A Mac developer has posted a tool that detects a Flashback malware infection on Apple's computers. Last week we posted about, More than 600000 Macs system infected with Flashback Botnet. That's slightly more than 1 percent of all 45 million Macs in the world still a relatively small number, but a worrisome one for Mac users, as the tally of infected machines continues to grow
Apple has released new security updates that check for and remove the common Flashback malware variants.
I highly encourage Snow Leopard and Lion users to run Software Update and get the official Apple tool.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5247
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Flashback checker runs the tests described in the F-Secure Bulletins:
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/trojan-downloader_osx_flashback_i.shtml
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/trojan-downloader_osx_flashback_k.shtml
Download Flashback Checker 1.0: https://github.com/downloads/jils/FlashbackChecker/FlashbackChecker.1.0.zip
**Note** This utility checks and reports the presence of Flashback malware,
it does _not_ remove it!
No affiliation with F-Secure.
Supports 10.5 and up, PPC and Intel clients.
Juan I. Leon
April 6th, 2012
