On Apr 5, 2012, at 2:04 PM, Tom wrote:
According to this news story on the Drudge website <http://
tinyurl.com/
6wgysep>, half a million Apple computers are infected with malware, a
trojan disguised as a flash update, that allows other people to hijack
the computer. They don't say what OS is involved, or whether every Mac
OS is at risk. Does anybody have any details, or is this just another
exaggerated non-story?
THIS from last fall
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/10/19/
fake_adobe_flash_malware_seeks_to_disable_mac_os_x_anti_malware_protecti
on/
more of that from this past Jan
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57358868-263/new-flashback-
malware-variant-follows-xprotect-update/
ABC NEWS SCIEINCE quoting some Russian blog
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2012/04/mac-os-x-report-virus-
infects-600000-computers/
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