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A Week After Apple's Fix, Flashback Still Infects Half a Million Macs 161

Posted by timothy from the retract-all-advice-to-mom dept.
Sparrowvsrevolution writes "Security firm Dr. Web released new statistics Friday showing that the process of eliminating Flashback from Macs is proceeding far slower than expected: On Friday the security firm, which first spotted the Mac botnet earlier this month, released new data showing that 610,000 active infected machines were counted Wednesday and 566,000 were counted Thursday. That's a slim decrease from the peak of 650,000 to 700,000 machines infected with the malware when Apple released its cleanup tool for the trojan late last week. Earlier in the week, Symantec reported that only 140,000 machines remained infected, but admitted Friday that an error in its measurement caused it to underestimate the remaining infections, and it now agrees with Dr. Web's much more pessimistic numbers."

Comment Re:All those people... (Score 1) 85

by bmorency (#38720128) Attached to: China Internet Users Hit Half a Billion

Most people in the USA have duplicate first+last name....if you live in US, put your name here: http://howmanyofme.com/ Only 3 people have my first + last name

Does anyone know of a site like this for other countries? I live in canada and just wanted to check it out. Just for the heck of it I entered my name into the site above and it came back as 1 or fewer with my first and last name.

Comment Re:Still doesnt excuse (Score 1) 280

by bmorency (#36822042) Attached to: Carmack Addresses FPS Creativity Concerns

Most indie games seem to take one approach or the other, either be a clone, or be completely different than anything else (or a clone with a *twist*! that might as well be a clone).

What kind of game do you want that isn't a clone and not something completely different than anything else? What does that leave you?

Comment Re:So true (Score 1) 366

by bmorency (#35263838) Attached to: The Death of BCC
I wish people would use BCC when sending an email to a bunch of people they don't know. It also helps to not advertise everyone's email address. A co-worker got an email , I think it was just a joke or something from someone that she knows and it had a lot of people in the to field. Not too long after she received that email she got another mesage from someone else that must have been in the list saying thanks for everyone's email address. So now a spammer got a hold of all these people's active email addresses.

It's also a pain when people forward these type of messages and leave everyone elses addresses that received this message prior.

Comment Re:Microsoft is fighting back (Score 1) 324

by bmorency (#29070759) Attached to: Dell Says High Linux Netbook Returns a "Non-Issue"

if anyone hasn't noticed, Apple and Microsoft have been playing very nice together since last year.

Can anyone explain to me why MS has been playing nice with Apple but not with Linux? I have never understood why they are doing that but they try so hard to stop Linux adoption. Mac's are the ones putting the bigger dent in their desktop marketshare. You would think they wouldn't be releasing Office and other things on that platform to keep people from switching away and decreasing their markethare even more.

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