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Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome? Lion?

From Rob Friefeld <someone@verizon.net>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome? Lion?
Date 2012-04-08 10:59 -0700
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In article <2vCdnZ7ns8AN2R3SnZ2dnUVZ_umdnZ2d@giganews.com>,
 Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:

> Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome as well?
> Does the Flashback trojan affect browsers under Lion?
> 
> I executed this in terminal
>    defaults read /Applications/Chrome.app/Contents/Info LSEnvironment
> 
> and got a file does not exist error.  But I'm not sure that's a valid 
> test.  (I just used the same test as for Safari and substituted Chrome).

Yes, it affects Chrome. The problem is Java, not the browser. The latest 
update from Apple is supposed to fix the vulnerability. As for testing 
for affliction, so far so good. 

Look at TidBITS:  http://tidbits.com/article/12918

> That said, detection comes down to issuing the following defaults read 
> commands in Terminal (F-Secure suggests only the first and last; the others 
> extend the technique from Safari to Google Chrome, Firefox, and iCab). In 
> each case, if you see ³does not exist² at the end of the response from each 
> command, you are not infected. (The defaults read command is entirely safe ‹ 
> it¹s just attempting to determine whether some data exists in the Info.plist 
> file within each application package.)

> defaults read /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info LSEnvironment 
> defaults read /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/Info LSEnvironment 
> defaults read /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/Info LSEnvironment 
> defaults read /Applications/iCab\ 4/iCab.app/Contents/Info LSEnvironment 
> defaults read ~/.MacOSX/environment DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES

Rob Friefeld

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Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2012-04-07 09:43 -0400
  Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2012-04-07 08:30 -0700
    Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2012-04-07 11:46 -0400
      Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2012-04-07 09:04 -0700
        Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2012-04-07 13:59 -0400
          Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? *Hemidactylus* <ecphoric@hotmail.com> - 2012-04-07 18:43 -0400
            Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-04-07 23:01 -0400
              Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? *Hemidactylus* <ecphoric@hotmail.com> - 2012-04-07 23:26 -0400
                Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-04-08 14:14 -0400
              Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-04-08 14:12 +0200
              Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2012-04-09 16:36 -0400
    Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Kurt Ullman <kurtullman@yahoo.com> - 2012-04-07 12:05 -0400
      Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2012-04-07 09:07 -0700
        Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Leonard Blaisdell <leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> - 2012-04-07 22:32 -0700
          Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2012-04-08 23:01 +1200
  Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2012-04-07 08:59 -0700
    Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2012-04-07 13:56 -0400
      Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2012-04-07 11:18 -0700
        Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2012-04-08 10:17 +1200
          Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2012-04-07 19:53 -0400
            Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-04-07 23:04 -0400
              Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2012-04-07 23:40 -0400
                Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2012-04-08 16:32 +1200
                Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-04-08 14:18 -0400
                Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2012-04-08 17:40 -0400
                Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-04-08 19:56 -0400
                Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2012-04-08 22:36 -0400
                Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-04-09 00:32 -0400
                Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-04-09 09:21 +0200
                Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2012-04-09 11:37 -0400
                Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2012-04-09 14:48 -0400
                Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2012-04-09 15:33 -0400
                Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-04-09 21:41 -0400
                Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2012-04-10 17:36 -0400
                Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-04-10 23:15 -0400
                Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-04-09 21:42 -0400
                Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-04-09 21:37 -0400
                Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2012-04-10 17:35 -0400
                Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-04-10 23:19 -0400
                Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-04-11 10:40 +0200
                Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2012-04-10 17:36 -0400
        Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2012-04-08 09:07 -0400
  Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? *Hemidactylus* <ecphoric@hotmail.com> - 2012-04-07 19:05 -0400
    Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-04-08 00:24 +0100
    Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2012-04-08 16:32 +1200
  Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Rob Friefeld <someone@verizon.net> - 2012-04-08 10:59 -0700
    Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2012-04-09 16:26 -0400

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