Look, for-q-Clinton, You have been told this repeatedly... quit acting as though this were a new discovery. Quit being so disingenuous... and trollish.
It is a TROJAN... all operating systems are susceptible to Trojans... OSX less so because it has a built in Trojan detection that is NOT dependent on third party add on software for such protection and will identify known Trojans and prevent them from being downloaded or being installed. Apple has already PATCHED the Java Runtime vulnerability this exploit depends on to operate and pushed it out to OSX users. Apple has also already pushed out the signature of this Trojan to its built-in detection system, 24 hours or so after its discovery. Apple users ARE protected.
This is a basic non-story we have seen numerous times when a new variation of an existing (which they said) Trojan is released. The only Apple OSX users who were at risk were those who had not upgraded in the past two years, and who have installed Java Runtime on their previous installations of OSX... even THEN, although it was included with the distribution, the Java Runtime applet was an optional install. Now, Apple does not include it and, if a user wants it, he has to download it and install it.
The number of Trojans in the wild for Apple OSX is now about 20... compared to how many for Windows?
Correction it’s malware as it installs without needing the admin password. If you have the admin password it just makes it even worse for the system.
Funny how that works. I thought the only way to get malware on OSX was via the admin password. Looks like I was wrong or misunderstood what all the macbots told me. I’m glad I didn’t jump on that ship and convince my friends and family to go with OSX because it was malware proof. I’d have egg on my face if I did.
How many for windows? Depends, if I use your definition of always changing to explain away any issues then I could argue 0, but we know that’s not an honest answer just like OSX not being able to be attacked without the user giving up the admin password.
BTW: The slammer virus which is blamed on windows was a SQL issue and not an OS issue. Granted it was a Microsoft server, but as I’ve always said...Windows gets blamed for way more then it deserves simply because it’s easy and the users are ignorant. Many issues with windows is caused from Adobe products, but users will just blame windows.