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To: clean86 who wrote (130535)	4/9/2012 7:36:24 PM
From: Lahcim Leinad	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 213176

I found Flashback in my DVD drive. Now what? ;-)

To: clean86 who wrote (130535)	4/9/2012 8:41:23 PM
From: Zen Dollar Round	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213176

Here's a link to a Mac Flashback find and remove tool: macupdate.com I have anti-malware software and ran a scan from terminal so I haven't tried this one. If you read through the comments on that page, you'll see that the author of it, Moritz Wette, has jumped the gun a bit in his description of the software. He responds at MacUpdate saying as much. It does not remove the Flashback trojan, as he claims he needs to test on an infected computer in order to modify his software to do so. I find it somewhat unlikely that he'll be able to when so far no one has been able to produce a freeware removal tool. It supposedly will detect an infection, but that's it. This piece of malware is apparently morphing so quickly it is hard to track, with nearly 20 variants found so far. Let's be careful out there...