Mac Malware Outbreak Is Bigger than 'Conficker' (pcworld.com)

This is a very misleading title.

That's weird, an article about Macs that isn't being up-voted fervently. (I kid, I kid.)

Interestingly enough, by "bigger" they just mean that a larger percentage of Macs are infected compared to the percentage of Windows machines that were infected by Conficker (when compared to the total number of machines in use on each side).

Stupid linkbait headline (on the source, submitter is not to blame). Their first paragraph clarifies:

(...) the Flashback Trojan botnet is even bigger than the massive Conficker botnet… relatively speaking.

That's all there is to this "article".

I take issue with one of the claims in this article, 'Apple isn’t to blame for the threat. The vulnerability is in Java, not Mac OS X' if Apple decides to ship a component with their OS (as they do with Java) and takes responsibility for upgrading the components - then it is their blame if they delay the patch for a month and allow all these additional machines to be infected.

Hopefully we'll see a 'malware removal' patch from Apple in the next five days or so.

A lot of these reports are based on data from Russian antivirus vendor Doctor Web. Does anyone have any information on Doctor Web, and how valid their counting methods are?