Since the discovery last month of the Flashback Trojan having infected more
than 600,000 Mac OS X, Apple and several security firms have
released tools to help detect and clean up Flashback infections.
Dr.Web, the Russian antivirus vendor that first sounded the alarm
about the outbreak, has published a free online service that lets users tell
whether their systems have been seen phoning home to Flashback's control
servers (those servers have since been hijacked by researchers). The service
requires users to enter their Mac's hardware unique user ID (HW-UUID), because
this is how the miscreants who were running the botnet kept track of their
infections.
F-Secure, the Finnish security firm that worked with Dr.Web to
more accurately gauge the true number of Flashback-infected Macs, has a Flashback Removal Tool available for
download from its website.
Apple released its own Flashback Trojan removal tool on
Friday, after advising it was working on it.
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