Thank you for the clarification about the "missing" files. If you still have that installer, submit it on our Newest Mac Threats forum here: these installers tend to be fairly quick to stop working as soon as security companies find them. It also might not have installed anything at all. If you ran such a fake Flash installer, you may have installed some more recent threat, most likely a piece of adware or junk software. There have been countless pieces of malware, adware and junk software that have all used the same trick. Note that Flashback was not the first or the last thing to use the fake Flash installer trick. I don't know what that might mean, but I'd be very reluctant to let HouseCall "fix" that problem when it can't even tell you what files it might affect. There's no way this is a current infection.įurther, the File column shown there is blank, which is highly suspicious. No Flashback variants have been seen since 2012. Flashback.A was last seen in 2011, so it's even older than more recent variants of Flashback. That definitely looks like a false positive. My OSX was up to date till yesterday now there is an update I haven't installed yet. What evil is this trojan doing to my computer? And how do I get rid of it? Also, my latest Time Machine and Carbon Copy Cloner backups must also be infected - what do I do about that? Since then, I have scanned several times with Malwarebytes, and thought all was good, until I ran this HouseCall scan. I believe I was using Firefox (up to date), since that is my default browser (although it is slightly possible I was using Safari). It popped up when I was on some web page a week or two ago. I believe I am truly infected - I stupidly allowed a Flash updater that I thought was validly from Adobe. But if I click the Fix now button, nothing happens. If I click Stop, it then shows me a Click "Fix now" page, with OSX_Flashbck_A listed multiple times. Malwarebytes Free (with updated definitions) does NOT detect. My mac - El Capitan - seems to be infected with the Flashback trojan. Endpoint Detection & Response for Servers
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