The products of Apple have hardly been vulnerable to viruses
or worms. However, history is in the making. There’s a Trojan called Flashback
that is on a Mac-infecting spree all over the world. By now, it has taken more
than half a million Macs in its grasp and is still threatening to devour many
more.
According to the experts in the field, this could potentially
be one of the biggest security threats that have hit the Macs until now. It has
been more than a couple months now that the Trojan is playing with the Macs and
its security. The Trojan targets Macs that are run on the OS X.
Dr. Web is a security solution vendor in Russia, which boasts
of the details and how danger the Flashback can be. The United States has seen
the largest amount of infected Macs with more than 56%. Canada is at number two
and the United Kingdom stands at number three in the most infected list of
Macs.
If people visit a JavaScript code, the system gets infected
easily. As a matter of fact, there are loads of sites with this malicious code
and infected pages. Once the link is activated, an exe file is downloaded and
the PC gets infected.
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