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Title: Fake Adobe Flash malware seeks to disable Mac OS X anti-malware protection
Post by: HCK on October 19, 2011, 11:00:54 pm
Fake Adobe Flash malware seeks to disable Mac OS X anti-malware protection
         


A new version of an existing Trojan Horse posing as a legitimate Flash Player installer (named “Flashback.A” by a security firm) is designed to disable updates to the default Mac OS X anti-malware protection system, potentially leaving the system open to the manual installation of other malware without any system warnings.

 


 
         

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