Earlier this week we told you that Apple removed their once bold claims about virus immunity from their website. Hinting that Apple is aware that OS X is no longer completely immune to malware and viruses alike. Unfortunately it looks like another Tibet malware has surfaced, based off the same exploit that Flashback took advantage of [...]
The Flashback Malware is still around, and still infecting older Mac computers and some new ones too. The Malware uses a Java exploit to attack Mac OS X based computers. Apple released the Flashback Removal Tool to take care of the problem, but it wasn’t compatible with any other operating systems other than Mac OS [...]
Kaspersky Lab’s Chief Technical Officier told Computing magazine in an interview that Apple does not take security seriously enough. You might know Kaspersky Lab for their personal antivirus and digital security suites available for PC and Mac computers. According to the article, Apple is too slow to react to security vulnerabilities. The article references a [...]
Despite the numerous tools released to detect and remove the flashback trojan, 140K Macs are still infected, according to Symantec’s official blog. Symantec Corporation is the largest anti-virus company in the world. If you haven’t heard of them you’ve probably heard of their Norton Antivirus brand, enjoyed by all of fourteen people who didn’t uninstall [...]
Apple is taking quite a lot of steps to completely get rid of the Flashback malware problem and keep their record of having no viruses clean. Yesterday, they released the Java for Mac OS X update that automatically disabled Java on all Mac OS X operating systems to remove the Flashback malware. Now, they’ve released [...]
Apple has officially released a Java update for all Mac OS X computers that gets rid of the Flashback malware. Earlier this week, over 600,000 Mac computers were affected by this malware. We’ve already provided you with various methods to get rid of this trojan manually, if you were effected that is. However, now you [...]
Posted on April 12, 2012 by Jaden Ellett
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Almost a week ago we told you about a method for checking if you had the Mac OS X flashback Trojan that has infected over 600,000 mac computers. In case you are not aware of what the flashback Trojan is, it is a virus that comes in many forms and has been known to upload personal data [...]
The Mac OS X Flashback Trojan virus seems to have a lot of people worried lately, and for a good reason. The Flashback Trojan virus comes in many forms and has been known to upload personal data to a remote server. To make matters worse a Russian antivirus company that goes by the name of [...]