[dayglored]

I gotta admit, Swordmaker, this is looking more and more like a fraud, for the purpose of... what? Hoping to drive Apple's stock price down? Preparation for Windows 8 launch? or just some stupid A/V researcher getting bored and deciding to kick up some dust?

Here's my current take on it:

1. The Java vulnerability is very REAL.

2. The vulnerability is exploitable and malware exists that uses it.

3. Apple took an inordinately long time to produce an appropriate security update.

4. Somebody decided it was an opportunity to attack Apple and announced a huge botnet.

I actually hope that it's either REAL (i.e. that there are real infected Macs out there), or that it's an HONEST mistake.

Because the only other possibility -- that the A/V community has stooped to fabricating huge, worldwide lies -- is extremely troubling. These are the people we trust our computers to, to keep them safe. WTF???!?!!!!

[Swordmaker]

NEWS FLASH!

"Symantec said today the number of bots had been cut to 270,000 as of 11 April, whilst yesterday Kaspersky said the number had been reduced to 237,103 as of 8 April. Almost all infected machines are Apple Macs."

WOW! Kaspersky was widely quoted on the 10th as confirming the 600,000 number... but they KNEW on the 8th that it was only 237,103??? I smell FISH! Rotten fish!

I am still not finding ANY infected Macs... not one. If true, the infection rate is less than 0.4%...