Following the Flashback attack, which rendered approximately 600,000 Macs vulnerable, Apple is working to create an adequate patch – antivirus that will be released in the coming days.
Flashback is the name of a malware that has been heavily attacking numerous Mac machines worldwide for several days: it is estimated that at least 600,000 systems have already been infected. The number is expected to rise, at least until an adequate antivirus is found that can corner the virus, usually disguised behind a very simple download window of seemingly reliable software.
Flashback has, therefore, immediately presented itself as an unprecedented threat to Apple Macs, even though this virus has been circulating on the web for over a year.
For this reason, Apple has decided to act quickly and has publicly announced that a patch release will be made in the coming days to close the vulnerability through which Flashback infiltrated machines born in Cupertino’s labs.
While for Macs equipped with the operating system Snow Leopard or Lion the update will be automatic, the situation – and the solution – for older systems will be different: in the latter case, a manual procedure will be required to install the patch first, followed by malware removal.
If, however, you wish to act independently before Apple releases the official update, in order to contain the problem from the first signs of the Flashback malware, then one of the possible solutions is Flashfake, a tool from Kaspersky released for free.
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