Hi , my article today is More than 600,000 Macs in the world have been infected with the virus, how to fix it ? , in fact this information has been circulating since last year but it would not hurt if I share this information again to your particular Mac users who don’t know it..
A Russian antivirus company , Dr . Web announced that as many as 550,000 in the world have been infected Mac Flashback trojan . Then an hour later Ivan Sorokin , a Malware Analyst Dr . Web ngetweet that as many as 600,000 Macs in the world have been infected with Flashback , and 274 of them are at Apple headquarters in Cuppertino .
Dr. Web also reported that 57 percent of the infected Mac Flashback is in U.S. and 20 percent are located in Canada .
what is Flashback Virus ?
Flashback has installed itself automatically into the Mac at the moment you visit a website that contains the virus . After Flashback installed itself into your Mac , then the Flashback will steal all information about accounts you have such as Google , eBay and PayPal.
Flashback also injects code into your Mac to attack the browser software that create unstable conditions for use . The person behind the virus to take advantage by stealing the username and password information that we have , but in a way that is irresponsible.
but it has been known that the latest variant of Flashback was only attacking users who still use the old version of the Java Runtime . Apple itself also has provided the latest update for the Java Runtime and fix the weaknesses that exist in the old version of the Java Runtime .
To find out if your Mac has been infected with Flashback on your mac , please follow these steps:
Go to Terminal of Mac and then tpye:
defaults read /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info LSEnvironment
if appears the message like this:
The domain/default pair of (/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info, LSEnvironment) does not exist , then you must type:
defaults read ~/.MacOSX/environment DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES
if the above steps have been done, and there is a message like this:
The domain/default pair of (/Users/joe/.MacOSX/environment, DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES) does not exist . congratulations, your Mac is safe from Flashback Virus.
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