{"id":4414,"date":"2012-04-07T10:09:06","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T10:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/?p=4414"},"modified":"2017-06-30T11:57:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T18:57:50","slug":"forbes-looks-at-the-flashback-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/forbes-looks-at-the-flashback-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"Forbes Looks at the Flashback Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes has been looking at the Flashback malware, with two articles, one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/adriankingsleyhughes\/2012\/04\/05\/why-you-should-install-antivirus-on-your-mac\/\">discussing the fact that 600,000 Macs are infected<\/a>, and another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/adriankingsleyhughes\/2012\/04\/06\/mac-flashback-trojan-are-you-infected-how-do-you-remove-it\/\">discussing ways of detecting and blocking it<\/a>, which highlights <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/virusbarrier\">Intego VirusBarrier X6<\/a>. Coverage of this malware has reached the mainstream media, as Mac users around the world are worried about this unprecedented attack on Macs. For more on the Flashback malware, as well as other malware that targets Macs, see the articles in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/category\/malware\/\">malware category<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes has been looking at the Flashback malware, with two articles, one discussing the fact that 600,000 Macs are infected, and another discussing ways of detecting and blocking it, which highlights Intego VirusBarrier X6. Coverage of this malware has reached the mainstream media, as Mac users around the world are worried about this unprecedented attack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-4414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-security-news","tag-mac-malware"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Forbes Looks at the Flashback Malware - The Mac Security Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Forbes has been looking at the Flashback malware, with two articles, one discussing the fact that 600,000 Macs are infected, and another discussing ways\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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