Yosemite Will Not Adobe Mac OS X Lion

The trojan primarily targets Mac OS X Lion users, since Apples latest desktop operating system doesnt come with Flash preinstalled.

Once installed, Flashback.C first checks to see if the user is running Little Snitch, a firewall program that could alert the user of its actions.

F-Secure notes that the remote host is up but it does not yet push anything.

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If and when the site becomes active, it could deliver a payload that the trojan could use to disable the systems auto-updater, using Safari or Firefox to deliver the malicious code via an LSEnvironment variable that loads when the browser restarts.

Somewhat ironically, users can install the Flash Block app from the Mac App Store, which for 99 cents, offers to temporarily kill active Flash content to conserve battery life, or to block Flash entirely.

Beside Ive yet to see someone being infected by those proof of concept wimpy trojan.

I suspect that some day we will be getting anti virus programs as a standard part of OS X.

Although anti virus programs are already out its still not so well known.

Heres what you can expect to see coming to Apples flagship wearable on September 15.

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