SSC Marketing Comments On The Finding That Half A Million Mac Computers Infected With Malware

April 13, 2012 - PRLog -- More than half a million Apple computers have been infected with the Flashback Trojan, according to a Russian anti-virus firm. Its report claims that about 600,000 Macs have installed the malware potentially allowing them to be hijacked and used as a "botnet".  Dr Web, from the firm, says that more than half those numbers are based in the US. Apple has released a security update, but users who have not installed the patch remain exposed. A representative of SSC Marketing said “Trojans are probably the worst virus you can get as you can imagine when it gets into your computer it is spreads to all your files, passwords and details and once in your computer this virus is very hard to destroy. In our opinion we feel Apple should have handled this better, protect the Macs more securely, this is the 21st Century there is nothing on the internet that we can’t fix. Society today were social media sites and online banking is very much part of our everyday lives you would think that they would have taken better precautions.”

Flashback was first detected last September when anti-virus researchers flagged up software masquerading itself as a Flash Player update. Once downloaded it deactivated some of the computer's security software. Later versions of the malware exploited weaknesses in the Java programming language to allow the code to be installed from bogus sites without the user's permission. “Where the internet is concerned their needs to be certain boundaries enforced to help protect our private details on our computers, We treat the internet so lightly these days we don’t see it as the danger it is. Trojan viruses are so infectious it’s no wonder that the people are in outrage.” said SSC Marketing.

Although Apple's system software limits the actions its computers can take without requesting their users' permission, some security analysts suggest this latest incident highlights the fact that the machines are not invulnerable. “Security analysts are right these machines are not invulnerable and we need to remember that although we feel like we have protected our computers to the highest standard there are ways for these people to get through, we need to remember that while we think its safe to upload all our personal files and passwords it is not.” Said the Managing Director of SSC Marketing.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17623422

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