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To: Cogito who wrote (130534)4/9/2012 7:24:58 PM
From: clean86   of 154358
 
Here's a link to a Mac Flashback find and remove tool:

macupdate.com 

I have anti-malware software and ran a scan from terminal so I haven't tried this one.

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To: clean86 who wrote (130535)4/9/2012 7:36:24 PM
From: Lahcim Leinad   of 154358
 
I found Flashback in my DVD drive. Now what? ;-)

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To: Lahcim Leinad who wrote (130536)4/9/2012 8:06:54 PM
From: clean86   of 154358
 
Didn't help with my Flashback either but at least you could get another DVD.

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To: clean86 who wrote (130537)4/9/2012 8:17:23 PM
From: Lahcim Leinad   of 154358
 
OT: I'll just put that drop on the sugar cube and forget about the flashback. ;-)

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To: Lahcim Leinad who wrote (130536)4/9/2012 8:21:58 PM
From: J.F. Sebastian   of 154358
 
I found Flashback in my DVD drive. Now what?

I would open the DVD drive, extract the DVD and break it into several pieces or shred it, if possible.

A DVD infected with that nasty piece of work should never be allowed near another DVD drive. That way, no one else will be infected with it.

That is the only safe thing to do, for everyone's protection.

Kiefer Sutherland would want it that way. :-)

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To: J.F. Sebastian who wrote (130539)4/9/2012 8:23:33 PM
From: Lahcim Leinad   of 154358
 
OT: Done. Should I smoke it or sniff it after I pulverized it? ;-)

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To: Lahcim Leinad who wrote (130536)4/9/2012 8:25:29 PM
From: Cogito   of 154358
 
OT

>>I found Flashback in my DVD drive. Now what? ;-)<<

I found Flashdance in mine, which is even worse.

By the way, I just got a call from some scam artists who told me they were calling about my Windows computer, and that they had been getting some error messages from it. I could hear a whole bunch of other voices in the background.

They said they believed it had an infection. I was trying to play along, acting gullible and shocked, to see if I could get some method of identifying them, when the connection dropped suddenly.

I haven't had an active Windows computer in several years, now.

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To: Lahcim Leinad who wrote (130540)4/9/2012 8:25:37 PM
From: J.F. Sebastian   of 154358
 
OT

Either one, Dennis Hopper would want it that way. :-)

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To: J.F. Sebastian who wrote (130542)4/9/2012 8:34:54 PM
From: Lahcim Leinad   of 154358
 
OT: Put on your helmet, going for a ride...


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To: clean86 who wrote (130535)4/9/2012 8:41:23 PM
From: J.F. Sebastian   of 154358
 
Here's a link to a Mac Flashback find and remove tool:

macupdate.com 

I have anti-malware software and ran a scan from terminal so I haven't tried this one.

If you read through the comments on that page, you'll see that the author of it, Moritz Wette, has jumped the gun a bit in his description of the software. He responds at MacUpdate saying as much.

It does not remove the Flashback trojan, as he claims he needs to test on an infected computer in order to modify his software to do so. I find it somewhat unlikely that he'll be able to when so far no one has been able to produce a freeware removal tool. It supposedly will detect an infection, but that's it.

This piece of malware is apparently morphing so quickly it is hard to track, with nearly 20 variants found so far.

Let's be careful out there...

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