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Will Infected Macs Dampen Apple's Stock?

By Stephanie Jordan
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April’s reappearance of a Flashback variant—the most recent being Flashback.C, which masqueraded as an update to Adobe Flash Player and discovered last fall—is too recent to have any impact on this week’s Apple earnings reports and stock reaction, but one wonders if this crack in the oft-cited “more secure platform” that Apple has enjoyed will change in the future.

Published April 27, 2012

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