{"id":1818,"date":"2012-04-05T02:54:37","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T02:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/blurts\/?p=1818"},"modified":"2012-04-12T14:08:25","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T14:08:25","slug":"check-mac-for-trojan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/blurts\/2012\/04\/05\/check-mac-for-trojan\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Mac for Trojan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/apple\/news\/2012\/04\/flashback-trojan-reportedly-controls-half-a-million-macs-and-counting.ars\">Ars Technica post<\/a> indicates that you Mac may have picked up a trojan. Evidently this may be one of the reasons you were notified of a java update a few days ago.<\/p>\n<p>I ran the test on one machine to check it out. The responses the terminal commands generated came back to indicate no problems. If you are concerned about this issue or even running the check, you might do a little looking around to see what you think.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/blurts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/mactest.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1819\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/blurts\/2012\/04\/05\/check-mac-for-trojan\/mactest\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/blurts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/mactest.png\" data-orig-size=\"490,162\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"mactest\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/blurts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/mactest.png\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1819\" title=\"mactest\" src=\"http:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/blurts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/mactest.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/blurts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/mactest.png 490w, https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/blurts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/mactest-300x99.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>P.S. &#8211; Since my original post, another way to check for this problem has surfaced. My link here is to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/1166278\/free_flashback_checker_finds_out_if_your_mac_is_infected.html\">recommendation from MacWorld<\/a>. I have not downloaded and try this app.<\/p>\n<p>Apple has recognized this <a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT5244\">problem<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_1818\" class=\"pvc_stats all  \" data-element-id=\"1818\" style=\"\"><i class=\"pvc-stats-icon medium\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" data-prefix=\"far\" data-icon=\"chart-bar\" role=\"img\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 512 512\" class=\"svg-inline--fa fa-chart-bar fa-w-16 fa-2x\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M396.8 352h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V108.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v230.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zm-192 0h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V140.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v198.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zm96 0h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V204.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v134.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zM496 400H48V80c0-8.84-7.16-16-16-16H16C7.16 64 0 71.16 0 80v336c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h464c8.84 0 16-7.16 16-16v-16c0-8.84-7.16-16-16-16zm-387.2-48h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8v-70.4c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v70.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8z\" class=\"\"><\/path><\/svg><\/i> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/blurts\/wp-content\/plugins\/page-views-count\/ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Ars Technica post indicates that you Mac may have picked up a trojan. Evidently this may be one of the reasons you were notified of a java update a few days ago. I ran the test on one machine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/blurts\/2012\/04\/05\/check-mac-for-trojan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_1818\" class=\"pvc_stats all  \" data-element-id=\"1818\" style=\"\"><i class=\"pvc-stats-icon medium\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" data-prefix=\"far\" data-icon=\"chart-bar\" role=\"img\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 512 512\" class=\"svg-inline--fa fa-chart-bar fa-w-16 fa-2x\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M396.8 352h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V108.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v230.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zm-192 0h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V140.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v198.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zm96 0h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V204.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v134.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zM496 400H48V80c0-8.84-7.16-16-16-16H16C7.16 64 0 71.16 0 80v336c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h464c8.84 0 16-7.16 16-16v-16c0-8.84-7.16-16-16-16zm-387.2-48h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8v-70.4c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v70.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8z\" class=\"\"><\/path><\/svg><\/i> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/blurts\/wp-content\/plugins\/page-views-count\/ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-1818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1s9GG-tk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/blurts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/blurts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/blurts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/blurts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/blurts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1818"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/blurts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1821,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/blurts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions\/1821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/blurts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/blurts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/blurts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}