Please quit bashing Macs. It gets tiresome.
Coming on the thread to gloat about a story that is weeks old (Swordmaker warned us not to download from a pop-up back in February, if I remember right).
I don’t get the hostility from PC enthusiasts toward thos of us who prefer Macs. There must be some deep insecure anxiety in their precious liitle hearts.
Happy Mac user since the original IIe.
You must be joking. I'm regularly called a Macbot for my defense of Apple against untrue attacks.
Swordmaker, help me out here! :)
Jacquej, you misunderstand. I've had Macs since 1984 (and worked on an Apple ][ and Lisa before that). I like Apple's hardware products -- they make terrific workstation platforms and virtual machine hosts. I run OS-X on them along with Win7, XP, Linux, and NetBSD. I'm typing this on a MacBook, which is sitting next to my iPad, and I'm listening to the stereo playing MP3s off my iPod Touch. The Mac Mini (bootcamped Snow Leopard and Win7) is presently turned off. The older PPC Mini which runs Fedora 10 Linux is likewise off at the moment.
AHEM.
Now with all the above said, I refuse to stick my head in the sand, either. This particular attack based on Java vulnerabilities seems to have escaped Apple's attention for long enough that it got pretty widespread. That's a new thing.
I'm not going to deny that one of the main reasons I use OS-X as my personal favorite interactive operating system is that it is quite robust against malware. (The other reason is that it's based on BSD Unix, my favorite system OS.)
But I'm also not going to deny that ALL operating systems can have vulnerabilities, and that those problems require addressing in a timely fashion.
Meanwhile, I found these pages useful to determine whether one is infected, and what to do about it.
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/trojan-downloader_osx_flashback_i.shtml
Run the following in Terminal:
defaults read /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info LSEnvironmentIf you see other stuff, follow the instructions on the linked page above to clean it out.If you're not infected you should see:
The domain/default pair of (/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info, LSEnvironment) does not existdefaults read ~/.MacOSX/environment DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES
If you're not infected you should see:
The domain/default pair of (/Users/rff/.MacOSX/environment, DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES) does not exist