Mac infected by Botnet

[Bl0ckHe1d]

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2166228/600-infected-macs-botnet

Any truth to this story? If yes how do fix it? If no then cool!

 

[stridemat]

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2166228/600-infected-macs-botnet

Any truth to this story? If yes how do fix it? If no then cool!

Could be true, might not be. However it does say that it has been patched by Apple.

As always keep your software up to date.

 

[BrianBaughn]

I think Apple's Java Security Update prevents the vulnerability but doesn't "fix" an machine that has been "afflicted".

F-Secure is a good source of info on the problem.

 

[geoffreak]

TLDR:

Run the following two commands in Terminal. If you get "The domain/default pair... does not exist" for both, you're clean.

defaults read ~/.MacOSX/environment DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES
defaults read /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info LSEnvironment

 

[snberk103]

TLDR:

Run the following two commands in Terminal. If you get "The domain/default pair... does not exist" for both, you're clean.

defaults read ~/.MacOSX/environment DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES
defaults read /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info LSEnvironment

Good advice. Just to clarify, run the 1st line.... then run the 2nd line. In both cases you should get a ".... does not exist..." message.

 

[28Gauge]

TLDR:

Run the following two commands in Terminal. If you get "The domain/default pair... does not exist" for both, you're clean.

defaults read ~/.MacOSX/environment DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES
defaults read /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info LSEnvironment

Thanks for your post! It looks like I'm clean.

 

[derbothaus]

The only unclean Mac's are owned by the security experts presumably.

 

[GGJstudios]

This is being discussed here: 600,000 Macs Worldwide Reportedly Infected by Flashback Trojan