Stealthy Botnet Bug Infects Macs, PCs, Linux Machines

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A sophisticated Java-based Trojan herds Macs, PCs and Linux machines alike into cyberattack-launching botnets.

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[tuxitca]

"On Mac OS X and Linux, it modifies the launchd and init.d files"Yeah, good luck with that. How many people do you think run their browser as root anyway?

 

[Marie978]

Should I un-install Java then? How do I do that?

 

[iamtracyanne]

quote:: "On Mac OS X and Linux, it modifies the launchd and init.d files"Yeah, good luck with that. How many people do you think run their browser as root anyway? ::quoteIn addition most Linux installs these days run a Free open Source implementation of Java, such as IcedTea. Not Oracle's Java, which has to be downloaded from Oracle, unlike IcedTea, which comes pre installed, and is updated automatically via the Package management system.

 

[NickyHelmkamp]

Paul- fantastic article! We just wanted to let you know that we included it in our Monthly Resource Roundup http/www.interworx.com/community/monthly-round-januarys-best-administration-hosting-security-enterprise-content/