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Apple Developing Tool To Remove Flashback
Trailrunner7 writes, quoting Threatpost: "Apple is planning to release a software fix that will find and remove the Flashback malware that has been haunting Mac users for several months now. ... Apple said on Tuesday that it was in the process of developing a tool that would detect and remove Flashback, but the company did not specify when the fix would be available. Security researchers and customers have been questioning why Apple hasn't yet provided a fix for the malware even though Flashback has been around in one form or another for more than six months now."
he would hire elite apple assasins to kill these supposed security researchers to stop the bad news
Would probably help if you didn't make it your desktop wallpaper.
Apple is still in disbelief that that Flasback is real.
No.. Apple is still trying to figure out if this is from Adobe or not.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it.
he would hire elite apple assasins to kill these supposed security researchers to stop the bad news
You fools, don't you realize Steve Jobs himself was the elite apple assassin?
Concealed under his black shinobi-shzoku-turtleneck was a lethal array of ninja weapons; many an unlucky Samsung executive or uncooperative tech-journalist has met their end at his hands, dispatched by a Firewire-cable garrot or iShuriken (they're like regular Shuriken, but with patented rounded corners). Gates himself has only survived thanks to the vigilant guard of his hulking 'roid-enhanced genetically engineered gorilla henchman.
He was a shinobi of un-matched caliber, until his fateful battle against Google-fu masters Page and Brin, when he was felled by the Pancreas Death-Strike technique.
Bah Ur doin it wrong, let the old Hairyfeet show you how to REALLY insult all three OSes!
1.-if the patch comes out on linux it will be 14 pages of CLI and a tarball that will need a specific version of GCC, if they put it in the repo upon application it will throw you into single user mode on first boot. you DO know how to edit your config files, right?
2.-If the patch comes out on Windows it will take 2 hours to install, followed by an hour on the "waiting to shutdown' screen and ANOTHER hour on the "Please wait, configuring Windows" boot up and may God have mercy upon your tortured soul if the power goes out while that is happening!
3.-If the patch comes out on Apple it will be a year behind, but it will come in a cool silver look and everyone will talk about how truly wonderful it is. it doesn't actually patch anything "bad" it just brings sprinkles of Steve's magic to your poor pathetic life because "hey Apple never gets viruses' so everything you've read here? Total lie spread by those Windoze and Lunix luzers because they can't afford magic sprinkles, poor bastards.
Now THAT is how you insult all three boy! I'd insult the BSD guys while I was at it but they'd be so damned grateful that anybody even mentioned them at all they'd probably thank me for doing it which just takes all the fun out, its like kicking a really stupid puppy that just smiles and wags its tail at you.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
If it came out for BSD, the dependency check would trigger a complete recompile of KDE 4.x, bogging down your desktop for 34 hours. After it was done, everything would work fine, but in all practicality, you wouldn't be any safer because face it, you're running BSD; no one gives shit about you.
I don't always use unix-like operating systems; but when I do, I prefer FreeBSD.