Apple will be releasing a tool that will take care of the trojan for you. If you’d like to take care of it yourself, it’s not too hard, but it does involve using Terminal, which is not something we recommend most clients to use without guidance. If needed, we can connect to your Mac remotely from our office, or we can send a tech to your location for help with removal. If it turns out that you have been infected, just give us a call for help removing the Trojan.
Flashback malware removal tool software#
Then, click the “Check for Flashback Infection” button and let the software check your Mac. Just download the Flashback Checker from Github, unzip the package, and open the application. Now there is a free application you can download to see if your Mac is infected. There were some ways you could check to see if you had the Trojan via Terminal, but that’s not super user friendly. While virus issues on Macs are rare, the crew at MacMedics has already encountered the Flashback Trojan several times. Apple has already issued two Java updates to combat the vulnerability. The Flashback Trojan has now infected more than 600,000 Macs according to recent news reports. You can download the application called “Flashfake Removal Tool” at this link: Īlso, users of OpenDNS can’t get the virus
Flashback malware removal tool update#
Update 4/11/12 Kaspersky has released a free Flashback removal tool. F-Secure has a script that will remove the trojan, and that can be found here. There was no mention of it on their site this morning, but I downloaded it last night. It appears that Kaspersky has quietly removed their tool. This update is recommended for all Mac users with Java installed.
If the Java web plug-in detects that no applets have been run for an extended period of time it will again disable Java applets. Users may re-enable automatic execution of Java applets using the Java Preferences application. This update also configures the Java web plug-in to disable the automatic execution of Java applets. This Java security update removes the most common variants of the Flashback malware. Update 4/12/12 Apple has now released Java for OS X 2012-003 and it is now available thru software update.