Saturday, April 7, 2012

Are you vulnerable to Flashfake Mac OS X Botnet Trojan Attack?

Russian antivirus company and Kaspersky Lab confirmed that half a million Macs had been infected with zero-day-exploiting Trojan. Out of that more than half of the devices are in USA. Is your computer also infected? If so what can you do?
How Flashfake Mac OS X Botnet Trojan Distribute and Works?  
According to Kaspesky Lab it distribute via infected websites as a java applet that pretented to be an update for the Adobe Flash Player. Then it run the first stage downloader and install the main component of the trojan. Then it connects to a command and control server and download and execute new components.

Can Flashfake Mac OS X Botnet Trojan Attack other OS?


 Yes. Even through more than 98% of the infected computer's operating system is Mac OS 10.x T, there is a slight chance of infecting the other operating systems like FreeBSD, Linux and Windows 7 or Windows 8.

What you need to do to prevent Flashfake Trojan?


 Apple has already released the Java update to fix dozen of security flaws.The update applies to Mac OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard, and OS X 10.7, better known as Lion. Visit the Apple support site for more information about this update. Download the critical patch released by Oracle patched that Java vulnerability.

How to remove Trojan-Downloader:OSX/Flashback.I


 If your computer is infected with the Trojan downloader visit the Step by step guide to manually remove it. or You can re install the OS X and start it from a clean slate. This step by step guide will give you a clear approach and help you may need in this process.
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