Flashback ..

I don't know about anybody else, but I don't need more drama in my life.  I read the CNET article about Flashback a couple of days ago and went googling for a detection/solution artilce that could be implemented by a non-geek... much frustration.  Went to the Sophos board and found nothing recent.   Spent a half-hour on the phone with Apple and got precisely nowhere (natch).  

 I eventually found a poor (the Russian website) and a good (a user-written script) detection method; it appears my systems are clean.

However, it would have been a great blessing if Sophos had simply put a little item on the main webpage saying something like "If you have Sophos installed, you can relax, we took care of the Flashback problem on [give date] and are continuing to monitor for variants that might threaten your system."  Or, if necessary, "Flashback is written by some very clever and aggressive psychopaths, and we're working on it; make sure to update your malware definitions every day."

Plea to Apple and also to Sophos: Denial and Avoidance do not help people.  And giving some proper info doesn't even cost much.

Things are not going to get better in the malware area.  Can we have a little help here?

I don't know about anybody else, but I don't need more drama in my life.  I read the CNET article about Flashback a couple of days ago and went googling for a detection/solution artilce that could be implemented by a non-geek... much frustration.  Went to the Sophos board and found nothing recent.   Spent a half-hour on the phone with Apple and got precisely nowhere (natch).  

 I eventually found a poor (the Russian website) and a good (a user-written script) detection method; it appears my systems are clean.

However, it would have been a great blessing if Sophos had simply put a little item on the main webpage saying something like "If you have Sophos installed, you can relax, we took care of the Flashback problem on [give date] and are continuing to monitor for variants that might threaten your system."  Or, if necessary, "Flashback is written by some very clever and aggressive psychopaths, and we're working on it; make sure to update your malware definitions every day."

Plea to Apple and also to Sophos: Denial and Avoidance do not help people.  And giving some proper info doesn't even cost much.

Things are not going to get better in the malware area.  Can we have a little help here?