I apparently got stung with the Adobe flash virus. Now I cannot open any .pdf files from the internet.

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RVBob41 Author

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I apparently got stung with the Adobe flash virus. Now I cannot open any .pdf files from the internet.

I apparently got stung with the Adobe flash virus and now I cannot open any Adobe .pdf files from the internet. Fix?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

Posted on Apr 18, 2012 12:19 PM

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X423424X

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Apr 18, 2012 12:30 PM in response to RVBob41

Go to F_Secure's Flashback Removal Tool web page, download their Flashback trojan detection/removal tool, and follow the instructions you find there.

Also install the latest java update which also tries to remove these trojans.

Java for OS X Lion 2012-003

And only download the adobe flash plugin from the adobe site.

Update:

Just because you cannot download pdf may not be an indication of the trojan. There's been a number of reports about problems like that with pdf's. Look at the More Like This section on the right side of this page.

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