Flashback trojan reportedly controls half a million Macs and counting

Re:Flashback trojan reportedly controls half a million Macs ... by pooriaazimi on Wednesday April 04, 2012 @09:10PM (#3800764)

I seriously doubt that 600,000 macs were infected... How do we know this number is correct? Because a completely unknown security firm that sells Mac antivirus software ("Dr. Web", a russian antivirus company) tweeted about it!

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Re:Flashback trojan reportedly controls half a million Macs ... by kokoge on Thursday April 05, 2012 @10:52AM (#3802761)

> completely unknown security firm

Completely unknown? It's on the market almost for 20 years.

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Re:Flashback trojan reportedly controls half a million Macs ... by fpgeek on Thursday April 05, 2012 @12:29AM (#3801307)

Fair enough, with one caveat: Everyone who trumpets security/anti-virus company press releases about Android should be required to shout about 600k Macs just as loudly. I wonder how many will.

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Re:Flashback trojan reportedly controls half a million Macs ... by ralfd on Thursday April 05, 2012 @06:04AM (#3801957)

I also am extremely skeptical.

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