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By running these commands in the Terminal, if you see 'does not exist' as part of the output then your system is not infected.Р”Р„s with previous variants of the malware, the latest variant of the Flashback malware, called OSX/Flashback.I, works by modifying code within Web browsers that causes it to launch when the browsers are opened and result in modified Web pages being displayed.

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If you do this and find Java is required for some of the applications you use, then be sure you have the latest version (currently available via Software Update if you have Java installed). By doing this, any threats that attempt to take advantage of Java will not work. If you do not use Java on your system, then you can avoid these threats by disabling it in your Web browser, and also by doing so in the Java Preferences utility in your Applications/Utilities/ folder (uncheck any Java runtime listings in the utility to disable them). OS X does not come with Java installed by default, and the latest versions of Java should be patched properly so anyone with new or properly updated systems should be safe from these threats however, there are likely many people still running older versions of Java on their systems that are still vulnerable.

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Initially this malware was only an OS X installer file that was disguised as Flash Player, but in February of this year, another variant of this malware was found that attempts to take advantage of Java security holes to install without requiring user interaction or being detected. This malware, which has been distributed in fake installer application for the popular Adobe Flash Player plug-in, works by modifying the code in Web browsers to launch the malware when they are run, and then try sending information on visited Web pages to remote servers. While these attempts are relatively easy to avoid, security company F-Secure has been monitoring a more serious threat from the Flashback malware for OS X.

The malware's initial variants included offensive political material, but in its recent iteration has been distributed disguised among a collection of cover girl images in an obvious attempt to trick people into opening the application. Recently a new variant of the Imuler/Revir Trojan malware for OS X was found being distributed disguised as erotic images that, if installed on a Mac system, would attempt to steal personal information then upload them to remote servers.

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