Apple Pushes Software Update to Finally Fix Flashback Trojan Vulnerabilities on Mac [Recommended]

Author: Patrick on April 13, 2012

Mac users have been threatened with a new Flashback Trojan for the past few weeks. Various third party apps have been provided in order to diagnose and remove the trojan from infected systems. Infecting over 600,000 Macs, it is clear that Apple is not about to turn a blind eye on this particular threat. And lo and behold, Apple has just pushed out an update for the OS X that aims to once and for all fix Flashback Trojan vulnerabilities.



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Apple Releases Java Update 2012-003 to Remove Flashback Trojan

For the third time in two weeks Apple has released an update to Java for Mac to combat the Flashback Trojan that has infected millions of Macs around the world.  The latest update, 2012-003 was release just a bit ago and is available via Software Update.

The 66MB update removes “most common variants of the Flashback malware” and also disables automatic execution of

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Forum roundup: Flashback Trojan still prevalent?

01200updated 02:45 pm EDT, Fri April 13, 2012 Current forum topics

Yesterday in the MacNN forums Junior Member porrid asks if the Flashback Trojan is still prevalent after downloading some questionable files, read more here. Also yesterday Forum Regular wetstuff started a thread looking for ways to transfer files from 10.7 to an older computer, join in here.One Dedicated MacNNer started a discussion about Apple's best operating system after voicing their opinion about their favorite versions of OS X. This week forum members discuss unstable YouTube playback when using Safari, read more here. Forum goer idontlikelionosx started a thread earlier this week looking for some help with Preview launching very slowly.

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