I personally used this method to make sure my girlfriend’s Mac was not infected, and it worked like a charm. Furthermore, the company notes that it “released a Java update on Apthat fixes the Java security flaw for systems running OS X v10.7 and Mac OS X v10.6” - the most recent versions of the operating system.Īntivirus vendor F-Secure was the first to publish instructions on how to check whether a Mac OS X system is infected with the latest Flashback variant and how to manually remove it. In response to these recent attacks, Apple posted a support document on its site addressing that the company is “developing software that will detect and remove the Flashback malware.” This software will be required to remove Flashback from systems that are already infected. Flashback is the most widespread malware on the Mac OS X platform to date.
Macs have recently been the target of a widespread malware program called “Flashback.” Two antivirus companies, Doctor Web and Kaspersky Lab, independently confirmed on Wednesday and Friday, respectively, that well over 600,000 Mac computers have been infected with the latest variant of the Flashback Trojan horse.
