Friday, 15 August 2014

Flashback Trojan for OSX (& how to fix)


old news apparently still growing...caused exploit in un-patched java...

careful out there- http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2...controls-half-a-million-macs-and-counting.ars

manual disinfection instructions (http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/trojan-downloader_osx_flashback_i.shtml)


code:
disinfection    manual removal instructions    1. run following command in terminal:     defaults read /applications/safari.app/contents/info lsenvironment     2. take note of value, dyld_insert_libraries  3. proceed step 8 if got following error message:    "the domain/default pair of (/applications/safari.app/contents/info, lsenvironment) not exist"     4. otherwise, run following command in terminal:     grep -a -o '__ldpath__[ -~]*' %path_obtained_in_step2%     5. take note of value after "__ldpath__"  6. run following commands in terminal (first make sure there 1 entry, step 2):     sudo defaults delete /applications/safari.app/contents/info lsenvironment     sudo chmod 644 /applications/safari.app/contents/info.plist     7. delete files obtained in steps 2 , 5  8. run following command in terminal:     defaults read ~/.macosx/environment dyld_insert_libraries     9. take note of result. system clean of variant if got error message similar following:     "the domain/default pair of (/users/joe/.macosx/environment, dyld_insert_libraries) not exist"     10. otherwise, run following command in terminal:     grep -a -o '__ldpath__[ -~]*' %path_obtained_in_step9%     11. take note of value after "__ldpath__"  12. run following commands in terminal:     defaults delete ~/.macosx/environment dyld_insert_libraries     launchctl unsetenv dyld_insert_libraries     13. finally, delete files obtained in steps 9 , 11.
 



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