Comments on: Mac malware: Flackback hackers fail to cash in

By: Mac malware: FlashBack is nearly dead - FairerPlatform

Mac malware: FlashBack is nearly dead - FairerPlatform — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 06:41:58 +0000

[...] MacFixIt’s Topher Kessler notes that Flashback first appeared as a fake Adobe Flash Player installer and morphed over the ensuring months into a drive-by attack that ultimately to that big, nasty and ultimately unprofitable botnet. [...]

By: Java for OS X Lion, Snow Leopard updates, Apple tries again | FairerPlatform

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 01:00:47 +0000

[...] 10.6.3 — Hands on with Norton iAntivirus 1.0 — gDirectLinks cleans Google search links — Mac malware: Flackback hackers fail to cash in — Perian calling it quits after final update [...]

By: John

John — Thu, 17 May 2012 14:24:48 +0000

So in the end, this was another “the sky is falling” from the anti-virus companies who have been doing the chicken little thing for years.