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What’s the Worst the Mac Flashback Trojan Could Do?

April 11, 2012

What’s the Worst the Mac Flashback Trojan Could Do?

By: Samantha Murphy, Mashable

News that more than 650,000 Mac computers were infected with a nasty Trojan horse virus called “Flashback” circulated the web last week and many scrambled to check if their systems were clean.

Although many updated Apple’s security update to prevent the Flashback Trojan from exploiting infected computers and others took steps to eliminate the malware from their systems all together, there are still thousands of infected Mac computers out there.

So what is the worst it could do?

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What’s the Worst the Mac Flashback Trojan Could Do?

What’s the Worst the Mac Flashback Trojan Could Do?
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