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Jeff Campbell
04-16-2012, 09:30 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.macworld.com/article/1166387/apple_offers_standalone_flashback_removal_tool.html#lsrc.rss_main' target='_blank'>http://www.macworld.com/article/116...l#lsrc.rss_main</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Still stressed about the Flashback Trojan horse, that insidious bit of Mac malware that has infected hundreds of thousands of computers?"</em></p><p><img height="131" src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/at/auto/1334601595.usr105634.jpg" style="margin-left: 206px; margin-right: 206px;" width="188" /></p><p>Well, if you were waiting for Apple to come out with something to fix it instead of <a href="http://www.applethoughts.com/news/show/148491/no-need-to-panic-more-about-the-flashback-trojan.html" target="_blank">going at it yourself</a>, your wait is over. Apple released their own tool called the <a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1517?viewlocale=en_US&amp;locale=en_US" target="_blank">"Flashback Malware Removal Tool"</a> which will remove the "most common" variants of the virus.&nbsp;</p>