[Swordmaker]

Apple has taken legal action to take down Doctor Web's sinkhole server... which so far is the only identified FLASHBACK server on the web—PING!

Mac users are notorious for complaining when something goes wrong. If there WERE a 600,000 member Macbot out there, the number of infected users would be all over the forums announcing their machines infected and asking for help in removing it. I have been diligently searching to tech and non-tech forums seeking users who are reporting that THEY have Macs that have been infected by this Flashback Trojan... and I am simply NOT seeing them saying they are using the tools provided and found their computers infected. Even on the Apple help forums, at the peak of the news, there were only 217 comments, most asking how do "I detect this?" and reports back about "My computer is clean!" The few that I have found are obvious non-Mac using trolls...

So, WHERE ARE THE INFECTED MACS? I am simply NOT FINDING THEM!

Do any of you Freeper Mac user's have it?

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[PA Engineer]

Do any of you Freeper Mac user's have it?

Nope. Clean. Some could argue that Flash itself is a destructive virus because of the resource hogging. The only place I have heard of the "virus" is here of FR by non-mac users. SSDD.

[Sir_Ed]

None of my Macs have it.

Ed, hoping for a Mac Pro refresh!!!

[dayglored]

So far out of about 20 Macs owned by friends and family, ZERO infections. And not one of those people knows anyone who has found it. No one has even heard about anybody who has it who is identifiable.

NOT EVEN ONE CONFIRMED INFECTION YET OUT HERE. Still looking around, of course...

[antiRepublicrat]

Historically, Apple hasn’t had a very good relationship with security researchers. Most companies don’t. It took a long time for Microsoft to wake up and realize they essentially constitute free security research for the company.