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How do I know if I get a dialog box to update Flash is legit?

April 23, 2012

Adobe Flash Player Install Manager (the application) checks for updates automatically, and will present you with a window asking if you want to continue with the install. That’s a legitimate application from Adobe. If you see something that looks like a Flash Player install window, and the app name is not exactly Adobe Flash Player [...]

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How can you secure files you send or share?

April 19, 2012

One question I’ve heard a lot recently is “how can I securely send or share files, so only the person intended can read them?” One solution is Dropkey, currently available on the Mac App Store for $19.99. Check here to see the web site and download a trial, and let me know how you like [...]

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How do you know if a Flash Update notification is legit?

April 19, 2012

MacFixIt’s Topher Kessler has a great post addressing this. I highly suggest you read it carefully. In part: if you are browsing the Web and see a notice pop up about the need to update Reader, there are several things you can do. 1. Do not trust it Immediately be skeptical of any automatic software [...]

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Checking for the new SabPub malware in OS X

April 16, 2012

Exerpted from MacFixIt This new minimum-threat malware development for OS X copies Flashback and suggests criminals jump on opportunistic bubbles. Recently the Flashback malware attacks on OS X gained headlines, not because of the presence of the Trojan, which had been around for some months prior to the increase in attention, but rather because it [...]

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Another Java trojan for Mac discovered, this time through Microsoft Word

April 16, 2012

from tuaw.com 04.16.12 Just days after Apple released its official Flashback trojan patch, another Java trojan has been discovered that could possibly infect Macs. The trojan is known as “LuckyCat.” As Kaspersky Lab Expert Costin Raiu explains in a blog post (see my previous post), LuckyCat takes advantage of an exploit in Microsoft Word that [...]

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Java update from Apple contains Flashback removal tool

April 13, 2012

Apple promised, and they delivered. The latest updates to Java, Java for OS X Lion 2012-003 and Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 8, contains the removal tool, as well as disabling automatic execution of Java applets by default. You can choose to renable automatic applet execution if you choose… after a while (not [...]

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Flashback Removal Tool Available

April 12, 2012

F-Secure released a free tool to detect and remove the Flashback trojan. Download it here. Anti malware software can remove the trojan, and the upcoming tool from Apple will as well, but this is the first free remedy specifically for the Flashback trojan that does not require use of Terminal.

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Apple Developing a Flashback Removal Tool

April 11, 2012

Last night Apple announced that they are developing a tool to remove the Flashback trojan that I’ve posted about several times. Apple released an update to Java on April 3 for Snow Leopard and Lion (10.6 and 10.7) to patch the vulnerability… if you haven’t run Software Update recently, do. It’s important to keep your [...]

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More good information about Flashback trojan and Java vulnerability

April 9, 2012

AppStorm Mac has a very cogent article posted this morning with even more good info about the Flashback trojan and various ways to be protected. I found the following to be very helpful… it seems that having some kind of malware protection will prevent infection from the start. After you visit a compromised website, FlashBack [...]

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Flashback trojan info, and a detection app

April 8, 2012

Auto-installing Flashback trojan varient infecting Macs worldwide First, I’d like to mention that while the news media is making a lot of the Flashback trojan and the “600,000″ infections worldwide, the number may be suspect, and even if true, is less that 1% of Macs in use. Second, while the Flashback trojan is a serious [...]

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