That is a BS statement... re-analyzing the data provided by Doctor Web, it was found that they had exaggerated the threat by quite a bit... and that the number was 227,313 IF THAT... since no one is finding any infected machines in the WILD!
Doctor Web was claiming that you could submit your Mac's UUID to them and have them check with the CONTROL SERVER for the MacBOT to find out if you were infected, but KNOWN clean machines so submitted to their automatic checking site, some without JAVA being installed at all, were being reported as being members of the botnet!, including brand new Macs, right out of the box!
This—combined with the dearth of infected machines being reported on all the forums—pretty much proves the botnet a hoax in my book—made up of artificially generated UUIDs from the known range assigned to Apple Macs!
Thank you for all you do. I’ve no other source for straight skinny as good as yours.