Glad to hear that the Java update issue has been settled (more or less), and that my Terminal guesstimate of the Flashback detection for Firefox was correct. I had run it myself before posting, but since it's a read command a negative result doesn't necessarily mean much.

It's perhaps good to mention again that an additional measure of protection against these variants is afforded by the presence of certain utilities, mostly of the anti-malware or packet sniffer kind. That may not last (and it won't work if you fall for the trojan's request for your password), but at least it's there now for those who are not offered a Java update.


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