Anyone observing a noticable uptick in their spam this week? I think there may be a massive new botnet of zombified, oblivious, ignorant Macs. Thats right, Apple's fixes haven't done sh*t.
"Security firm Dr. Web released new statistics Friday showing that the process of eliminating Flashback from Macs is proceeding far slower than expected: On Friday the security firm, which first spotted the Mac botnet earlier this month, released new data showing that 610,000 active infected machines were counted Wednesday and 566,000 were counted Thursday. That's a slim decrease from the peak of 650,000 to 700,000 machines infected with the malware when Apple released its cleanup tool for the trojan late last week. Earlier in the week, Symantec reported that only 140,000 machines remained infected, but admitted Friday that an error in its measurement caused it to underestimate the remaining infections, and it now agrees with Dr. Web's much more pessimistic numbers."
Welcome to planet earth, OS X. Your faith-based anti-virus system is totally awesome.
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