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June 10, 2014
Question

How do I check that the flashplayer installed onto my Mac is a geniune Flashplayer?

  • June 10, 2014
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System Using

Macbook Pro 2010, with OS X Mavericks 10.9.03

Version of flash

14.0.0.125 (updated by the official website "get adobe . com" )

After getting popups from http update4.new-flash-players.us

on some occaision (some video sites as dailymotion and blogs

with advert/commerical videos at the bottom)


and reading  about the possibility of the Flashback Trojan,

I have become very paranoid about my flash player.

Although I didn't install it from the update4news-flash website

I have become paranoid about if I have a genuine copy of flash-player installed.


I have followed the instruction on an article from the  "cult of mac" to

type in specific commands on the terminal app but found no sign of infection.


How do I double check if the copy I have currently installed onto my mac

and browser is genuine?


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    pwillener
    pwillener
    Legend
    June 11, 2014

    These fake sites will most likely install a genuine Flash Player from Adobe, but will attempt to drive-by load malware to users' systems.

    Only download Flash Player installers from adobe.com or macromedia.com websites!

    Here you can always find the latest installer for Mac OS: http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/current/support/install_flash_player_osx.dmg

    P.S. getting pop-ups from such fake sites indicate that you already have some sort of malware on your system.

    R
    RamenAuthor
    Participant
    June 11, 2014

    Thank you for your reply

    Sorry the  "pop-ups" wasn't the right word to use.

    "re-directing" was the right word, the browser will turn grey in blogs saying that

    "this page cannot be displayed, to display you need to install a new version of flashplayer"

    (This is not always, just once in a while and I have never had these problems on websites

    like Youtube, or my banking websites, google searching etc)

    and in Dailymotion the browser will attempt to redirect into the flash-us (which will be then blocked by avast)

    ( I haven't attempted to use the website)

    I have run scripts downloaded from The Safe Mac,

    http://www.reedcorner.net/arg/

    and found no infections, (but as you have said, if they have used a drive-by load into the system I guess it's useless)

    I also have run these commands on my terminal following instructions on this website

    How to remove the Flashback malware from OS X - CNET

    defaults read /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info LSEnvironment

    defaults read /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/Info LSEnvironment

    defaults read ~/.MacOSX/environment DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES

    (ALL 3 came back with "does not exist")

    So How can I identify and remove the malware if I was infected? (I have backups of my data on the time-machine so formatting my whole drive

    is the last resort I rather not take)

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