Apple Developing Tool To Remove Flashback

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday April 11, 2012 @01:31AM from the macs-can't-get-viruses dept.

Trailrunner7 writes, quoting Threatpost: "Apple is planning to release a software fix that will find and remove the Flashback malware that has been haunting Mac users for several months now. ... Apple said on Tuesday that it was in the process of developing a tool that would detect and remove Flashback, but the company did not specify when the fix would be available. Security researchers and customers have been questioning why Apple hasn't yet provided a fix for the malware even though Flashback has been around in one form or another for more than six months now."

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Re:Slow is good by JDG1980 · 2012-04-11 01:42 · Score: 0, Troll

if it was Linux based malware a patch would have been out within 24 to 48 hours
And it would have required editing a text configuration file and then running the patch from the command line, and it wouldn't work on a wide variety of common hardware, and whenever someone brought up these issues the response would be "RTFM n00b."