Even if you’re a Mac user, you have to be careful out there. According to Russian antivirus company Dr. Web, a trojan horse virus named “Flashback” that surfaced last year is believed to have created a botnet including more than 600,000 infected Macs around the world, with more than half of them in the U.S. […]
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Well, you’ve gotta admit, they’re persistent. Per Macworld and F-Secure, the Flashback Mac trojan uncovered by security firm Intego last year can now infect your computer from little more than a visit to a website. Originally, Flashback masqueraded as an installer for Adobe’s Flash Player. Since then, the malware has changed tacks at last once […]
On Thursday, shareware developer Maintain released version 5.1.4 of CocktailCocktail (Lion Edition), the popular shareware utility program that allows for additional Mac OS X system tests. The new version, a 3 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and features: – Fixed compatibility issues with Google Chrome 18 and Firefox 11. – Added the ability to […]
On Thursday, security firm Intego announced that it has discovered more strains of the Flashback Trojan horse. The company says that “many Mac users have been infected by this malware,” especially the latest variant, Flashback.G. Per Macworld, Intego describes three unique methods that the Trojan horse uses to infect Macs: It attempts to exploit a […]
While there may not be that many viruses out there for the Mac, there are still Trojan horse apps to make life a little bit harder. Here’s another. Per AppleInsider, a new Trojan horse hidden in a Mac OS X application can steal sensitive user data and take control of the computer’s GPU to generate […]