If this happened to a client I’d be in full “fix this now mode”. Luckily, it’s my site, and I can laugh and know I need to fix it. My apologies for the spam on the Contact page. And perhaps elsewhere. Fix is in progress (perhaps slowly).
I’m looking forward to reading it.
There’s a new trojan aimed at Mac users. There’s more here at Apple Insider. It’s a good idea to uncheck “Open safe files after downloading” in Safari’s preferences.
On the fourth our friends took us out to a beautiful island. It was very foggy and the sun occasionally came through from above.
From AppleInsider, I see that the MacDefender people have responded to Apple’s security update from earlier in the week.
Here’s a story in Macworld about the update. After getting two or three more calls from clients with this “Mac Defender” junk, it will be interesting to see what happens next. For anyone using OS X, running software update would be a good idea.
Via John Gruber a good piece at Macworld concerning the recent malware attacks on Mac OS X.
I haven’t had any more calls about this since I last posted. Hopefully this won’t change with this new development.
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/05/25/latest_mac_defender_malware_attacks_mac_os_x_without_password.html
Apple release Knowledge Base article on Mac malware…
I’ve now had three clients call with this malware installed. Short article here at AppleInsider about this too