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Re:Flashback trojan reportedly controls half a million Macs ... by cookiecaper on Thursday April 05, 2012 @12:11AM (#3801269)
Or LibreOffice, or Eclipse, or...

Java is plenty widespread. It's a good bet that most systems are going to end up with a JVM on disk somewhere after 6 mo - 1 yr of usage.

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Re:Flashback trojan reportedly controls half a million Macs ... by alanh on Thursday April 05, 2012 @01:07AM (#3801386)
I don’t know — those aren’t apps normal people install.

(And: The same people who install Eclipse, Minecraft, LibreOffice, or Photoshop are also more likely to have one of the apps that Flashback avoids co-habitating with: Little Snitch, Xcode, etc.)

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Re:Flashback trojan reportedly controls half a million Macs ... by shelfu on Thursday April 05, 2012 @11:21AM (#3802929)
Minecraft is _hugely_ popular with anybody under 14. To the point that it's no longer only nerdy parents that showed their kids it, it's kids hearing about it from other kids.

It's simple to buy and install and get working. There is no reason to assume that Mac users running Minecraft are going to also have Xcode or Little Snitch.

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