Re: AUGD: Recent Malware; What To Do About It
Re: AUGD: Recent Malware; What To Do About It
- Subject: Re: AUGD: Recent Malware; What To Do About It
- From: "Randy B. Singer" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:17:03 -0700
Macworld now has an article about this:
<http://www.macworld.com/article/1166254/
what_you_need_to_know_about_the_flashback_trojan.html>
I've now sent out a mailing to over 9,000 subscribers of The
MacAttorney Newsletter about Flashback, and I've posted about it on a
dozen Mac discussion lists. So I've reached somewhere around 20,000
Mac users. So far, not a single user of the many who have written
back has been infected with Flashback.
While I have no doubt that Flashback is real, and that it is a good
idea to do all that you can to protect yourself from it, I'm
beginning to think that much of this scare was hype invented by anti-
virus software firms.
Some research on the Web turns up speculation that the "600,000
infected machines" written about may not have necessarily been Macs.
It may include other OS's.
I wouldn't be surprised if, after all is said and done, that not a
single one of us will be infected by Flashback, and not a single one
of us will know anyone first-hand who has been infected by it.
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Randy B. Singer
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)
Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html
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