Flashback Removal Tool For Mac
Just updated Firefox on Mac OS Sierra 10.12.6 and I used the 2012 F-Secure Flashback Removal Tool v1.0.2 applescript app and got the message that I was infected. I suspect this is a false-positive so I didn't opt to remove it and aborted the script. A Mac developer has posted a tool that detects a Flashback malware infection on Apple's computers. The tiny tool -- it's just a 38KB download -- was created by Juan Leon, a software engineer at. Mac OS X, version 10.3 and earlier: uninstall_flash_player_osx_10.2.dmg (1.3 MB) (updated 05/27/08) Choose Window > Downloads to view the downloaded uninstaller. Save the uninstaller file in a convenient location. F-Secure the Antivirus company have come up with a Flashback removal tool to make this process much easier for any users. Just download and double click on the file to complete the removal of flashback trojan from your mac.
A Mac developer has posted a tool that detects a Flashback malware infection on Apple's computers.
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The tiny tool -- it's just a 38KB download -- was created by Juan Leon, a software engineer at Garmin International, the Kansas-based company best known for its GPS devices.
Ars Technica first reported on Leon's FlashBack Checker.
The tool spots the malware by automating a tedious process first described by security firm F-Securelast month. F-Secure's procedure required entering multiple commands in Terminal, the Mac OS X command line utility.
When Flashback Checker is run, it displays 'No signs of infection were found' or provides additional information if it does detect changes the malware has made to the Mac.
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Unlucky users can scrub Flashback from their machines using commercial security software -- both French vendor Intego and Finland's F-Secure offer free 30-day trials to their Mac antivirus products -- or use the complex instructions posted by the latterhere.
According to Dr. Web, the Russian security company that was the first firm to quantify Flashback infections, nearly 2% of all Macshave been hit by the malware.
Dr. Web used a different technique to detect Flashback than Leon. Rather than examine the Mac itself, Dr. Web's tool compares the UUID (universally unique identifiers) of a machine to the list of UUIDs of infected Macs it compiled after commandeering a hacker command-and-control (C&C) server.
Flashback has been in circulation since last September, but only in the last several weeks has the malware been installed silently via 'drive-by' attacks that rely on exploiting a just-patched vulnerability in Oracle's Java.
Apple quashed the Java bug on April 3, or seven weeksafterOracle had patched the vulnerability for Windows and Linux users.
Flashback Checker had been downloaded nearly 36,000 times from the github source code repository as of 4 p.m. ET Monday.
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This story, 'Free Tool Detects Flashback Mac Malware ' was originally published by Computerworld.