“Apple recently asked a web registrar, Reggi.ru, to shut down a domain belonging to the Russian security firm Dr. Web, the latter company’s CEO has revealed,” MacNN reports.
“Boris Sharov says the registrar informed him about the request on Monday,” MacNN reports. “Apple’s reasoning was that the domain was being used as a command-and-control server for computers infected with the Flashback Trojan.”
MacNN reports, “Sharov notes, though that the domain is actually hosting a ‘sinkhole,’ a spoofed C&C server used to monitor computers linked in the Flashback bonnet.”
Read more in the full article here.
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Ha… happy to hear this.
Dr. Web sucks. Hope Apple removes them from the AppStore also and discontinues the Safari plug-in , too.
Does this mean Apple won’t be using the Beatles’ “Back In The USSR” for the theme song at the next product launch? Come see why 1984 won’t be like 1984 🙂
Considering that Kaspersky, Evernote, Cut The Rope and even Google’s Sergey Brin come from USSR, there are causes for this song like everywhere everyday. ;))
You mean to say that Evernote is a commie? Blah, down with the commie’s.