Well, considering security researchers already published instructions for removal,
this is good for those who can't enter a few simple commands.
this is good for those who can't enter a few simple commands.
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One problem with that theory: It's easy for a computer to guess. Using a string of real words means that it's a simple matter of plugging in a word list on your cracking software and that'll be cracked in a couple minutes. Entropy is important, but isn't everything.
Five or so random letters and symbols followed by a bunch of periods would be better, in theory.
Why is it named "Flashfake"? That doesn't give me a lot of confidence. Is it fake?
Why not just call it the Flashback Removal Tool?
Why not just call it the Flashback Removal Tool?
Oh thank god it's not a virus. That means the 600,000 people infected with this trivial non-virus dodged a bullet.
Oh thank god it's not a virus. That means the 600,000 people infected with this trivial non-virus dodged a bullet.
Snarky comments don't really work when you have a fundamental misunderstanding of the severity of different kinds of malware.
Not that I blame you. Using OS X doesn't give you much of a reason to become familiar with such things.
What? Minecraft? lol
Java is inherently awful. If you need to use it... I am very sorry
You don't understand grasshopper. The issue is not the infection... it's Apple's denial and delay in delivering the "cure".
The cure would be to stop using Java. Java always has security issues, just like flash. It's awful software.
Not getting infected by malware is up to you and your online practices. Relying on Apple to update Java to protect you isn't going to work. We've known for a while now that Apple takes it's time with Java updates.
I do however agree that Apple should step up it's game as far as updating and not defaulting Safari to just automatically run Java.
I agree. I am by no means tech savvy but I was able to follow the directions for using the terminal commands. Both machines are clean.
again you really have no idea about java. It has a lot of pluses. Java is Compile once run everyone. All the others require having the code compiled for the respective OS. This means you are not tied to a single OS.
Java on OSX tends to lag behind everyone else which is 100% Apple fault. Apple has been very slow on updating it and tends to be behind.
The security issue on Safari running Java by defaulting is Apple fault. All the other browsers tend to at least ask you.
But then again there is a reason why safari user bases is still in the others catigory.
Yes, I know Java is cross platform. However, that becomes a bane once you realize that Java is a walking, widely accepted, Swiss cheese of security. Holes everywhere. There's constant vulnerabilities and it just doesn't run good on top of that.
I know the default running of Java is Apple's fault.
No one needs to develop in Java. It just happens to be easy to do.
The fact that you say no one needs to develop in Java speaks volumes about your understanding (or lack of understanding) of Java.
Say I need to make some type of app that I need to run in client computers to finish some install process. Now if I was not using java I would need to have some program for windows, another for linux, and another for OSX.. If it was java I would need just one and it would do everything I would need it to do.
You seem to be under the impression that Java is the only thing that can do that...
You also seem to be under the impression that the security and stability issues in Java aren't a big deal.
I ran across this java article that talks about disabling java via utilities>java preferences. Can anyone comment on it's validity?
Disabled JAVA, Firefox crashes on launch?
So to be safe I disabled Java in the Java preferences app and now Firefox 11.0 crashes when I attempt to launch it?
Safari does NOT crash?
I'm using OSX 10.6.8 and can't upgrade to Lion because of software compatibilty issues with Lion.
So to be safe I disabled Java in the Java preferences app and now Firefox 11.0 crashes when I attempt to launch it?
Safari does NOT crash?
I'm using OSX 10.6.8 and can't upgrade to Lion because of software compatibilty issues with Lion.
Use at your own risk.
I can't believe I did this so blindly.
I downloaded and used the Kapersky Flashfake Removal Tool app and now I can't log in. I get the spinning beach ball after I type my password and hit enter. Safe mode results in the same thing. Any ideas??? Early 2011 MBP.
I can't believe I did this so blindly.
I downloaded and used the Kapersky Flashfake Removal Tool app and now I can't log in. I get the spinning beach ball after I type my password and hit enter. Safe mode results in the same thing. Any ideas??? Early 2011 MBP.
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Thanks I'll give that a try.
Just to be clear it's not necessary to disable Java in the Java preferences app then too?
I'd rather just use the Apple tool. Looks like Apple is preparing well for malware.
Am I the only one seeing Norton and other 3rd party antivirus companies dying on the Mac platform? I'm pretty sure Mac OS X will eventually have full-on built-in antimalware.
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Sadly, I have to use it for Minecraft and a few random web apps. It's not bad considering that it's made to work on every platform, which implies some inefficiency, but it's much worse than a real x86 UNIX program!
Am I the only one seeing Norton and other 3rd party antivirus companies dying on the Mac platform? I'm pretty sure Mac OS X will eventually have full-on built-in antimalware.
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What? Minecraft? lol
Java is inherently awful. If you need to use it... I am very sorry
Sadly, I have to use it for Minecraft and a few random web apps. It's not bad considering that it's made to work on every platform, which implies some inefficiency, but it's much worse than a real x86 UNIX program!
Security and stability of a system should be more important than letting developers be lazy and create crap software that is horrible across all systems.
Java's "write once, run everywhere" never materialized into anything decent.
I really don't know why you're bothering to explain Java to us like it's 1999. Maybe you're an android dev?
Remove Java and Flash? NOPE. How 'bout you get Click2Plugin so you can still have the plugins but choose when to use them?
And wouldn't removing Flash also make it not work in Chrome?
And are you sure that the accusative plural of "crisis" is "crisii"? I don't think it is.
That's because they're too busy with iOS, iPhone's, iPad's, and integrating iOS features such as "Game Center" into iOS X - err, I mean OS X.
Java is really only good for little apps that you run on mobile phones and stuff. I don't see why developers can't just compile the same thing for each major PC OS... there are only 2 (I wouldn't count Linux as a major PC OS, more of a server OS).
But you gotta hand it to them, Java is good for web apps. The number of non-web apps that use Java is small, which is good. I don't see what alternative there is to Java for web apps besides HTML5 (which I don't know much about).
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I dunno, man. They used Unix based mainframes at Isla Nublar, and look how that turned out.