Flashback Trojan infection

Both of these websites have tools to detect and repair the Flashback malware:

http://flashbackcheck.com/ and here - http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002346.html

Good luck,

Clinton

This site is slightly more secure for finding out if you are infected as it uses a secure link to enter your UUID

https://www.drweb.com/flashback/?lng=en

However, you already know you are infected.

The second link that clintonfrombirmingham entered is the only one I recommend for removal at this time.

After the trojan is gone, you need to disable Java in all your browsers to keep from being reinfected. You should also keep a watch on all the financial institutions you have visited since being infected to make certain that privacy information was not compromised and consider changing the passwords to all those sites as well as any others that use the same password.

See About the Flashback malware.

(Note that my pages contain links to other pages that promote my services, and this should not be taken as an endorsement of my services by Apple.)

I would use the Apple sites in Thomas' article to remove the Flashback malware. And it gives a very good survey about this malware too.

Actually, none of the Apple solutions will work with Mac OS X 10.5.8. They require 10.6.8 or later.

I cannot argue with that. THX Thomas.

hope this is not a silly question, I just moved to Mac 100% from Windows and linux, but if there are no known viruses for Mac, what does ClamXAV have in its database, what is it looking for?

The oft-repeated "fact" that there are no known viruses for the Mac is a half-truth that obscures the full truth. There is malware for the Mac, though none can be strictly categorized as a virus. For more on this topic, see my Mac Malware Guide. (Note that my pages contain links to other pages that promote my services, and this should not be taken as an endorsement of my services by Apple.)

ClamXav includes definitions for most of those, plus most Windows malware as well.

It is looking for the same things as in windows. Malware may well be there on a mac but cannot not do any harm, unless you send it to a windows computer.

Use Clamxav or Sophos only to scan manually on a mac, if you want it at all.

There have been a few "trojans" on a mac, and they can be easily eliminated, but there is no protection for a really new malware by having a antimalware program running, even when they update the malware database very fast.

The OS security updates and Java updates give protection for known malware so you do not need an antimalware app.

The OS security updates and Java updates give protection for known malware

Not all known malware, but yes, keeping your system updated is vital in protecting against malware like Flashback that uses vulnerabilities to sneak in without user interaction.

OK I see it. I seem to remember that from my linux days. Thanks.

I do not know. If you go to the kaspersky site by typing in www.kaspersky.com in the address bar, you cannot find the page you give here. If you type flashback in the home page search field it will not bring you anywhere. Thus it looks as if the page you give is a fraud. I would not know what you have to do now, to be certain.

I know, but I don't know whether it is really sure, it misses the Kaspersky certificate for one, but I do not know whether it is really a fraud, but it looks like it might be a fraud. If it is I would not know what to do to contain the danger of having given your uuid. I hope some of our professors come in.