Apple users are expected to be suffering a crisis of faith: it recently turned out the company’s faith-based security system failed to prevent more than 600,000 Macs throughout the world from being attacked by the Flashback Trojan.
The malware in question is meant to steal personal data from those hapless Mac users who have been doing nothing to protect their system except for twiddling their thumbs. Indeed, plenty of people are satisfied with the impenetrable fortress of security that Apple’s computers are, for some reason, perceived to be. Flashback Trojan worms its way onto OS X devices and demands administrator passwords. In case a user hands it over, the virus will install itself into the computer and comb for personal information.
Dr. Web, one of the major Russian antivirus companies, first reported that over 550,000 Mac machines
The malware in question is meant to steal personal data from those hapless Mac users who have been doing nothing to protect their system except for twiddling their thumbs. Indeed, plenty of people are satisfied with the impenetrable fortress of security that Apple’s computers are, for some reason, perceived to be. Flashback Trojan worms its way onto OS X devices and demands administrator passwords. In case a user hands it over, the virus will install itself into the computer and comb for personal information.
Dr. Web, one of the major Russian antivirus companies, first reported that over 550,000 Mac machines