues(windows user).
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04-17-12, 07:45 PM
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Re: More than 600,000 Macs infected with Flashback botnet
+ 1 to the above.
The worst part is that the general public actually think macs are safe without having to have a second thought on the matter. Then on top of that the situation is made even worse by Apple trying to maintain this image at all costs... They actually think that if they don't admit that there is/could be a problem that there never will be? Well, they're being proven wrong now, at the cost of their customers security and privacy.
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04-18-12, 04:50 AM
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Re: More than 600,000 Macs infected with Flashback botnet
Top that off with Apple refusing to admit there is a problem, as Rakeesh :
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