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Remove Adobe Flash Manager Osx Mac Malware Found

Remove Adobe Flash Manager Osx Mac Malware Found

You may opt-out by clicking here Edit Story Feb 9, 2017, 07:58am EST New Mac Malware Found Hiding In A Fake Adobe Flash Update Lee Mathews Senior Contributor Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own.

Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Suppose youre surfing and suddenly you see a notification that software on your computer needs to be patched.

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Sounds urgent, right You dont want to be wandering the Web with outdated software, and you might be inclined to click through the update process without a second though.

Researchers found the MacDownloader malware hiding inside a fake Adobe Flash update installer.

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Once MacDownloader has your password it tries to establish a connection to a remote server so that it can transmit data.

What kind of data The contents of your Keychain: usernames, passwords, PINs, credit card numbers.

The remote server it tries to connect to has been taken offline, so theres nothing controlling its activities at the moment.

Its quite likely, however, that its authors will fix the flaws that security researchers discovered in its code (and poorly-written dialogues) and release an updated version.

Press command and space bar to bring up Spotlight, then type in Flash Player and click on the system preference for it.

Lee Mathews Lee started writing about software, hardware, and geek culture around the time that the Red Wings last won the Stanley Cup.

When hes not catching up on tech news or blogging about it, you can find him watching or playing baseball and doing his part to ensure the next generation of geeks is raised properly.

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