I think its bullcrap and so does Badger, well known Mac guy
It's probably not complete bullcrap, but...
ZDNet:
it is far from certain that Dr Web is correct in saying that more than 600,000 Macs have been infected. Dr Web used sinkhole tactics (PDF) to measure the size of the botnet, so the number is believable. What is not so certain is that they are all Macs.
Today, Aleks Gostev (@codelancer), chief security expert at Kaspersky Lab, tweeted that:
Last night we sinkholed one domain of #Flashback. We can officially
confirm size of the botnet – more than 500k infected hosts.
We are not sure that all 500k #Flashback bots are Mac users. I have
some suspicions that probably bot for Windows also presented itw
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Bold mine.
They are not certain. Imagine that. But Dr Web (where did he get that degree, for what, sending out bogus press releases?) went global with it. Typical.
Windows users gloating about this, make sure your Windows antivirus is up to date and running. You have that yearly paid subscription one, right? My son says it's the best. Forgot the name. Expensive, but what ya gonna do, when running Windows? Cough up the subscription dough and pray for the best. And make sure you're not already infected. Would not want you to get Flashbacked! That would be funny but I would not wish that on anyone. |
