[Swordmaker]

As usual, everything from Dr. Web is suspect. Dr. Web is the Russian A/V site that claimed to have found the amazing shrinking and finally disappearing Java based 630,000 member MacBot several years ago that turned out to have been a hoax to sell their newly released Anti-virus for Mac Business release. . . and last year rinsed and repeated the same plan with claiming to find ANOTHER java based 20,000 member MacBot when they were releasing their new Mac anti-virus for Personal Macs.

Dr. Web announced they'd found this first OS X MacBot with 630,000 member computers. . . but a week later the number of computers was down to 270,000, then shrank to 160,000 a few days later, then 120,000, then 80,000, then disappeared completely and out of the news cycle, never to be heard of again. . . as no one ever found one.

Not one member of either of these claimed MacBots was ever found in the wild. To get infected with the MacBot trojan, a user had to visit an obscure Russian language gaming site, download an infected Russian language game character definition, ignore the triple step warning of a known trojan provided by the operating system when downloaded, installed and first run, giving an administrator's name and password, for a game that had had fewer than 10,000 downloads. . . yet 95% of the so-called infected Macs were located in the English speaking USA, Canada, and Great Britain? RIGHT, Sure. Dr. Web's only evidence of these claimed existence of these MacBot computers is that they had setup a "honeypot" server to intercept the infected Macs as they called home for instructions and compiled a list of the UUIDs of those infected Macs.

Big problem. The list that Dr. Web had on their honeypot included OS X Macs that never had JAVA installed, a requirement to run the Trojan carrying the malware, UUIDs of Macs that had not yet been manufactured, and UUIDs that had never even been connected to the Internet to download the Trojan (I had two of those at my office). What Dr. Web had was merely a list of UUIDs of Macs. . . none of which were ever infected!

Now they are introducing their anti-Adware software for Mac. . . and they are claiming an epidemic of Adware trojans for OS X Macs.

[Swordmaker]

Dr. Web, the Russian A/V company that loves to cry wolf to sell their Mac products, is claiming that Apple OS X is being targeted with AdWare as they introduce their new Dr. Web anti-Adware product. — PING!

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