Flashback trojan reportedly controls half a million Macs and counting

Re:Flashback trojan reportedly controls half a million Macs ... by mkr-hn on Thursday April 05, 2012 @08:27AM (#3802241)

Malware creators are going to get more creative and more dangerous now that Windows is better and Macs are more popular. Technical countermeasures can only do so much against a determined mind with a strong incentive.

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Re:Flashback trojan reportedly controls half a million Macs ... by super_mario on Thursday April 05, 2012 @09:41AM (#3802477)

Windows is now better? What the fuck. You do realize this is Java exploit, and that recent versions of OS X don't even ship with Java. And on top of that this "malware" asks user for their admin password to install itself. And on top of that if you have dev tools or any of the popular system monitoring utilities it gives up!

Contrast that with typical Windows situation where no user cooperation is required to get infected.

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Re:Flashback trojan reportedly controls half a million Macs ... by prophetjohn on Thursday April 05, 2012 @10:32AM (#3802676)

Cool down, turbo, he's saying that Windows has improved from what it was in previous versions, not that Windows is better than OS X (the horror!)

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Re:Flashback trojan reportedly controls half a million Macs ... by super_mario on Thursday April 05, 2012 @04:07PM (#3804362)

He's also edited his post to make it less ambiguous.

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Re:Flashback trojan reportedly controls half a million Macs ... by mkr-hn on Thursday April 05, 2012 @04:09PM (#3804368)

I don't recall it being more ambiguous at any point, but my brain is bad at keeping revisions. Even if you're right, it doesn't excuse the tone.

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Re:Flashback trojan reportedly controls half a million Macs ... by mkr-hn on Thursday April 05, 2012 @10:07AM (#3802578)

Drop the hostility and reread what I said. I didn't say "Windows is now better than Macs."

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