New Mac trojan found to exploit same Java weakness as 'Flashback'

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  • Reply 21 of 23
    wingswings Posts: 261member
    If someone published an article about every new exploit for an already patched vulnerability in Windows, the internet would explode.
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  • Reply 22 of 23
    quadra 610quadra 610 Posts: 6,759member

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by lightknight View Post



    @john.b : don't forget to cut it off the Internet, shut it down, remove the CPU and melt it in a fire. You never know.

    Reminder to anyone with a brain: Java is a great language, that still represents a threat to Microsoft's .Net (you know, that huge reason why the Mac doesn't make it much to the Enterprise World). Java also means portability, which makes it a threat to Apple's AppStore.

    I don't want a world where Apple prevents the base user from installing whatever it wants and you can't run whatever you decide to run (right now, you actually need to command click before you run "external party" software!)

    Apple's behaving (in the interest of the user, yeah right, IE6 powers the average user to the Interwebs, in other news) in a very scary way, and it's our call to tell them that the boundary lies here. I want more Macs. I do'nt want Macs that are limited computers, I have iPads for that purpose.


     


    The market thinks otherwise. 

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  • Reply 23 of 23
    v5vv5v Posts: 1,357member

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by John.B View Post


    I finally decided it was time to just remove Java from all my computers.



     


    You're in for the same surprise I got when you try to start Photoshop.

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