And I’m not talking about music here. The hackers – and hackettes since this sort of thing is an equal opportunity enterprise – have tasted the forbidden fruit and found Apple’s OS X to be quite tasty. There is a rapidly spreading variant of the Flashback Trojan called Flashback.S which is able to install itself WITHOUT a password.
Like its predecessors, Flashback.S exploits a vulnerability in Java. Apple was supposed to have issued a patch for it but . . .
This article gives a pretty good rundown of the situation and even includes a download which will detect and remove all variants of the Flashback pestilence.
Dr. Data’s advice to all Mac users is to get anti-virus protection . . . NOW!!! The article lists a number of both paid and free security solutions for OS X.
You have been warned!
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