ID: IRCNE2012041461
Date: 2012-04-07
According to "computerworld", Dr. Web, the same Russian security firm that's been tracking the scope and scale of the Flashback malware's spread worldwide, now has a free, Web-based utility that will tell you if your machine has been compromised, and is -- in fact -- plugged into the botnet network.
In order to do this, it cross-checks your Mac's unique hardware with its own database of machines that have been compromised. If it doesn't find your machine, you're in the clear.
The process does include a very mild amount of tooling around your machine's System Information utility to find your Mac's UUID number, then copying and pasting it into a Web form, but that's all that's needed.
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