If you’ve yet to upgrade to Mac OS X 10.6 or Mac OS X 10.7, there’s some good news.
Per Macworld, Apple on Monday released a pair of security updates for the older operating system: Leopard Security Update 2012-003 and Flashback Removal Security Update.
The Leopard Security Update disables older versions of Adobe Flash Player that don’t contain the latest security updates, prompting you to upgrade instead. That mirrors an update Apple offered for Safari on Snow Leopard and Lion last week.
The Flashback Removal Security Update finds and removes the most common variants of that malware; the updater may need to restart your Mac to complete the removal of any malware.
Both updates are available directly from Apple’s website or via Mac OS X’s Software Update feature and require Mac OS X 10.5.8 to install and run.
If you’ve tried the updates/malware removal tools and have any feedback to offer, please let us know in the comments.
One reply on “Apple releases Flashback removal tool for Mac OS X 10.5.x operating systems”
So they can back port the tool to detect if you have the trojan, although that is non-essential as several alternative methods exist, but they can’t/won’t update Java on Leopard machines to close the vulnerability? I realize this tool probably took them a trivial amount of effort vs Java, but why bother if you’re not going to solve the problem?