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TheJournal.ie supports the work of the Press Council of Ireland and the Office of the Press Ombudsman, and our staff operate within the Code of Practice. “According to some sources, links to more than four million compromised web-pages could be found on a Google SERP at the end of March,” Dr Web said in a release. The trojan virus – a type of software which claims one purpose but in reality carries out another, more malicious one – is thought to have originated on a number of Russian streaming and gaming websites, and been distributed from there.

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The security scare is unusual for Mac users, who are rarely targeted by malicious viruses as their authors ordinarily target the more popular Microsoft Windows.Īn analysis carried out by the anti-virus company, Dr Web, suggested that Irish Mac users accounted for 0.1 per cent of the estimated number of victims. The ‘Flashback’ trojan, identified by a Russian anti-virus software manufacturer, is thought to have infected around 550,000 machines running the operating system around the world. USERS OF THE OS X operating system for Apple Mac computers have been advised to download the latest software updates for their machines in order to safeguard themselves from a newly-discovered virus.
