{"id":392,"date":"2012-04-10T10:13:38","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T17:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/?p=392"},"modified":"2012-04-14T15:24:12","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T22:24:12","slug":"mac-flashback-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/2012\/04\/10\/mac-flashback-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac Flashback Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This MacWorld article &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/1166254\/what_you_need_to_know_about_the_flashback_trojan.html#lsrc.rss_news\" title=\"Overview of Flashback Mac Malware\" target=\"_blank\">What you need to know about the Flashback trojan<\/a>&#8221; provides an overview of this malware and the associated risk.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Flashback is the name for a malicious software program discovered in September 2011 that tried to trick users into installing it by masquerading as an installer for Adobe Flash.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cnet&#8217;s MacFixIt followed up with several articles on this malware, discussing how to check your computer and what to do next:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-27076_3-57410654-248\/web-tool-checks-if-your-mac-is-flashback-free\/?part=rss&#038;tag=feed&#038;subj=MacFixIt\" title=\"Check your Mac\" target=\"_blank\">Web tool checks if your Mac is Flashback-free<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/reviews.cnet.com\/8301-13727_7-57410604-263\/how-to-reinstall-os-x-after-malware-infection\/?part=rss&#038;tag=feed&#038;subj=MacFixIt\" title=\"Starting from a clean slate\" target=\"_blank\">How to reinstall OS X after malware infection<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/reviews.cnet.com\/8301-13727_7-57410096-263\/how-to-remove-the-flashback-malware-from-os-x\/?part=rss&#038;tag=feed&#038;subj=MacFixIt\" title=\"How it works and how to remove it\" target=\"_blank\">How to remove the Flashback malware from OS X<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-27076_3-57410050-248\/mac-flashback-malware-what-it-is-and-how-to-get-rid-of-it-faq\/?part=rss&#038;tag=feed&#038;subj=MacFixIt\" title=\"What it is, whether you have it, and how to get rid of it\" target=\"_blank\">Mac Flashback malware: What it is and how to get rid of it (FAQ)<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This MacWorld article &#8220;What you need to know about the Flashback trojan&#8221; provides an overview of this malware and the associated risk. Flashback is the name for a malicious software program discovered in September 2011 that tried to trick users into installing it by masquerading as an installer for Adobe Flash. Cnet&#8217;s MacFixIt followed up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[30,22],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-news","tag-mac","tag-malware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}