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The recent reemergence of the Flashback OSX trojan has shown a lot of things, but none more clearly than this: I have no clue how to counter virus and...
I remember telling friends and supervisors multiple times that if a major Mac virus or trojan were to emerge, I would be at a complete loss as to how to fight it. This is probably still true, as the emergence of the Flashback trojan has shown most clearly.
The most recent version of Flashback targets a unpatched Java vulnerability in OSX, one that Oracle fixed months ago but Apple never got around to relaying. Now, I’m still not entirely sure what Flashback does, but I was pretty completely clueless on how I could fight it. This is the bitter reality of being a Mac owner in 2012. I have very little idea of how to keep my machine safe.
And I imagine many other Mac owners feel the same way.
If the half million Flashback-infected Macs are any indication, ===> Mac owners are all going to need a crash course in computer safety. And fast. <===
