Are you having a (Mac) Flashback? | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it

On Monday, I provided steps on how to avoid your Mac being compromised by the Flashback trojan. Today I will provide information on how to locate a Flashback infection.

 

To better understand the steps below, it is better to also know a bit about Flashback. It's an OS X malware family that modifies the content displayed by web browsers. To achieve this, it interposes functions used by the Mac's browsers.

 

The hijacked functions vary between variants but generally include CFReadStreamRead and CFWriteStreamWrite: read more...