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Flashback trojan reportedly controls half a million Macs and counting

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Just ran the "defaults read /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info LSEnvironment" script in the Terminal Window and it return "File Does Not Exist"

I guess my iMAC is clean then - right?

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TomServo said:
Just ran the "defaults read /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info LSEnvironment" script in the Terminal Window and it return "File Does Not Exist"

I guess my iMAC is clean then - right?

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That definitely is a plus. You now have to run
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defaults read ~/.MacOSX/environment DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES
in Terminal. If you get another error, you are all clear.

There is however talk that the trojan installs into your default browser however so I'm not too sure on how that goes, you can perhaps do some more reading around. I haven't bothered because I'm pretty sure I am clean.
 
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madwolfe said:
That definitely is a plus. You now have to run
Code: 
defaults read ~/.MacOSX/environment DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES
in Terminal. If you get another error, you are all clear.

There is however talk that the trojan installs into your default browser however so I'm not too sure on how that goes, you can perhaps do some more reading around. I haven't bothered because I'm pretty sure I am clean.
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It came back Does Not Exist too.

Thanks so much.

Tom
 
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Wonder where this magical figure of over 600,000 infected machines comes from originally? Doubt that I would trust a Russian AV software company!
 
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harryb2448 said:
Wonder where this magical figure of over 600,000 infected machines comes from originally? Doubt that I would trust a Russian AV software company!
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I was wondering this too. How do they tell/know that 600k computers are infected?
 
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I was wondering this too. How do they tell/know that 600k computers are infected?
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I downloaded the sophos program that OSXdaily suggested.

Lo and behold…I am now "safe" from 3.5 million separate "threats" per their claims.

I had no idea Macs were so insecure.

;-)
 
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My friend installed Sophos and his computer is noticeably slower.
 
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I was wondering this too. How do they tell/know that 600k computers are infected?
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It's very likely bogus. Read Randy Singer's latest post to the Anti Virus Sticky thread.
 
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My friend installed Sophos and his computer is noticeably slower.
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Yeah I just tried it out to see what it looked like. Turned off. Come on, protection from 3 1/2 million Mac viruses.

LOL.

So it is now in the trash.
 
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Hi

The thing to remember about Sophos is that so far I think it is only Mac compatible Anti VIrus software to look for both Mac and PC viruses/malware.

This should help make sure that your Mac does not become a carrier for PC viruses and malware.

I know that since the beginning of this year it has found about three PC related viruses that came in through one of me email IMAP services into a bulk/spam mail folder.

Enabling me to track them down and get rid of them.

Hope this helps a little
 
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Cheers for the idiot guide instructions - thankfully, my iMac is clean.
 
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I dont have it on any of my machines running tiger, leopard, snow leopard, or lion. I dont see how people could have gotten it .
 
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A report I came across on Twitter said that it is now down to 270,000 infections. I really really want to know how they came across these numbers.
 
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Stretch said:
A report I came across on Twitter said that it is now down to 270,000 infections. I really really want to know how they came across these numbers.
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What does that mean, "down to" ? Were they wrong about the initial number, or are they supposedly keeping track of those who "disinfect"? I'm finding this more and more amusing.

Doug
 
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What does that mean, "down to" ? Were they wrong about the initial number, or are they supposedly keeping track of those who "disinfect"? I'm finding this more and more amusing.

Doug
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That's supposed to be the new number after people have disinfected their computers.
 
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Stretch said:
That's supposed to be the new number after people have disinfected their computers.
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See, that right there tells me a lot. What a joke! Ain't nuthin' like determining the legitimacy of a supposedly wide spread infection ( of which the actual detrement has yet to be proven) by monitoring the amount of downloads which people have been scared into!

Doug
 

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