{"id":47748,"date":"2012-04-13T09:32:56","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T07:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=47748"},"modified":"2012-04-13T14:05:04","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T12:05:04","slug":"apple-releases-flashback-malware-removal-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/47748-apple-releases-flashback-malware-removal-tool.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple releases Flashback malware removal tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342717-Apple-inc\">Apple<\/a> has released an integrated tool to remove the Flashback malware from over 600,000 infected Mac systems.<\/p>\n<p>The tool became available as part of a security update to Java, two days after Apple announced it was working on a way to remove the information-stealing malware.<\/p>\n<p>Flashback is designed to steal passwords and other information from Mac users through their web browser or other applications. The malware masquerades as an update to <a title=\"Adobe Systems\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/364802-Adobe\">Adobe<\/a> Flash, tricking users into downloading and installing it.<\/p>\n<p>Apple claims that the removal tool gets rid of \u201cthe most common variants\u201d of the malware, as well as disabling automatic execution of Java applets on web pages.<\/p>\n<p>Russian antivirus company Dr Web discovered the malware earlier this month, with other security firms such as <a title=\"Kaspersky Lab\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/333634-Kaspersky-Lab\">Kaspersky<\/a> and <a title=\"Symantec\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/286761-Symantec\">Symantec<\/a> verifying how widespread the infections are.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"Cnet news site\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13579_3-57413316-37\/apples-flashback-malware-remover-now-live\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cnet.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A removal tool for the Flashback malware has been released by Apple two days after it was announced<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":24671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2556,605,10486,10488,1595,801,411],"class_list":["post-47748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-adobe","tag-apple","tag-dr-web","tag-flashback","tag-kaspersky","tag-malware","tag-symantec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47750,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47748\/revisions\/47750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}