Tim: Can you provide a link to the F-Secure instructions page? Phil
On Apr 5, 2012, at 10:11 AM, Timothy Driscoll wrote: > <http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2012/04/flashback-trojan-reportedly-controls-half-a-million-macs-and-counting.ars> > > Flashback trojan reportedly controls half a million Macs and counting > By Jacqui Cheng | Published about 16 hours ago > > Variations of the Flashback trojan have reportedly infected more than half a > million Macs around the globe, according to Russian antivirus company Dr. > Web. The company made an announcement on Wednesday—first in Russian and later > in English—about the growing Mac botnet, first claiming 550,000 infected > Macs. Later in the day, however, Dr. Web malware analyst Sorokin Ivan posted > to Twitter that the count had gone up to 600,000, with 274 bots even checking > in from Cupertino, CA, where Apple's headquarters are located. > > We have been covering the Mac Flashback trojan since 2011, but the most > recent variant from earlier this week targeted an unpatched Java > vulnerability within Mac OS X. That is, it was unpatched (at the time) by > Apple—Oracle had released a fix for the vulnerability in February of this > year, but Apple didn't send out a fixuntil earlier this week, after news > began to spread about the latest Flashback variant. > > According to Dr. Web, the 57 percent of the infected Macs are located in the > US and 20 percent are in Canada. Like older versions of the malware, the > latest Flashback variant searches an infected Mac for a number of antivirus > applications before generating a list of botnet control servers and beginning > the process of checking in with them. Now that the fix for the Java > vulnerability is out, however, there's no excuse not to update—the malware > installs itself after you visit a compromised or malicious webpage, so if > you're on the Internet, you're potentially at risk. > > If you think one of your machines may be infected, F-Secure has instructions > on how to use the Terminal to find out. > > > tim > -- > earth:usa:virginia:blacksburg:toms creek basin > > behindtherabbit: twitter | facebook | diigo | tumblr > rabbitwocky : chat | skype | blogspot > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Better than sec? Nothing is better than sec when it comes to > monitoring Big Data applications. Try Boundary one-second > resolution app monitoring today. Free. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Jmol-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users J. Philip Bays Emeritus Professor of Chemistry Department of Chemistry and Physics Saint Mary's College Notre Dame, IN 46556 [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Better than sec? Nothing is better than sec when it comes to monitoring Big Data applications. Try Boundary one-second resolution app monitoring today. Free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
