Ondrej Holzman We are already at the end of February they wrote about a Trojan horse attacking computers Mac and even after more than a month, this problem has not gone away. On the contrary, the Flashback Trojan is infected all over the world to 600 thousand Maců a Apple so he was forced to release a patch that fixes the issue…
Flashback is a form of malware that can Macy installed due to old versions of Java, which are easily vulnerable. You can find out whether or not your computer is infected either with a few commands in the Terminal, or you can take the easier route and download the FlashbackChecker application, which will perform the same steps you would perform in Terminal and detect if a Trojan horse is present on your computer.
Apple In response to the infected computers, it has previously released updated Java plugins for Snow Leopard and Lion, but this did not remove any existing infection. So there is still a risk that less than one percent of the 45 million computers Mac a dangerous virus is running. The solution comes only now, when Apple Issued update Java for OS X 2012–003, which should remove all known variaFlashback and disable automatic Java startup applehere. Their automatic launch can be activated again in the Java settings. The update can be downloaded via Software Update.
Apple at the same time, it said that it is already working with Internet service providers around the world to stop the spread of this malware. Flashback relies on computer servers operated by the authors of this virus, and Apple trying to track them down.
But what does the Flashback problem suggest? It suggests that computers Mac are definitely not immune to viruses or that their authors will not be on Macy due to more computers with the operating system Windows On the contrary, there is a risk that viruses attacking Apple computers will start to multiply, so it is high time for him to start Apple something to do with the protection of your operating system.
Mac The OS will never be immune to viruses, the problem is that it is now becoming known to virus creators and as a pretty good platform. For example, ASLR or whatever that layer is called only became usable in 10.7, before that it was terrible shit :/
In any case, don't be surprised, people, that Apple he wants a Sandboxing application, if java is in the sandbox, it will kill only java, the system will not be affected ;)