The Flashback malware infecting Mac computers is not in decline according to Dr Web, the Russian security firm who first revealed the extent of infected machines.<\/p>\n
The company has estimated that there are still 650,000 unique OS X<\/a> machines currently infected with the malware.<\/p>\n These results are in stark contrast to a report released by security firm Symantec<\/a>, which showed the number of infected machines has dropped from over 500,000 down to just 140,000.<\/p>\n Following the latest Dr Web information, Symantec have released an update to their results, claiming that their servers \u201care receiving limited infection counts\u201d for the malware.<\/p>\n Dr Web estimates that a total of 817,879 bots have been a part of the botnet since the security firm started monitoring it on 4 April. On 16 April, 717,004 unique IP addresses and 595,816 Mac unique user IDs reported being part of the botnet.<\/p>\n