Curiously, there have been no further reports (that I've seen) about whether the March 8 shutdown of the FBI operated servers will be allowed to continue.

It should be noted that the servers operated by the FBI do not spread the malware. They only provide a means by which persons already infected may continue to access the internet so that they can have a chance to get rid of it.

It should also be noted that the malware in this case only needs to fake a URL, and affects browsers rather than Operating Systems, so the assumption that "Macs are invulnerable" is probably NOT JUSTIFIED.

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In a somewhat similar case, a recent US court decision stated that warrants are required to install GPS tracking devices on someone's vehicle, so the FBI was forced to turn off tracking of some 3,000 GPS devices. Since without tracking of the devices the FBI can't find them to remove them, they've also petitioned for permission to turn the tracking back on so that they can get their toys back. As with the above, no news on whether the court has responded to allow them to retrieve those toys.

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On a somewhat different subject, Symantec has reported that an unknown "someone" has hacked the hacking program widely used by the "Anonymous Group" so that very large numbers of people who downloaded the program that allows their computers to participate in DDoS attacks by Anonymous may now be infected with a separate trojan that's busy sending all their own personal information to some unknown malware site. News Report Here.

John