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Re: Is there a Flashback protection/fix for Mac OS X 10.5.8's vulnerable Java?

From Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch>
Subject Re: Is there a Flashback protection/fix for Mac OS X 10.5.8's vulnerable Java?
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.apps
References <Xaqdnd_fvMXPfOHSnZ2dnUVZ_s6dnZ2d@earthlink.com> <jlv84j0hv2@news3.newsguy.com>
Organization PostgreSQL and SQLite
Date 2012-04-11 10:37 +0200
Message-ID <hfsf59-82h.ln1@news.sture.ch> (permalink)

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On Mon, 09 Apr 2012 14:00:51 -0400, J.J. O'Shea wrote:

> On Wed, 4 Apr 2012 20:03:30 -0400, Ant wrote (in article
> <Xaqdnd_fvMXPfOHSnZ2dnUVZ_s6dnZ2d@earthlink.com>):
> 
>> Hello.
>> 
>> I read the recent Flashback trojan with Apple's Java. I have a client
>> who is still running Mac OS X 10.5.8 and noticed Apple released an
>> updated Java for Mac OS X 10.6. I assume there is none for unsupported
>> 10.5.8. Is there a way to remove its Java or protect it without
>> upgrading the OS?
>> 
>> Thank you in advance. :)
>> 
>> 
> It seems that the entire Flashback thing is much ado about nothing. See
> <http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?
docid=2011-093016-1216-
> 99>. If an AV vendor, who by definition has a reason to shout and carry
> on about a 'threat', makes a big deal out of something I usually regard
> their announcements with some suspicion. If, however, an AV vendor, who
> by definition has a reason to shout and carry on about a 'threat',
> declare that a 'threat' is, and I quote, of a 'very low risk level', and
> that they have detected '0-49' cases from '0-2' sites in the time
> starting 30 Sept 2011 (the day they first detected the 'threat') and
> ending 6 April 2012 (the day that the 'threat' assessment was last
> updated, well, I believe 'em. Symantec doesn't think that this is a real
> threat. Why should you? An AV vendor, looking to find something to
> trumpet so as to get people to buy their product, could only find less
> than 50 infections at one or two sites in _six months of looking_.
> Either they didn't look very hard or there's nothing to find.

Noted.

"Apple to release Flashback removal software, working to take down botnet" 
- Ars Technica

<http://bit.ly/ING3QM>



-- 
Paul Sture

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Is there a Flashback protection/fix for Mac OS X 10.5.8's vulnerable Java? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2012-04-04 19:03 -0500
  Re: Is there a Flashback protection/fix for Mac OS X 10.5.8's vulnerable Java? Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2012-04-04 19:54 -0700
    Re: Is there a Flashback protection/fix for Mac OS X 10.5.8's vulnerable Java? Malcolm <malcolm@invalid> - 2012-04-04 23:33 -0400
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        Re: Is there a Flashback protection/fix for Mac OS X 10.5.8's vulnerable Java? SY <205sk@accessforall.invalid> - 2012-04-05 16:35 +0200
          Re: Is there a Flashback protection/fix for Mac OS X 10.5.8's vulnerable Java? Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2012-04-05 12:19 -0700
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        Re: Is there a Flashback protection/fix for Mac OS X 10.5.8's vulnerable Java? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2012-04-06 09:29 -0700
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  Re: Is there a Flashback protection/fix for Mac OS X 10.5.8's vulnerable Java? Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-04-05 10:01 +0200
    Re: Is there a Flashback protection/fix for Mac OS X 10.5.8's vulnerable Java? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2012-04-05 01:55 -0700
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