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NOT EVEN ONE CONFIRMED INFECTION YET OUT HERE. Still looking around, of course...

Frankly, I think it really doesn't exist in the wild. I think we are seeing a concentrated spoof attack on these servers... perhaps orchestrated FUD??? I have yet to find ANYONE with a confirmed infection! I have over 200 clients with Macs... all running bare... and not one has had an infection. There should be at least two.

I have not seen one on the major news media comment sections, except the obvious trolls who don't even know how to spell Mac. . . claiming their MACs were infected, or others feigning bitterness that their $3000 and $4000 iMacs they bought to avoid virus infections were a waste of money because they are now infected and how they were going to buy a much more economical and powerful Windows 8 computer for their next computer for under $500!

What I have seen are numerous people using the Terminal commands or the now ubiquitous downloadable Flashback check programs, reporting their machines are "CLEAN!" Not even once have I seen someone post, "I ran the check and found my computer was infected!"

I gotta admit, Swordmaker, this is looking more and more like a fraud, for the purpose of... what? Hoping to drive Apple's stock price down? Preparation for Windows 8 launch? or just some stupid A/V researcher getting bored and deciding to kick up some dust?

Here's my current take on it:

The Java vulnerability is very REAL.
The vulnerability is exploitable and malware exists that uses it.
Apple took an inordinately long time to produce an appropriate security update.
Somebody decided it was an opportunity to attack Apple and announced a huge botnet.

I actually hope that it's either REAL (i.e. that there are real infected Macs out there), or that it's an HONEST mistake.

Because the only other possibility -- that the A/V community has stooped to fabricating huge, worldwide lies -- is extremely troubling. These are the people we trust our computers to, to keep them safe. WTF???!?!!!!