How to Find and Remove Mac Flashback Infections
Summary: The Flashback Trojan was found to have infected more than 600,000 Mac OS X systems, and Dr.Web, the Russian antivirus vendor that first raised the alarm, published a free online service that checks a Mac's hardware unique user ID against records of systems phoning home to the botnet's control servers. Apple said it was developing software to detect and remove Flashback but had not released it or added detection to the XProtect antivirus tool built into OS X, and its advisory focused on urging users to apply a recent Java update for the flaw Flashback attacks.
What you should know: More than 600,000 infected Macs is the number to sit with, and Apple's own built-in XProtect tool could not detect the malware at the time, so detection and cleanup fell to third-party tools from Dr.Web and F-Secure.
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