Dr. Web, the Russian firm which first broke the story of the Flashback botnet running rampant on Macs, has said this weekend that the infection is not shrinking as claimed, and is instead growing.
Several security companies, like Kaspersky and Symantec, had claimed this week that the botnet is shrinking but Dr. Web says that number is still around 650,000, at least.
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Sounds to me like Apple folks aren't buying in to the anti virus software preventative measure as the PC crowd has. What level is 'denial'? I'm thinking they may have indeed tackled the virus, but the users just keep going back like 'god spawned' lemmings & keep re-infecting their machines.
You know, grandma keeps hitting the same damned banner that you told her not to cause it keeps telling her she won the trip to Jamaica.
I mean, the PC folk have for the most part learned to avoid certain things & culturally become skeptical of something that just has to jump, bounce, sparkle & dance with every primary color against a harsh contrasted background so as to dazzle you into touching it. It's like your device has to be a continuous sideshow freak.
I'm trying not to damn Apple here again, but in one way I'm saying their users need to grow up in the software scene as they truly have come into a new junction in their evolution. As I said in a previous statement...
Welcome to popularity... You have now drawn the proper attention to start having virus' written especially for you. You'd better get used to it. It's not going away. It's only going to get worse.
