USA Today: Secure your Mac from Flashback infection

4/6/2012
By Rob Pegoraro

Question: What's the best way to keep my Mac safe from the Flashback Trojan that has been in the news?

Answer: Flashback is technically not a trojan-horse application at all, but a "drive-by download" that infects computers by exploiting a vulnerability in Web software.

That makes it much worse than a trojan: You just need to visit a malicious site, without downloading the wrong app or entering an admin password, to have this program silently take command of your Mac and begin altering the content of Web pages.

That also sets Flashback apart from all of the other Mac viruses you might have heard about over the last few years. But it wasn't hard to see something like this happening.

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